African American category: 7736 books
by Victor McGlothin, Mary Monroe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
A woman lets herself go and finally does something wrong. Down on his luck, a man tries to do something right. For both, the consequences are as surprising as they are rewarding in two tales of lost souls by two rising stars in contemporary African-American fiction.
"Nightmare in Paradise"...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance,...
Going Too Far
Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Ishmael Reed goes too far, again! Just as the fugitive slaves went to Canada and challenged the prevailing view that slaves were well off under their masters, Ishmael Reed has gone all the way to Quebec—where this book is published—to challenge the widespread opinion that racism is no longer a...
Rough Amusements
The True Story of A'Lelia Walker, Patroness of the Harlem Renaissance's Down-Low Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack of lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of one of the most striking social careers in New York's history. The daughter of rags-to-riches multi-millionaire Madame C.J. Walker (the washerwoman who marketed the...
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Including the 1831 "Confessions"
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In the summer of 1831, a band of some forty slaves led by Nat Turner attacked slave-owning residents of Southampton County, Virginia. One of the largest and most violent revolts in the history of the young nation, the rebellion took the lives of some sixty white men, women, and children. An outcry...
Lift Up Thy Voice
The Sarah and Angelina Grimké Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite position as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family in Charleston, South Carolina, for a life dedicated to abolitionism and advocacy of women's rights in the North. After the Civil War, discovering that their late brother had...
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
1818-1913
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
51 speeches by prominent African-American leaders include Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" address, Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?", plus speeches by W. E. B. Du Bois, Fanny Jackson, Rev. W. J. Gaines, and many others.
by Charles J. Elmore Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2002
Pioneering African-American families, spanning generations from slavery to freedom, enrich Savannah's collective history. Men and women such as Andrew Bryan, founder of the nation's oldest continuous black Baptist church; the Rev. Ralph Mark Gilbert, who revitalized the NAACP in Savannah; and Rebecca...
by Ida B. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A shocking and powerful account of lynching written by activist, journalist, and former slave Ida B. Wells
In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice....
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Social Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Essays of the 1960s by a prominent African American voice who “demands rights—not conditional favors” (The New York Times Book Review).
Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and founder of the Black Arts movement, but also as one of the most provocative...
by William Wells Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
The Narrative of William W. Brown ranks alongside Frederick Douglass' memoirs as an influential force in the abolition movement and a lasting testimonial to the injustice of slavery. The simple, straightforward style of Brown's Narrative offers a sincere and moving account of life in bondage, recounted...
by Joel A. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This is the classic story of a multiple day conversation between a Southern racist politician and an eloquent and educated African American. This story is not just about a conversation about race and the equality of all men but it also shows how disagreements can be had in a civil manner, which is important especially in this day and age.
The Won Cause
Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
In the years after the Civil War, black and white Union soldiers who survived the horrific struggle joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest veterans' organization. In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Barbara Gannon chronicles black and white veterans'...
Examining Tuskegee
The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. Susan M. Reverby's Examining Tuskegee is a comprehensive analysis of the notorious...