Kategoria BISAC: History >> African American & Black

This book traces Attucks's career through both history and myth to understand...

"It is important to establish where you came from to understand where you're going," according to author, Jimi Little. In doing so, Little's memoir captures the indomitable spirit of Black People from slavery to the twenty-first century. This memoir is an unapologetic look at growing up Black in Columbus, Ohio in the 40s, and 50s during a period of apartheid America.

Follow Little's journey from Columbus, Ohio to Los Angeles, as he learned many life lessons about overcoming obstacles and hurdles to become a successful business person. His maternal grandfather, James Edward Gibson,...

Frederick Douglas was a slave, then a free man. He was an abolitionist, a writer, and an orator who became a great social reformer and statesman. Perhaps even more important, he served as a powerful counter-example to white Americans who believed black people could not be their equals. Douglass dedicated his life to the pursuit of freedom and equality for not just African Americans, but for all people, of all races, male and female.

The Historian's Narrative of Frederick Douglass: Reading Douglass's Autobiography as Social and Cultural History covers the first decades...

Frederick Douglas was a slave, then a free man. He was an abolitionist, a writer, and an orator who became a great social reformer and statesman. Perhaps even more important, he served as a powerful counter-example to white Americans who believed black people could not be their equals. Douglass dedicated his life to the pursuit of freedom and equality for not just African Americans, but for all people, of all races, male and female.

The Historian's Narrative of Frederick Douglass: Reading Douglass's Autobiography as Social and Cultural History covers the first decades...

Africans, both home, and in the diaspora, handle time. Time is central, critical, and crucial to our human existence. The Creator-God respected time very much in the creation account in Genesis Chapters 1 and 2. Maximum utilization of time leads to development and progress. Conversely, the misuse and misappropriation of time are -friendly- to poverty. The twenty-four hours divided into three segments of discussion and analysis in this book tell the full story. Time is priceless and most valuable. It is key to our survival as a people.

What is -African Punctuality?- It is more than...

Washington recounted stories told by his grandmother's elderly friends--stories of escaping from slavery, meeting Lincoln in the capitol, learning of the president's assassination, and hearing ghosts at Ford's Theatre. He also...

Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of the Civil War, a difference mapped onto larger perceived cultural disparities between the two regions. The South's post Civil War embrace of chain gangs and convict leasing occupies such a prominent position in the nation's imagination that it has come to represent one of the region's hallmark differences from the North. The regions are different, the argument goes, because they punish differently.

Capital and Convict challenges...

Contributions by Reuben V. Anderson, Haley Barbour, Kane Ditto, Myrlie Evers, John E. Fleming, Dennis J. Mitchell, and William F. Winter

In December 2017, in celebration of our state's bicentennial, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History will open two state-of-the-art museums--the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The Museum of Mississippi History will explore the entire sweep of the state's history. The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, the first state-operated civil rights museum in the country, will explore the period from 1945 to 1976,...

The classic memoir by Cleveland Sellers that offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into his volunteer work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1960s civil rights movement.

Among histories of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, there are few personal narratives that are as compelling and insightful as The River of No Return. Besides being an insider's account of the rise and fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this riveting memoir is an eyewitness report of the strategies and the conflicts in the crucial battle zones...