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by Karen Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal...
Reminiscences of an Active Life
The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, John Roy Lynch (1847-1939) came to adulthood during the Reconstruction Era and lived a public-spirited life for over three decades. His political career began in 1869 with his appointment as justice of the peace. Within the year, he was elected to the Mississippi...
Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore
The Role of African Americans, 1930s to 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore traces the beginnings and development of commercial poultry production in this very important region. African Americans were mainly involved in poultry production on the labor supply side, which was crucial to the expansion of the industry....
African American History in New Mexico
Portraits from Five Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Although their total numbers in New Mexico were never large, blacks arrived with Spanish explorers and settlers and played active roles in the history of the territory and state. Here, Bruce Glasrud assembles the best information available on the themes, events, and personages of black New Mexico...
Slave Religion
The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years,...
by Robert S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity....
In Search of the Promised Land
A Slave Family in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier...
Black Greek-letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century
Our Fight Has Just Begun
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
During the twentieth century, black Greek-Letter organizations (BGLOs) united college students dedicated to excellence, fostered kinship, and uplifted African Americans. Members of these organizations include remarkable and influential individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr., Congresswoman Barbara...
I'll Find a Way or Make One
A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A comprehensive and definitive guide to America's 107 historically black colleges and universities, this commemorative gift book explores the historical, social, and cultural importance of the nation's HBCUs and celebrates their rich legacy.
Included in this one-of-a-kind collection are:
Detailed...
Gender and Jim Crow
Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Glenda Gilmore recovers the rich nuances of southern political history by placing black women at its center. She explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the...
Without Regard to Race
The Other Martin Robison Delany
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Before Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. He was the first black appointed as a combat major in the Union army during the Civil War. He was a pan-Africanist and a crusader for black freedom...
by Lizzie PRB Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Alachua County�s African American ancestry contributed significantly to the area�s history. Onceenslaved pioneers Richard and Juliann Sams settled in Archer as early as 1839. They were former slaves of James M. Parchman, who journeyed through the wilderness from Parchman, Mississippi. They and others...
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET
Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing...
by Joel Freeman, Don B. Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Return to Glory will challenge everything you were ever taught about human historyBeginning with a careful documentation of the ways God entrusted people of African descent with the initial development of civilized societies, Return to Glory then directs its readers on a magnificent tour of...