African American category: 7736 books
Not Guilty
Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Patrick Dorismond, Abner Louima, and Amadou Diallo -- hear what a jury of prominent African Americans has to say about the black man's struggle for justice in America
Prompted by the killing of Amadou Diallo and the acquittal of the four New York City police officers who mistook him for an...
We Just Keep Running the Line
Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkansas and North Louisiana surrounding El Dorado, and the fates of many related companies and farms depended...
Letters to an Incarcerated Brother
Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A compelling, important addition to Hill Harper’s bestselling series, inspired by the numerous young inmates who write to him seeking guidance
After the publication of the bestselling Letters to a Young Brother, accomplished actor and speaker Hill Harper began to receive an increasing number...
Black Ball and the Boardwalk
The Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, 1916-1929
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The Giants’ accomplishments took place against an historical backdrop of a change in the African-American experience. The original players from Jacksonville, Florida, joined the northward black migration during World War I. The team was named after Harry Bacharach—an Atlantic City politician running...
by Thom Gossom
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Second book in the Slice of Life Collection of short stories by Thom Gossom Jr. The stories of Another Slice of Life reflect the decadence and newly found freedoms of the 1980s through the early 21st century. The newly hired groundbreaking African American Coach of the Alabama Tech Spiders...
Leveling the Playing Field
The Story of the Syracuse Eight
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Leveling the Playing Field tells the story of the African American members of the 1969–70 Syracuse University football team who petitioned for racial equality on their team. The petition had four demands: access to the same academic tutoring made available to their white teammates; better medical...
by Leslie A. Heaphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
At his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Negro League player Buck Leonard said, “Now, we in the Negro Leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing.... We loved the game.... But we thought that we should have and could have made the major...
Dream and Legacy
Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Contributions by Rosa M. Banda, Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Donathan L. Brown, Michael L. Clemons, William H. L. Dorsey, Hannah Firdyiwek, Alonzo M. Flowers III, Helen Taylor Greene, William G. Jones, Athena M. King, Taj'ullah Sky Lark, Jamela M. Martin, Marcus L. Martin, Byron D'Andra Orey, Amardo...
Moments of Impact
Injury, Racialized Memory, and Reconciliation in College Football
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In the first half of the twentieth century, Jack Trice, Ozzie Simmons, and Johnny Bright played college football for three Iowa institutions: Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and Drake University, respectively. At a time when the overwhelming majority of their opponents and teammates...
Behind the White Picket Fence
Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater equality would prevail in integrated neighborhoods. But as Sarah Mayorga-Gallo argues, multiethnic and mixed-income neighborhoods still harbor the signs of continued, systemic racial inequalities....
Black Exodus
The Great Migration from the American South
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
What were the causes that motivated legions of black southerners to immigrate to the North? What was the impact upon the land they left and upon the communities they chose for their new homes? Perhaps no pattern of migration has changed America's socioeconomic structure more than this mass exodus of...
Class and the Color Line
Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
A lauded contribution to historical sociology, Class and the Color Line is an analysis of social-movement organizing across racial lines in the American South during the 1880s and the 1890s. The Knights of Labor and the Populists were the largest and most influential movements of their day, as well...
The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Race, Power, and Politics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public...
Bound in Wedlock
Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Tera W. Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era. She reveals the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected white Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards for conjugal relationships under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.