Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community, Paperback - John M. Coggeshall

Reducere. In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liber...

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

In this provocative appraisal of desegregation in South Carolina, R. Scott Baker contends that half a century after the Brown decision we still kno...

Reducere. The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of S...

Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1, 000 e...

Reducere. Description "Catchin' babies" was merely one aspect of the broad role of African American midwives in the twentieth-century South. Yet, little has ...

Reducere. Barry Farm-Hillsdale was created under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1867 in what was then the outskirts of the nation's capital. Reside...

Reducere. The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holde...

Reducere. Greenville History Tours owner John Nolan leads the reader through downtown in a tourist-friendly guide to historic sites, with vintage photographs...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume focuses broadly on the history of the social welfare reform work of nineteenth-century African American women who founded in...

In this first historically comprehensive book on Lost Cove, North Carolina, the author paints a portrait of an isolated yet thriving settlement tha...

Explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregatio...

Reducere. Junaluska is one of the oldest African American communities in western North Carolina and one of the few surviving today. After Emancipation, many ...

Reducere. Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer...

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Reducere. In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustr...

Reducere. Born in South LA: 100 Remarkable African Americans Who Were Born, Raised, Lived or Died in South LA documents the stories, struggles, accomplishmen...

Offers an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music form. John Shaw follows the music from its roots in West Africa and ea...

Reducere. Aaron McDuffie Moore (1863-1923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War. Defying the odds stacke...

Reducere. The Clemson Extension Seasonal Planting Guide and Calendar for South Carolina School and Community Gardens is an easy-to-follow guidethat includes ...

In the 1970s the author travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. This title describes his journeys.

Serves both as an introduction to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's large body of work and as a critical analysis of her multifac...

Reducere. DescriptionBy 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia's largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted Africa...

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Reducere. "An expansive spectrum of literary purpose and aesthetics that shine fiercely" --from the introduction by Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet L...

Frederick Douglass dismissed Myrtilla's plan to open a school for African American girls in the slaveholding South as "reckless, almost to the poin...

This is the comprehensive biography of one of the least known Revolutionary War generals, Benjamin Lincoln. It explains the events that shaped Linc...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional ...

Reducere. This indispensable highway companion maps out short trips for exploring the Palmetto State's scenic byways and back roads.About author(s): John F. ...

Reducere. After barely making it out of the Congo War alive and experiencing South Africa right after apartheid, Yves and his family fled their homeland and ...

Reducere. With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in No...

This book explores the major threats and roots affecting both America's most racially polarized periods as well as the major issues plaguing the Af...

Reducere. In 1909, the Smithsonian Institution commissioned ex-President Theodore Roosevelt to collect specimens of African wildlife for the National Museum....

Serves both as an introduction to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's large body of work and as a critical analysis of her multifac...

Reducere. A disgusted Black man boldly confronts the dysfunctional and criminal subculture (along with their apologists) that exists within the African-Ameri...

Reducere. The story of the historic Greenwood District is a bittersweet one that speaks of triumph but was interrupted by tragedy, leaving one wondering, "wh...

Reducere. In 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown. Black beaut...

Reducere. Life has never been fairytales, tender kisses or roses for cousins Yanni and Shontaea Brown. Growing up in the gutters-dirt-filled streets that man...

Reducere. This book is sure to spread joy and cheer to your family storytimes. Written by teen Noland Nixon. The Night Before Christmas is an African-America...

Reducere. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, re...

Reducere. This unique hiking guide to the southern Appalachian mountains leads readers to explore the rich forest ecosystems and other natural communities vi...

DescriptionBrazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the bl...

Reducere. DescriptionA triumph of historical detective work, Crossing the Continent is the remarkable, never-before-told story of the first black explorer an...

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Reducere. DescriptionAt the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton planta...

Surveys the life and work of the successful Irish novelist and short story writer whose career was launched with the 1963 publication of ""The Barr...

Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, b...

Reducere. An African American Philosophy of Medicine examines race, medical knowledge, and history in the United States. The book further addresses meaning a...

Reducere. Written by a professional dog whisperer and dog owner, the South African Boerboel Complete Owner's Manual has the answers you may need when researc...