Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era, Hardcover - Alison Rose Jefferson

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

Explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the first half of the 20th...

Reducere. The service of African Americans in defense of the Union during the Civil War required African American nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis particular Oregon history is about African American loggers during the Great Migration of more than six million African Americans f...

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...

Reducere. Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justi...

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era - David Williams

Reducere. DescriptionAdvance Praise for Dream-Singers ""You will find a great storehouse of folk and literary treasures in this ambitious book that speaks to...

Reducere. Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, ...

Reducere. DescriptionAfrican Americans have risen from the slave plantations of nineteenth-century Florida to become the heads of corporations and members of...

DescriptionThe first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the l...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Miriam ThaggertIllustration(s): 34 black & white photographs, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 240Collectio...

DescriptionSmall businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy. They are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for...

Reducere. In his highly readable, educational and inspiring memoir, Holocaust Survivor Ben Lesser's warm, grandfatherly tone invites the reader to do more th...

Reducere. In recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the...

A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerall...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard W. Paradise"Living Life Riverside" is a tragicomedy about your vanilla-average Midwestern couple who, when they rea...

Reducere. The inspiring all-American story of faith, family, hard work, and perseverance by Olympic fencer, activist, and Time"100 Most Influential People" h...

Reducere. That Old Black Magic is a history of the best known black stage magicians performing in the United States since the colonial days, featuring fascin...

Analysing the ubiquity of the small town in fiction of the mid-century US South, Living Jim Crow is the first extended scholarly study to explore h...

What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote...

Reducere. For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in...

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United St...

Reducere. The African American Scholarship Guide should prove to be a very useful tool for libraries, high schools, students and parents to help find the lat...

Reducere. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about th...

Reducere. For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Toget...

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Chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat ...

Reducere. The British colony of West Florida--which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what ...

Reducere. "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy ...

The Crow. The Third Book of Pellinor - Alison Croggon

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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 ...

An engaging, wide-ranging, and groundbreaking reexamination of the relationship between African American writers and the communist movement in the US.

Reducere. Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure--the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, Eu...

Reducere. Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African America...

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380, ...

DescriptionPaul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced So...

Reducere. For most of the first half of the twentieth century, African-Americans were excluded from Organized Baseball. But their love of the game, and their...