African American category: 7736 books
by Charles Ball
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Charles Ball's simply stated verbal account of the shocking events in his life provides gripping details of Southern slavery before the Civil War. His recollections and observations encompass the manner in which he was treated by planters and slaveholders in Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia;...
Redlined
A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago’s West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands. But Linda Gartz’s parents, Fred...
Framing the Black Panthers
The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
A potent symbol of black power and radical inspiration, the Black Panthers still evoke strong emotions. This edition of Jane Rhodes's acclaimed study examines the extraordinary staying power of the Black Panthers in the American imagination. Probing the group's longtime relationship to the media,...
by Jean Wyatt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison’s Later Novels, Jean Wyatt explores the interaction among ideas of love, narrative innovation, and reader response in Toni Morrison’s seven later novels. Love comes in a new and surprising shape in each of the later novels; for example, Love presents...
Refugees from Slavery
Autobiographies of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In the mid-1850s, Boston abolitionist Benjamin Drew visited numerous Canadian towns, interviewing scores of refugees from Southern slave states and taking notes of what they had to say. For reasons of safety, he protected the identity of his informants and used fictitious names.
Drew's subsequent...
Turning the Wheel
Essays on Buddhism and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
"Were it not for the Buddhadharma, says Charles Johnson in his preface to Turning the Wheel, "I'm convinced that, as a black American and an artist, I would not have been able to successfully negotiate my last half century of life in this country. Or at least not with a high level of creative productivity."...
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works—Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones...
Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination
Innocence by Association
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
The statement, "The Civil Rights Movement changed America," though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren,...
A Stone of Hope
Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it...
For a Voice and the Vote
My Journey with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
During the summer of 1964, hundreds of American college students descended on Mississippi to help the state's African American citizens register to vote. Student organizers, volunteers, and community members canvassed black neighborhoods to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP),...
Martin R. Delany
A Documentary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Martin R. Delany (1812-85) has been called the "Father of Black Nationalism," but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political theorist. Despite his enormous influence in the nineteenth...
by Christopher Claude Verga, African American Museum of Nassau County
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Long Island has been in the corridors of almost all major turning points of American history, but Long Island has been overlooked as a battleground of the civil rights movement. Since early colonization by the English settlers in the 17th century, the shadow of slavery has bequeathed a racial caste system...
Blue Texas
The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when...
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad
Louis Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1996
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam—its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan. Mattias Gardell sets this story...