African American & Black

In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600256Author Martha S JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 28mm

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous...

In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice-be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities-has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm,...

Within a few years of the invention of the first commercially successful photography process in 1839, American slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass...

Amidst bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold their families together. This moving book illuminates that struggle through the letters they exchanged. Despite harsh laws against literacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537345Author James G BaskerFormat HardbackPage Count 750Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802875600Author Noel Leo ErskineFormat HardbackPage Count 221Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

A timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well, one of the country's foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and vital new framework going beyond the current debate over this controversial issue. For...

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the...

Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118794Author Ira BerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 138mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511816Author Donovan X. RamseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm)...

2023 PROSE Award in European History“An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.”—Washington Post“Reveals how prestigious natural scientists once sought physical...

Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473599058Author Pat BackleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Pat BackleyPublisher Pat BackleyWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs-many never before seen-as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on America's early frontiers...

A new eight-hour event series based on Roots will be simulcast on the History Channel, Lifetime, and A&E over four consecutive nights beginning Memorial Day, May 30, 2016"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from...

A brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s-"Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who loves a good story...terrific, eminently readable.....

The legacy of the slave family haunts the status of black Americans in modern U.S. society. Stereotypes that first entered the popular imagination in the form of plantation lore have continued to distort the African American social identity. In What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970545503Author Radine AmericaFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Quantum Leapslc PublicationsPublisher Quantum Leapslc PublicationsWeight(grams)...

An inspiring collection of pithy, easy-to-recall one-liners and quotable short passages from historic and contemporary thought leaders throughout the African Diaspora. Famous Black Quotations, first published in 1986, has long been the go-to resource for...

A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001998Author Daina BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

In this "sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend" (Publishers Weekly)-the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world's fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era-"Kranish has done historians and fans a service...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648961083Author David L CraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Princeton Architectural PressPublisher Princeton Architectural PressWeight(grams) 191g

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a damning chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Widespread...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807011683Author Kyle T MaysFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 152g

On the evening of Sunday, 21 August 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched the most famous slave revolt in American history. The rebels caught Southampton whites flatfooted and killed nearly five dozen whites, more than had been killed by any slave revolt...

It's hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for African Americans. Before the Civil War, masters confined their slaves to their property, while free black people found themselves regularly stopped, questioned, and even...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628727371Author William J. MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 1338gDimensions(mm)...

Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and a few Black Panther Party members met at a community...

During the nineteenth century and especially after the Civil War, scores of black abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Moses Roper and Ellen Craft travelled to England, Ireland, Scotland, and parts of rural Wales to educate the public on slavery. By...

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400083114Author Timothy B. TysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062677280Author Margot Lee ShetterlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams)...

During the nineteenth century and especially after the Civil War, scores of black abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Moses Roper and Ellen Craft travelled to England, Ireland, Scotland, and parts of rural Wales to educate the public on slavery. By...

Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the David J. Langum PrizeWinner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Order of the Coif Book AwardWinner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation AwardA New York Times Critics' Top Book of the Year"This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644320Author Harriet JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 10mm