African American & Black

Creating and sustaining a social movement costs money. In the early 1960s, after years of grassroots organizing, civil rights activists convinced non-profit foundations to donate in support of voter education and registration efforts. One result was the...

The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women's experience in the NOI,...

In North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715- 1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as ""negroes,"" ""mulattoes,"" ""mustees,""...

Despite the contributions of enslaved African Americans to our country's economy, culture, and history, records of their existence are all but expunged from plantation sites, which are reluctant to show and interpret the homes and lives of the enslaved...

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "chosenness" into plans and programs for black liberation. During the decades leading up to the...

In the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpse of enslaved life on the South's western margins, focusing on the intersections of land use and agriculture within the daily life and work of bonded...

Their ancestors may have been cargo in the slave ships that arrived in the Port of Charleston, S.C. Today, the scale has been rebalanced: black longshoremen run the port's cargo operation. They are members of the International Longshoremen's Association,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998930046Author Donald Brooks JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Alchemy Media PublishingPublisher Alchemy Media PublishingWeight(grams) 191g

"Our country has enough studies of failure and despair to last several lifetimes. Ferguson and Witcher do something much more interesting in this volume: they examine Black entrepreneurial success-under some of the most challenging conditions-and offer...

Winner of the Alice Hanson Jones Prize, Economic History AssociationA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe civil rights movement was also a struggle for economic justice, one that until now has not had its own history. Sharing the Prize ...

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten...

A sweeping 50th anniversary retrospective of Black Power in America and around the world that accompanies a major exhibit on black power at New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Black Power 50 includes original interviews with key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469666099Author Imani PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North Carolina Press

Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult questions about their identity by looking to the genome. At a time of...

The rise of black radicalism in the 1960s was a result of both the successes and the failures of the civil rights movement. The movement's victories were inspirational, but its failures to bring about structural political and economic change pushed many...

In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children...

Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern...

It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free...

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of black education dates back to...

A voice the world needs the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of Coleman's work that bestselling author Mary Karr has called,...

Featured on The Candace Owens Show podcast Why I Stand highlights the threat of Marxist Socialism to our American culture. The victor will determine the heart, soul, and freedom of our nation for future generations. American Individualism has been the...

If we are to fully understand how slavery survived legal abolition, we must grapple with the work that abolition has left undone, and dismantle the structures that abolition has left in place. Child Slavery before and after Emancipation seeks to enable a...

In August 1955, the mutilated body of Emmett Till-a fourteen-year-old black Chicago youth-was pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Abducted, severely beaten, and finally thrown into the river with a weight fastened around his neck with barbed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316278744Author Clint SmithFormat HardbackImprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company

Few places are more notorious for civil rights-era violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" murders. Yet in a striking turn of events, Philadelphia has become a beacon in Mississippi's racial reckoning...

The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes, we often still write about the South as though people of different races occupied entirely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997094855Author Doctor Bob LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 534Imprint Bob Lee EnterprisesPublisher Bob Lee EnterprisesWeight(grams) 152g

Gettin’ Around examines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in various ways, toward an imaginative reconfiguration of a humanity that transcends entrenched borders of ethnicity and nationhood, while at the same time remaining keenly aware of the...

Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, The Politics of Black Citizenship shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics-it was an effort that...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813080109Author Beverly TomekFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 235g

In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South, Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780744042146Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Publisher DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Weight(grams) 195g

Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who rose to become the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820360362Author Jonathan Daniel WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams)...

When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark Expedition from the point of view of Clark's personal slave, York. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance formed...

An innovative exploration of Black nationalist Marcus Garvey's influence upon the diverse communities of the American West.Book InformationISBN 9781682831274Author Holly M. RooseFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Texas Tech Press,U.S.Publisher Texas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578581705Author Thomas Clarkson ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Hugh T. HarringtonPublisher Hugh T. HarringtonWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226744230Author Robin BernsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983127314Author Vickie Oldham M F aFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Rosalyn Howard, PH.D.Publisher Rosalyn Howard, PH.D.Weight(grams) 363g