African American category: 7736 books
First Fruits of Freedom
The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900
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...
Civil Rights Activism in Milwaukee
South Side Struggles in the '60s and '70s
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...
by Danny E. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
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.
Huey P. Newton
The Radical Theorist
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....
Policing Black Bodies
How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change
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...
by Everee Jimerson Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
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...
by Frederick Burton
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2003
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...
Autobiography of a Freedom Rider
My Life as a Foot Soldier for Civil Rights
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...
by Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
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...
Emmett Till
The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
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...
Policing the Black Man
Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
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...
Troy Duster
Berkeley Sociologist, Teacher, and Civil Rights Activist
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...
Freedom Facts and Firsts
400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience
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...
Moorish Circle 7
The Rise of the Islamic Faith Among Blacks in America and It's Masonic Origins
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...