African American category: 7736 books
Give My Poor Heart Ease
Voices of the Mississippi Blues
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center...
Give My Poor Heart Ease, Enhanced Ebook
Voices of the Mississippi Blues
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center...
River of Hope
Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865--1954
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry, Memphis, Tennessee, was at the forefront of black political empowerment during the Jim Crow era. Compared to other cities in the South, Memphis had an unusually large number of African American voters. Black Memphians sought reform...
A History of Fort Worth in Black & White
165 Years of African-American Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A History of Fort Worth in Black & White fills a long-empty niche on the Fort Worth bookshelf: a scholarly history of the city's black community that starts at the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers, and comes down to today with our current battles over education, housing, and representation...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The year of 1980 marked a pivotal turning point in the American political landscape: the electoral victory of presidential candidate Ronald Reagan; the beginnings of the public hysteria and eventual legislative dismantling of affirmative action and other civil rights initiatives; the dawn of the ruthless...
Chained in Silence
Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid...
Generations in Black and White
Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This portfolio of eighty-three photographs constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten, a longtime patron of black writers and artists, took these photographs over the course of three decades—primarily as gifts to his subjects, such...
Integrated
The Lincoln Institute, Basketball, and a Vanished Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In Integrated, James W. Miller explores an often ignored aspect of America's struggle for racial equality. He relates the story of the Lincoln Institute -- an all-black high school in Shelby County, Kentucky, where students prospered both in the classroom and on the court. In 1960, the Lincoln Tigers...
They Played for the Love of the Game
Untold Stories of Black Baseball in Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A century before Kirby Puckett led the Minnesota Twins to World Series championships, Minnesota was home to countless talented African American baseball players, yet few of them are known to fans today. During the many decades that Major League Baseball and its affiliates imposed a strict policy of...
Uncle Tom or New Negro?
African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and UP FROM SLAVERY 100 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
On the ninetieth anniversary of Booker T. Washington’s death comes a passionate, provocative dialogue on his complicated legacy, including the complete text of his classic autobiography, Up from Slavery.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in 1858, yet roughly forty years later he had established...
Telling Histories
Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study only late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various...
All Bound Up Together
The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women...
Souls
A Genealogical Collection
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
It helps to know where we came from in order to understand ourselves. We have eight branches or four generations in our family tree as far back as our great-grandparents. The author was able to trace her ancestors even further back. Though she knew a lot about her ancestors, she did not know a lot...
Inhuman Bondage
The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill,...