Haunted by Slavery: A Memoir of a Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle, Paperback - Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

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Reducere. What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, contacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? First surprise? Bet...

Reducere. The civil rights movement was defined by figures thrust into positions of importance; be they participants in a sit-in, Freedom Riders, or marchers...

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Reducere. Donald Hall's remarkable life in poetry -- a career capped by his appointment as U.S. poet laureate in 2006 -- comes alive in this richly detailed,...

DescriptionHow a Black woman from Texas became the most prominent civil rights activist in Minnesota, detailing seven remarkable decades of fightin...

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Reducere. Russ and Nicole Bell were an upwardly mobile happy couple: two kids, big house, fun hobbies, marvelous life. But something wasn't quite right-with ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Lindy Elkins-TantonNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 238 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Shannen Dee Williams provides a comprehensive history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, tracing how Black sisters' struggles were centra...

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Reducere. Rural Mississippi in the 1950s was a world filled with racism where Black sharecropping families struggled just to break even. Yet the love of her ...

Examines the threads connecting South and West America during the slaveholding era, and that undermined the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevi...

Reducere. The Undertaker is Laura Del Gaudio's lively story of learning the family business from under the kitchen table as a child. It is how she learned em...

Coates is the essential chronicler of black America, and his first memoir is a small and beautiful epic of growing up in 1980s Baltimore

In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf--Africa's "Iron La...

Reducere. 'A City Within a City' is a case study of the civil rights era as it happened in smaller cities, focusing specifically on the struggles involving s...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the l...

Reducere. DescriptionEven forty years after the civil rights movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quit...

Reducere. In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used pho...

Reducere. The name of this book was derived from a college course, Systems Theory of Psychology. One of the major lessons I learned was, when people don't va...

Reducere. Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was ...

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"The challenges of identity, assimilation, achievement, and politics that were faced by Lahoma and Cindy are the same challenges our youth are faci...

Southern Man tells the story of Alan Walden, one of the most colourful and influential personalities to emerge from the history of R&B and Southern...

Publisher: Prentice Hall PressAuthor(s): Suzanne HancockNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 146 x 222 x 24Cover type: HardbackRed...

Reducere. Would you have sailed a 30-foot sailboat to the South Pacific before GPS navigation and accessible ocean weather forecasts existed? In 1976, after ...

DescriptionInvestigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Jam...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Martin A. BergerIllustration(s): 65 b-w illus.Number of pages: 162Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

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In this book the author shares his detailed understanding of the wild plants of the region, from plants of the sandy Mediterranean and Atlantic bea...

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Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Lady HaleNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 195 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softba...

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Reducere. Geisler's Chosen but Free sparked a firestorm of controversy when he labeled Calvinism theologically inconsistent, philosophically insufficient, an...

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