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First Class
The Legacy of Dunbar, Americas First Black Public High School
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public...
by Marcus Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the twentieth century. The Jamaican-born African-American rights advocated dismayed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers....
Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon
The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
New Stories from an Old American Shrine
The home of our first president has come to symbolize the ideals of our nation: freedom for all, national solidarity, and universal democracy. Mount Vernon is a place where the memories of George Washington and the era of America's birth are carefully...
The Fire of Freedom
Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the most significant and stirring black leaders in the South during the Civil War. Throughout his brief, mercurial life, Galloway fought against slavery and injustice....
Milliken's Bend
A Civil War Battle in History and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
At Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, a Union force composed predominantly of former slaves met their Confederate adversaries in one of the bloodiest engagements of the war. This small yet important fight received some initial widespread attention but soon drifted into obscurity. In Milliken's Bend, Linda...
by J.A. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
2014 Reprint of 1924 Edition..Rogers' work was concerned with "the Great Black Man" theory of history. This theory presented history, specifically black history, as a mural of achievements by prominent black people. Rogers devoted a significant amount of his professional life to unearthing facts about...
Body and Soul
The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known...
Infectious Fear
Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines...
Freedom's Main Line
The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Black Americans in the Jim Crow South could not escape the grim reality of racial segregation, whether enforced by law or by custom. In Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, author Derek Charles Catsam shows that courtrooms, classrooms, and cemeteries were not the...
Before Brown
Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
On February 26, 1946, an African American from Houston applied for admission to the University of Texas School of Law. Although he met all of the school's academic qualifications, Heman Marion Sweatt was denied admission because he was black. He challenged the university's decision in court, and the...
Prophets Of Protest
Reconsidering The History Of American Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical...
The Politics of Black Citizenship
Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
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 sought to exploit the ambiguities of citizenship...
Abolitionists Remember
Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important.
In...
We Were There
Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The Greatest Generation meets Bloods in this revealing oral history of the unrecognized contributions of African American veterans.
Award-winning journalist Yvonne Latty never bothered to find out the extent of her father's service until it was almost too late. Inspired by his moving story...