African American category: 7736 books
Negro Comrades of the Crown
African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued to collaborate with Great Britain against...
by Tonya A. Lanier
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
African Americans were present in Davidson County long before it was officially formed from Rowan County in 1822. The exact time or place of settlement remains in question. They served not only in the stereotypical roles of farm laborers and house slaves but also as skilled traders, blacksmiths, furniture...
by Andre D. Vann
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Durham County, North Carolina, once called the "Chicago of the South" and the "Capital of the Black Bourgeoisie," has long occupied an important place in the hearts and minds of those who called Durham County home. African Americans have played a vital role in the growth and development of the region...
by Cyprian Clamorgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the "colored aristocracy." In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves,...
by D. Molentia Guttman, Ernest Golden, African American Diversity Cultural Center Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
During the early 1800s, about two dozen men of African descent lived in Hawai�i. The most noteworthy was Anthony D. Allen, a businessman who had traveled around the world before making Hawai�i his home and starting a family there in 1810. The 25th Black Infantry Regiment, also known as the Buffalo...
From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse
African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In the years immediately following the Civil War--the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi--there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them. From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse is the first comprehensive examination...
In Search of Our Roots
How l9 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to set foot on this country’s shores, most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was...
Henry Frye
North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a transformational change. When he graduated from college in 1953, African Americans like him could only hope that the future would be different from the past. At the close of his public career in 2001, he was chief justice of the North Carolina...
Black Corona
Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
In Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban communities are "socially disorganized." Gregory demonstrates instead how working-class...
by African Methodist Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Published in 1817, The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first definitive guide to the history, beliefs, teachings, and practices of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Beginning with a brief history, the book moves into a presentation of the "Articles...
The Prince of Jockeys
The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Isaac Burns Murphy (1861--1896) was one of the most dynamic jockeys of his era. Still considered one of the finest riders of all time, Murphy was the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times, and his 44 percent win record remains unmatched. Despite his success, Murphy was pushed out of Thoroughbred...
by Charles Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The House Behind the Cedars, which many consider Charles Chesnutt’s finest novel, tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting...
by Ann Petry
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American writers of the past century.
Ann Petry is increasingly recognized as one of the essential American novelists of the twentieth century. Now, she joins the Library of America...
Geographies of Liberation
The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In this absorbing transnational history, Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major political and cultural shifts around the world, the...