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Twisted
My Dreadlock Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the cultural and political history of dreadlocks...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance,...
Going Too Far
Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Ishmael Reed goes too far, again! Just as the fugitive slaves went to Canada and challenged the prevailing view that slaves were well off under their masters, Ishmael Reed has gone all the way to Quebec—where this book is published—to challenge the widespread opinion that racism is no longer a...
Rough Amusements
The True Story of A'Lelia Walker, Patroness of the Harlem Renaissance's Down-Low Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack of lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of one of the most striking social careers in New York's history. The daughter of rags-to-riches multi-millionaire Madame C.J. Walker (the washerwoman who marketed the...
by Ahmed I. Yusuf
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The story of Somalis in Minnesota begins with three words: sahan, war, and martisoor. Driven from their homeland by civil war and famine, one group of Somali sahan, pioneers, discovered well-paying jobs in the city of Marshall, Minnesota. Soon the war, news, traveled that not only was employment available...
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Including the 1831 "Confessions"
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In the summer of 1831, a band of some forty slaves led by Nat Turner attacked slave-owning residents of Southampton County, Virginia. One of the largest and most violent revolts in the history of the young nation, the rebellion took the lives of some sixty white men, women, and children. An outcry...
Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution
Eight Cases, 1848-1856
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era are described and interpreted to demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick...
by W.B. Hartgrove
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
With biographical information about the founders of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. W. B. Hartgrove was known for his early 20th-century "Journal of Negro History." This short volume is an article about African American soldiers during the fight for independence. "Most of...
Lift Up Thy Voice
The Sarah and Angelina Grimké Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite position as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family in Charleston, South Carolina, for a life dedicated to abolitionism and advocacy of women's rights in the North. After the Civil War, discovering that their late brother had...
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
1818-1913
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
51 speeches by prominent African-American leaders include Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" address, Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?", plus speeches by W. E. B. Du Bois, Fanny Jackson, Rev. W. J. Gaines, and many others.
Pride of Family
Four Generations of American Women of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“From the moment I read the words [my great-grandmother] Frances Anne Rollin wrote in Boston on January 1, 1868—“The year renews its birth today with all its hopes and sorrows”—she became my beacon, the foremother who would finally share with me our collective past . . . —From the Preface
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by Charles J. Elmore Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2002
Pioneering African-American families, spanning generations from slavery to freedom, enrich Savannah's collective history. Men and women such as Andrew Bryan, founder of the nation's oldest continuous black Baptist church; the Rev. Ralph Mark Gilbert, who revitalized the NAACP in Savannah; and Rebecca...
by Ida B. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A shocking and powerful account of lynching written by activist, journalist, and former slave Ida B. Wells
In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice....
by Dr. Eric R. Jackson, Richard Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Nearly a century after the American Revolution, the waters of the Ohio River provided a real and complex barrier for the United States to navigate. While this waterway was a symbol of freedom and equality for thousands of enslaved black Americans who had escaped from the horrible institution of enslavement,...