African American & Black

This exceedingly timely book looks at the history of black activist athletes and the important role of the black community in making sure fair play existed, not only in sports, but across U.S. society. Most books that focus on ties between sports,...

The late Chicagoan George Nesbitt could perhaps best be described as an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift for storytelling. In his newly uncovered memoir-written fifty years ago, yet never published-he chronicles in vivid and captivating detail the...

During the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863, Sgt. William Harvey Carney picked up the fallen flag from his lifeless comrade. He waved the flag for all of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry to see and led the way to the parapet to plant the colors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252044328Author E James WestFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 152g

Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program. In segregated "Negro Units" set up under the FTP, African American...

In addition to a thoughtful selection of the essays, speeches, and autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, this anthology provides an illuminating Introduction; a timeline of Douglass' life; footnotes that introduce individuals, quotations, and...

During the second half of the nineteenth century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the Mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968,...

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...

The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob attacks, and rampant Jim Crow segregation. During these bleak years, Emma Crawford, a young African American woman living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886200355Author Raeghan BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver Sprocket

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600409Author John EisenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 621g

An original history of six generations of an African American family living in Washington, DC Between Freedom and Equality begins with the life of Capt. George Pointer, an enslaved African who purchased his freedom in 1793 while working for George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813196916Author Eric R JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University Press of KentuckyPublisher University Press of KentuckyWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423246978Author David HeadPage Count 6Imprint Quickstudy Reference GuidesPublisher Quickstudy Reference GuidesWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588346063Author Jaco Jaques BoshoffFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645030331Author Jonathan D WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340609Author Walter R Scott SrFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006993Author Kyle T. MaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252044786Author Elizabeth Schroeder SchlabachFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479811083Author Clarence TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952271182Author Joe William TrotterFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint West Virginia University PressPublisher West Virginia University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982115197Author Rebecca HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952536014Author Gretchen and Dennis DulingFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint New Idea PressPublisher New Idea PressWeight(grams) 95g

Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her parentage. She grew up isolated and unsure of who she was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982107536Author Chip JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Gallery/Jeter PublishingPublisher Gallery/Jeter PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252086397Author E James WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588383549Author Ken WoodleyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint NewSouth BooksPublisher NewSouth BooksWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496219435Author Anthony W WoodFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645030393Author Ibram X KendiFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type Books

First published in 1993, Radicalism, Anti-Racism and Representation is a study set within a wider political context for the discussion of ‘racial’ representation and anti-racism. The second half of the book is devoted to interview-based exploration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978826038Author Tara T. GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 140g

Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for “tough on black artists.” But the Theater Owner’s Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry and provided a training ground...

Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord...

Although he is best known as a mentor to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard Thurman (1900-1981) was an exceptional philosopher and public intellectual in his own right. In Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common...

A vivid history of life in Princeton, New Jersey, told through the voices of its African American residents I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and world-renowned...

Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, and...

Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than...

How a coalition of Black health professions schools made health equity a national issue.Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award from the Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle PassageRacism in the US health care system has been deliberately...

On the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton County, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ranks and killing nearly five dozen whites-more than had...

In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance of John Lewis's March trilogy, an ambitious and harrowing account of the devoted black educators who battled Southern school segregation and inequalityAbout the AuthorVanessa...