African American & Black

In 1853, traveling was full of danger. Omnibus accidents were commonplace. Pedestrians were regularly attacked by the Five Points' gangs. Rival police forces watched and argued over who should help. Pickpockets, drunks and kidnappers were all part of the...

Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun's plantation house still sits in the middle of campus. From the establishment...

Once the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history. By the early 1960s, the city served as an...

In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many voices, among them, working people, charismatic activists, musicians and artists, the LGBTQIA community,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062981356Author Dick GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

When Alexandria, Virginia's first public library was constructed just a few blocks from his home, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, a young, Black attorney, was appalled to learn that he could not use the library because of his race. Inspired by the legal successes...

This transformative collection advances new approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power. While the anthology highlights...

When African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their military experiences were shaped by the racial environment of the home front. War is often viewed as a...

In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the...

"The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom they deem to be beneath them, in point of character, color, condition, or the superior importance of...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497103979Author Kehinde AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Fox Chapel PublishingPublisher Fox Chapel PublishingWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators, and authors with objects from the...

More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Shadrach Howard, David Ruggles, Frederick Douglass, and others had rejected demands that they relinquish their seats on various New England railroads. They were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982107529Author Chip JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Gallery/Jeter PublishingPublisher Gallery/Jeter PublishingWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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...

An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250831682Author Richard FrishmanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 1497gDimensions(mm) 246mm...

From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541619586Author Walter JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 38mm

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497103986Author Edoardo AlbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fox Chapel PublishingPublisher Fox Chapel PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County, Kentucky. Half carried rifles and shotguns, and a few tucked pistols in their pants. Their...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946511065Author Brandon TerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc.Publisher Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc.

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

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 9780143118794Author Ira BerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 138mm *...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807034521Author Dr. Martin Luther KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place modern readers would least expect, the streets and ports of America's great northern metropolis: New York City.In The Kidnapping Club,...

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 9780593134375Author Victor LuckersonFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 964gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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...

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...