History
BLACK SOLDIERS OF NEW YORK: A PROUD LEGACY
Concise history of the valiant service of New York’s African American soldiers. Product details Publisher : Excelsior Editions; Illustrated edition (January 22, 2009) Language : English Paperback : 188 pages ISBN-10 : 143842616X ISBN-13 : 978-1438426167 Item Weight : 8 ounces Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.47 x...
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A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard Fast Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s...
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LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME: EVERYTHING YOUR AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOK GOT WRONG (REVISED) (PB)
"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."―Howard Zinn A new edition of the...
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CHOCOLATE CITY: A HISTORY OF RACE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL (PB)
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a...
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE AFRIKAN HOLOCAUST: SLAVERY AND THE RISE OF EUROPEAN CAPITALISM
Originally published by A & B Books, Brooklyn, New York. Product details Publisher : EWorld Inc.; Reprint edition (August 1, 2011) Language : English Paperback : 123 pages ISBN-10 : 1617590304 ISBN-13 : 978-1617590306 Item Weight : 5.6 ounces Dimensions : 5.4 x 0.3 x 8.4 inches...
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DEFINING MOMENTS IN BLACK HISTORY: READING BETWEEN THE LIES (PB)
Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelong activist against social injustice, whether he...
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DEFINING MOMENTS IN BLACK HISTORY: READING BETWEEN THE LIES (HB)
With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America. A friend of luminaries including...
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BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER: A HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA, 1619-1962
This a great introduction, if not then the best introduction, to African American History. If you are wanting to know more about the story of African Americans this book is very readable and accurate. When I taught our school African...
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Publisher: William Morrow & Company The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space—a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding...
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HANNAH MARY TABBS AND THE DISEMBODIED TORSO: A TALE OF RACE, SEX, AND VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest.As...
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BLACK MAGIC: WHAT BLACK LEADERS LEARNED FROM TRAUMA AND TRIUMPH
“I remember the day I realized I couldn’t play a white guy as well as a white guy. It felt like a death sentence for my career.”When Chad Sanders landed his first job in lily white Silicon Valley, he quickly...
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DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM
"Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development ofthird world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominentrole."--Library JournalThis classic work, firstpublished in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation ofscholars and activists at the forefront of liberation...
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MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE IN FLORIDA: BRINGING SOCIAL JUSTICE TO THE SUNSHINE STATE
Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well. From the founding of the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in...
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BLOOD AT THE ROOT: A RACIAL CLEANSING IN AMERICA
Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young black...
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AN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND LATINX HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (REVISIONING AMERICAN HISTORY #4)
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 crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist...
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SET THE WORLD ON FIRE: BLACK NATIONALIST WOMEN AND THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM (POLITICS AND CULTURE IN MODERN AMERICA)
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize...
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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America
Publisher: St. Martin's Press Named a 2018 Notable Work of Nonfiction by The Washington PostNOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner, The 2018 Southern Book PrizeNAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Chicago Tribune • Time • Publisher's WeeklyA stunning follow up to New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot...
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BALLOTS AND BULLETS: BLACK POWER POLITICS AND URBAN GUERRILLA WARFARE IN 1968 CLEVELAND
On July 23, 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black nationalists.The dramatic shootout in the Glenville neighborhood left ten dead and over fifteen wounded. The event sparked days of heavy rioting and raised myriad questions. Were these shootings an ambush...
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EYE ON THE STRUGGLE: ETHEL PAYNE, THE FIRST LADY OF THE BLACK PRESS
A self-proclaimed “instrument for change,” Payne publicly prodded President Dwight D. Eisenhower to support desegregation. From Alabama to Vietnam, from Indonesia to Ghana, her reporting on legislative and judicial civil rights battles enlightened and motivated black readers, for whom she...
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CORETTA SCOTT KING: A BIOGRAPHY
Coretta Scott was committed to social justice long before she met and married Martin Luther King, Jr. She shared in all the dangers that King's prominence in the civil rights movement brought, and she saw herself as full partner in...
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