African American category: 7736 books
Bryan Prince's Underground Railroad 2-Book Bundle
My Brother's Keeper / One More River to Cross
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Award-winning author Bryan Prince portrays the experiences of slaves and former slaves in these compelling histories of the Underground Railroad and American Civil War. This special two-book collection includes:
My Brother’s Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
The stirring...
Freedom Colonies
Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclaimed...
by Thomas Cripps
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 1977
Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes toward African-Americans both in...
by Barbara Sheklin Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2006
Syracuse African Americans abounds with hard work, forbearance, determination, strength, and spirit. It depicts through photographs the heritage of this upstate New York African American community. The story spans several centuries, beginning when escaped slaves made salt here and sold it to the Native...
by John M. Brewer Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2006
African Americans in Pittsburgh chronicles the distinct trends in this African American community. There was never one centralized neighborhood where a majority of the black population lived, and city schools were integrated until after desegregation laws were passed. Photographs captured by famed Pittsburgh...
Shades of Freedom
Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1998
Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania,...
by Elizabeth D. Leonard, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
The story of the black soldiers who helped save the Union, conquer the West, and build the nation.
In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass promised African Americans that serving in the military offered a sure path to freedom. Once a black man became a soldier, Douglass...
Crafting Lives
African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others--played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople...
Black Life on the Mississippi
Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Offering a counternarrative to Twain's well-known tale from...
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...
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...
by Annie L. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The moving testimonies of five African-American women comprise this unflinching account of slavery in the pre-Civil War American South. Covering a wide range of narrative styles, the voices provide authentic recollections of hardship, frustration, and hope—from Mary Prince's groundbreaking account...
African American Folktales
Stories from Black Traditions in the New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the world was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers' reports and...
by Carla J. Jones, Tonya M. Hull
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Giles County was founded on November 14, 1809, and is known as the land of milk and honey. The county is home to over 30 National Register properties, Civil War skirmish sites, a varied cultural heritage, and intersecting Trail of Tears routes (Benge�s and Bell�s). It is also the beginning place...