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First Fruits of Freedom

The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900

by Janette Thomas Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010

A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of Freedom chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after the Civil War. Janette Thomas Greenwood...
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Civil Rights Activism in Milwaukee

South Side Struggles in the '60s and '70s

by Paul H. Geenen
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014

In the early 1960s, as members of Milwaukee's growing African American population looked beyond their segregated community for better jobs and housing, they faced bitter opposition from the real estate industry and union leadership. In an era marked by the friction of racial tension, the south side of...
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by Danny E. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012

From the terrible slave identity to the growing racism, marginalization and criticism in the educational, social, health, family and criminal justice systems, African American males have many reasons to shed their tears.
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Huey P. Newton

The Radical Theorist

by Judson L. Jeffries
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

Huey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Panther movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives harp on Newton's drug use and on the circumstances of his death in a crack-related shooting. Liberals romanticize his black revolutionary rhetoric and idealize his message....
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Policing Black Bodies

How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change

by Earl Smith, Angela J. Hattery
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017

From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police violence against Black people are too often in the news. In Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect...
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by Everee Jimerson Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005

Pleasant City, a neighborhood of West Palm Beach, Florida, is the oldest African-American community in Palm Beach County. The first black settlers came to a place called the Styx�later owned by white millionaires who then rented their backyards to black workers�to work on the railroad and Henry Flagler�s...
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by Frederick Burton
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2003

Cleveland's Gospel Music documents the history of black gospel music from the 1920s through the 1980s. The gospel quartet groups, radio announcers, solo artists, and promoters established Cleveland as the gospel singers' metropolitan hub. An integral part of Cleveland's history and its rich African-American...
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Autobiography of a Freedom Rider

My Life as a Foot Soldier for Civil Rights

by Thomas Armstrong, Natalie Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011

In the segregated Deep South when lynching and Klansmen and Jim Crow laws ruled, there stood a line of foot soldiers ready to sacrifice their lives for the right to vote, to enter rooms marked "White Only," and to live with simple dignity. They were called Freedom Riders and Thomas M. Armstrong was...
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by Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008

Acclaimed for his writing on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Tupac Shakur, and many more, Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as the leading African-American intellectual of his generation. This collection gathers the best of Dyson's vast and growing body of work from the last several years: his most...
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Emmett Till

The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

by Devery S. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015

Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first, and as of 2018, only comprehensive account of the 1955 murder, the trial, and the 2004-2007 FBI investigation into the case and Mississippi grand jury decision. By all accounts, it is the definitive...
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Policing the Black Man

Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Policing the Black Man explores and...
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Troy Duster

Berkeley Sociologist, Teacher, and Civil Rights Activist

by John F. Galliher
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015

This book is a biography of University of California-Berkeley sociology professor Troy Duster. Troy Duster received an MA and PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Duster is a black man who was born in South Chicago. His maternal grandmother is the famous Ida B. Wells. He...
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Freedom Facts and Firsts

400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience

by Jessie Carney Smith, Linda T Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009

Spanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, this guide book profiles more than 400 people, places, and events that have shaped the history of the black struggle for freedom. Coverage includes information on such mainstay figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and...
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Moorish Circle 7

The Rise of the Islamic Faith Among Blacks in America and It's Masonic Origins

by Keith Moore 32
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005

This book is based on the theory that the black Muslim movement was created from the knowledge of the Masonic order. In the early decades of the 20th century, noble drew ali established a political and religious organization known today as the Moorish Science Temple of America. It was this organization...
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