Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South, Paperback - Robert Goodwin

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A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system an...

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told tr...

African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in provi...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Premilla NadasenNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 153 x 246 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softb...

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From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis A...

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The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it ...

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Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Jacqui MaloneNumber of pages: 312Collection: Folklore and SocietyPublication date: 1996Dimensions...

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The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers an...

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