African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595911346Author Fawn WeaverFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Melcher MediaPublisher Melcher Media

This dual biography highlights the transformative influence of Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith, two journalists who changed American sport and society through their calls to desegregate Major League Baseball and recognize Black baseball players.In a...

The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States. Struggle for the City recovers the agency and solidarity of African American residents...

For the white man it is almost impossible to comprehend what it took to lift the black man from the state of brutal slavery to his rightful place in society. Indeed, we are still grappling with that problem today. Starting from scratch has new meaning...

This dual biography highlights the transformative influence of Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith, two journalists who changed American sport and society through their calls to desegregate Major League Baseball and recognize Black baseball players.In a...

Located approximately forty miles northwest of Philadelphia, the working-class borough of Pottstown does not immediately come to mind as an influential site of the Black Freedom Struggle. Yet this small town in Pennsylvania served as a significant hub of...

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service,...

Following emancipation, African Americans continued their quest for an education by constructing schools and colleges for Black students, mainly in the U.S. South, to acquire the tools of literacy, but beyond this, to enroll in courses in the Greek and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888960813Author Donald PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Black ThangPublisher Black ThangWeight(grams) 794g

Bounds of Blackness explores the history of Black America's intellectual and cultural engagement with the modern state of Sudan. Ancient Sudan occupies a central place in the Black American imaginary as an exemplar of Black glory, pride, and...

For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by northern emancipation. But hidden in institutional...

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

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013373Author Jasmine BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Stowe Prize 2024. Long-listed for Carnegie Medal 2022 and National Book Award 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780593182994Author Scott EllsworthFormat...

As an age of empire and industry dawned in the wake of American Civil War, Southerners grappled with what it meant to be modern. The fair expositions popular at this time allowed Southerners to explore this changing world on their own terms. On a local,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429095631Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Applewood BooksPublisher Applewood Books

The basis of the 2013 Academy Award–winning film 12 Years a Slave, this is the autobiography of Solomon Northup—an African American man born free in New York state who is tricked, kidnapped, taken to Washington, DC, and sold into slavery.Solomon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646421954Author Polly McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route for a New Orleans slave-auction block in November 1841, nineteen captives mutinied, killing one man and injuring several others. After...

Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers...

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 9780062864369Author Zora Neale HurstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Before the Civil War, free African Americans and fugitive slaves crossed international borders to places like Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean in search of freedom and equality. Beacons of Liberty tells the story of how these bold migrants catalyzed...

Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South. David Stefan Doddington seeks to move beyond...

Slavery's expansion across the globe often escapes notice because it operates as an underground criminal enterprise, rather than as a legal institution. In this volume, Elizabeth Swanson and James Brewer Stewart bring together scholars from across...

On the night of Sunday, October 16, 1859, hoping to bring about the eventual end of slavery, radical abolitionist John Brown launched an armed attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Among his troops, there were only five black men, who have largely been...

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...

Slavery's expansion across the globe often escapes notice because it operates as an underground criminal enterprise, rather than as a legal institution. In this volume, Elizabeth Swanson and James Brewer Stewart bring together scholars from across...

Until recently, Rosa Parks's personal papers were unavailable to the public. In this compelling new book from the Library of Congress, where the Parks Collection is housed, the civil rights icon is revealed for the first time in print through her private...

In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl Named Med was brought to Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property. Learning of the girl's arrival in the city, the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) waged a legal fight to secure her...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870209550Author Ruby West JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

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...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513220154Author W E B Du BoisFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Mint EdPublisher Mint EdWeight(grams) 127g

"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,...