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by David Vassar Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
While making up a smaller percentage of Minnesota's population compared to national averages, African Americans have had a profound influence on the history and culture of the state from its earliest days to the present. Author David Taylor chronicles the rich history of Blacks in the state through...
Freedom's Racial Frontier
African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West—an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom’s Racial...
African Americans in Glencoe
The Little Migration
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The village of Glencoe has a proud history of early African American settlement. In recent years, however, this once thriving African American community has begunto disperse. Robert Sideman, a thirty-year Glencoe resident, relates this North Shore suburb�s African American history through fond remembrances...
by Ersula Knox Odom
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Tampa has a fascinating past that has been wonderfully documented with one exception: African Americans. This culturally rich community is virtually invisible in the eyes of history. Tampa�s population exploded during the early 1900s, and the building boom universally required the skills and talents...
by Lorena M. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Storytelling is alive and well in the 21st Century. A good Fable or Fairy-tale can still hold its own in an era of DVDs, Play Stations and Cyberspace. Just imagine reading a passage in one of these stories that is so vivid that you can relate to a time and place never experience, yet, draw an association...
Brother Bill
President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
“This book is a fascinating analysis of race and class in the age of President Bill Clinton. It provides much-needed clarity in regards to the myth of the ‘First Black President.’ It contributes much to our understanding of the history that informs our present moment!”
—Cornel West
As...
by The Kansas African American Museum
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
The African American community of Wichita is as old as the city itself, dating back to early pioneers, cowboys, and business figures. Once relatively integrated, Wichita became more segregated as the 20th century unfolded. In response, African Americans developed a lively neighborhood downtown with its...
by Paul Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was...
by Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society, Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Jefferson County can proudly claim a large number of firsts when it comes to African Americans in national history. The raid to free slaves that served as a catalyst for the Civil War was led by abolitionist John Brown in Harpers Ferry. The first man wounded in the rebellion was Heyward Shepherd, a free...
Educational Reconstruction
African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War.
Hilary Green...
A White-Collar Profession
African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Among the major professions, certified public accountancy has the most severe underrepresentation of African Americans: less than 1 percent of CPAs are black. Theresa Hammond explores the history behind this statistic and chronicles the courage and determination of African Americans who sought to...
Identity and African American Men
Exploring the Content of Our Characterization
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Identity and African American Men: Exploring the Content of Our Characterization provides a comprehensive, research-based account of the ideologies and mindsets of many young African American men.
Identity and African American Men makes a unique contribution to the literature by offering a conceptual...
by Celestine E. Ebegbulem
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Introduction to African Stories by Moonlight. The most memorable evenings I had as a child were those in which, together with other children, I listened to adults tell us stories which were often accompanied with rhythmic and delightful songs. When I started raising my own family in the city, my children...
Is Marriage for White People?
How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution.
Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry.
That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality:...