African American Studies category: 2787 books
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...
by Christopher Handy
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Racism is a learned behavior. If you don’t believe it, just watch little children and the way they interact before being taught by parents and others the differences between the races. For it was Jesus, the Son of God, who said that before we can get into heaven we must be as little Children,...
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...
A Journey to the Promised Land
The Struggle of a Suburban Church to Build an Edifice
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Dean Nisbett has crafted an excellent book that is carefully researched. He is a masterful storyteller, combining theology, sociology, history, scripture and church architecture into a masterpiece. Writing about the struggle of a suburban parish to build an edifice, the author cites numerous parallels...