African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062981288Author Dick GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728259390Author Caseen GainesFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 142mm * 34mm

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)...

Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way beyond what you may have studied in school, digging...

The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142003756Author Peter IronsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 297gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692895290Author Katherine Bankole-Medina Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Liberated Scholars PressPublisher Liberated Scholars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062656551Author Stephen B OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 181g

An inspiring portrait of an overlooked pioneer in Black history and American archaeology The First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, teacher, community leader, and missionary. Born into...

Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea that was sparked and first developed in 1999.Since founding the project, McGill has been touring the country, spending the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473540388Author Pat BackleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Pat BackleyPublisher Pat BackleyWeight(grams) 140g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250868466Author J. C. HallmanFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary-the first Black woman publisher in North America-declared, "break every yoke . . . let the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807008249Author Michael HinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

How did a black child, growing up in segregationist Mississippi during the early 1900s, become the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Corps during the brutal Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935? In this gripping, never-before-told tale, biographer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316492935Author Clint SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company

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...

Hollywood is often thought of-and certainly by Hollywood itself-as a progressive haven. However, in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the film industry grew deeply conservative when it came to conflicts over racial justice. Amid black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501169441Author Richard BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

George Washington's life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon's enslaved workers, who left few written records but made up 90 percent of the estate's population, have been largely left...

The Story Behind an Unsung Event in the Civil Rights Movement"Over eight days, eight students sparked change that defined their lives, changed an institution and fueled a movement that continues today." Alberto Ibarguen, President and CEO of the John S...

There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including...

Driving While Black demonstrates that the car-the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility-has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781635576634Author Kidada E. WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury...

In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues, marked the climax of a Third Reconstruction: a new struggle...

New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the early nineteenth century, slaves made up one third of...

In the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults. Advocating that children's inherent innocence warranted fundamentally different treatment, reformers founded the nation's...

Discover how-and why-Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus's arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter...

As Black oppression moves again to the forefront of American public life, the history of radical approaches to combating racism has acquired renewed relevance. Collecting, for the first time, source materials from a diverse array of writers and...

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...

Now in its second edition, The Routledge Atlas of African American History traces the epic journey of African Americans' four hundred years in North America.With more than 75 full-color maps, charts, and illustrations, this volume illuminates the myriad...