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Playing the Enemy
Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
The inspiration for the film INVICTUS, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman.
Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament- the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's...
Writings on the Wall
Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A New York Times and Washington Post Bestseller
Bestselling author, basketball legend and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores the heart of issues that affect Americans today.
Since retiring from professional basketball as the NBA's all-time leading scorer, six-time MVP,...
Spying on the South
An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
In 1852, the United States of America was anything but united. The divisive issue of slavery was roiling the nation, which argued ad nauseam about the extension of slavery in new states as the nation pushed westward. Less than a decade later, Americans would fight each other in a Civil War that would...
Ace of Spades
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are
When David Matthews's mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish. For the next twenty years, he would be torn between his actual life as a black boy in the ghetto...
by Raymond Sunstrum
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
A teaching assignment to the Bahamas is the beginning of a profound life-changing journey for White Canadian Ray Sunstrum. The journey continues when he begins pursuing a degree in Social Work at Ottawa’s Carleton University and meets the love of his life, Dora, a Black woman from Trinidad and...
Abraham Lincoln
La Guerra de Secesión y la lucha contra la esclavitud
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Abraham Lincoln y la Guerra de Secesión de los Estados Unidos, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Descubrir más sobre el personaje de Abraham Lincoln y su...
Outdated Advertising
Sexist, Racist, Creepy, and Just Plain Tasteless Ads from a Pre-PC Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This outrageous collection of inappropriate ads will have you turning the pages and shaking your head in disbelief.
Outdated Advertising: Memories from a Less-than-PC Era takes a look at print advertising from the mid-1850s through the 1980s with an eye toward ads that were notorious for their sexist,...
The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism
From Ancient Times to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon. Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical...
Stark Mad Abolitionists
Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.
In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American man who had escaped from slavery in Virginia and settled...
Martin's Dream
My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
On August 28, 1963 hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flocked to the nation's capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. It was Clayborne Carson's first demonstration. A nineteen year old black...
by John Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
On November 4, 2008, the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States showed that the country had finally overcome its most hurtful, shameful, and enduring legacy—slavery. Though Obama's election showed progress, the John McCain–Sarah Palin campaign and the...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Companion to the PBS Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Between 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives, to defeating segregation. During these times, characterized by some as "worse than slavery," African Americans fought the status quo, acquiring education and land and building businesses, churches,...
Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years A Slave
The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
A companion to the classic African-American autobiographical narrative, Twelve Years A Slave, this work presents fascinating new information about the 1841 kidnapping, 1853 rescue, and pre- and post-slavery life of Solomon Northup.
• For the first time, a book documents the full story of...