Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South - Vanessa Siddle Walker

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

Reducere. Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addresse...

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. A nonfiction genre publication written in a storytelling format, Hortense Kilpatrick's powerful and riveting memoir An African American Woman's Chi...

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

Gravel and Grit recounts not only a rural boyhood in a period of racial hostility and class exclusion but also of simple country pleasures and stro...

Reducere. Through 24 narratives, How We Got Over captures Black life in compelling first-person accounts from childhood and teen years in mid-twentieth centu...

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

Reducere. 2012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during...

Reducere. ... will make a splendid contribution to the fields of African-American and American urban, social and family history.... expanding the tradition t...

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

An African American Dilemma offers the first social history of northern Black debates over school integration versus separation from the 1840s to t...

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

Reducere. The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for...

Exploding the assumption that black women's only important musical contributions have been in folk, jazz, and popPublisher: University of Illinois ...

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

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. The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for...

Reducere. In this important study, Dr. Gift Mtukwa investigates the relationship between work and community in Paul's letters to the Thessalonians. Utilizing...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionIn 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino str...

Be your highest potential with ReikiPublisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): Sarina KorotaneNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

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

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

Reducere. There are many ways to protest...many ways to address injustices, many ways to right a wrong. A real leader sets positive examples to empower other...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.Pub...

Reducere. Black churches and their leaders are at the front line of a war for the lives of people bound by fear, anger, and idolatry. Sociologists, politicia...

Reducere. Jacinta V. White's Resurrecting The Bones will not let southern African American history be silenced by re-zoning, gentrification, and useful forge...

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. This moving collection of poems by Phillis Wheatley is intended to inspire Christians and tribute various believers who had recently been deceased....

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

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. Do you want to better yourself to your highest potential? Have you been seeking help on how to control your mind, body, and soul and use it for you...

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

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

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. Kofi Dᴐnkᴐ was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and custodian of share...

Jim Dueck takes parental intuition and gives it scientific validation in this book that challenges the established status quo of the education system.

Reducere. Gain a deep understanding of the Orishas from A to Z!You are not alone. The spirits of our ancestors are with you. The ancient Orishas, known for t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Vanessa DietzelNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 240 x 31Cover type: Hardb...

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

Reducere. Celebrate the world's most famous black women with this unique and wonderful coloring book.Do you want to learn more about incredible black women t...

Using data from a long-term ethnographic study of English language classrooms in a South African township, this book conceptualises language teachi...

Reducere. This collection contains the complete poetic works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was among the first African Americans to gain wide renown for liter...

Reducere. Gain incredible insights by accessing your past lives and future possibilities in your Akashic Records!Do you believe that you have past lives? Do ...

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.

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...