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Walter White: Mr. NAACP Walter White: Mr. NAACP
by Kenneth Robe Janken

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Walter White (1893-1955) was among the nation's preeminent champions of civil rights. With blond hair and blue eyes, he could "pass" as white even though he identified as African American, and his physical appearance allowed him to go undercover to... (read more)

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A White Preacher's Memoir: The Montgomery Bus Boycott A White Preacher's Memoir: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Robert S Graetz

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In 1955, a young white minister was sent to pastor an all-black church in Alabama. When the famous bus boycott began, he was the only white preacher supporting it. His home was bombed, he and his family were threatened, but he stayed the course.... (read more)

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Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--And What We Can Do a Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--And What We Can Do a
by Juan Williams

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One of the country's best known and most respected black journalists attacks the failure of the post-Civil Rights generation of African Americans to seize on the gains of that historic movement.... (read more)

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Freedom's Child: The Remarkable Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter Freedom's Child: The Remarkable Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter
by Carrie Allen Mccray

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In her late seventies, long after learning that she was the granddaughter of a Confederate general and that her grandmother was a former slave, Carrie Allen McCray (b. 1913) set about trying to unearth the family secrets that had been haunting her all... (read more)

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Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
by Nell Irvin Painter

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"An exquisitely detailed study of a brilliant and powerful life". -- Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, San Francisco Chronicle Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist of the mid-nineteenth century, a figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher, and... (read more)

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In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative
by Henry Louis Gates

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Three years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped From North Carolina, which turned out to be the first novel by a female African-American slave ever... (read more)

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A Hungry Heart A Hungry Heart
by Gordon Parks, Jr.

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Gordon Parks, acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author of fiction and nonfiction, has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on... (read more)

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A Black Patriot and a White Priest: Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) A Black Patriot and a White Priest: Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by Stephen J Ochs

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In A Black Patriot and a White Priest, Stephen J. Ochs chronicles the intersection of two lives in Civil War New Orleans -- that of the first black military Civil War hero, Captain Andre Cailloux of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, and that of the... (read more)

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Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex
by Marita Golden

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In a hard-hitting meditation on the role that color plays among African Americans and in wider society, Marita Golden dares to put herself on the line, expressing her fears and rage about how she has navigated through the color complex. To be sure... (read more)

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Return to Glory: The Powerful Stirring of the Black Race Return to Glory: The Powerful Stirring of the Black Race
by Joel A Freeman

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180).... (read more)

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Sapelo's People: A Long Walk Into Freedom Sapelo's People: A Long Walk Into Freedom
by William S Mcfeely

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McFeely retells the history--and enters the current-day lives--of the people who inhabit Sapelo's Island off the coast of Georgia, descendants of slaves who once worked its plantations. It is a richly detailed work of historical reconstruction, a... (read more)

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Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle
by Steven F Lawson

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Over the past thirty years, Steven F. Lawson has established himself as one of the nation's leading historians of the black struggle for equality. Civil Rights Crossroads is an important collection of Lawson's writings about the civil rights movement... (read more)

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Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures #39: The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures #39: The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
by Trudier Harris

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In ways that are highly individual, says Harris, yet still within a shared oral tradition, Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan skillfully use storytelling techniques to define their audiences, reach out and draw them in, and fill them... (read more)

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The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
by Elizab Fox Genovese

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Presenting many slaveholders as intelligent, honorable and pious men and women, this study asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that inflicted gross abuse on slaves. The South had formidable... (read more)

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Community Memories: A Glimpse of African American Life in Frankfort, Kentucky Community Memories: A Glimpse of African American Life in Frankfort, Kentucky
by Winona L Fletcher

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Community Memories is a fascinating look into life recalled by African Americans who consider Frankfort their home. Featuring unique oral history recollections and over two hundred candid personal photographs collected from community residents, the book... (read more)

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Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
by Nell Irvin Painter

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Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong... (read more)

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You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks
by Thordis Simonsen

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"A profoundly poignant yet triumphant book, a recreation by an Alabama-born black of her struggle against racism and poverty while striving for the common dream of Americans. . . . {A} marvelously earthy 'narrative.'. . . Her memoir is the stuff of human... (read more)

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Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
by Francis Bok

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In this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity. May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan... (read more)

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Gabr'l Blow Sof': Sumter County, Alabama Slave Narratives Gabr'l Blow Sof': Sumter County, Alabama Slave Narratives
by Alan Brown

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Together for the first time, these slave narratives from Sumter County, Alabama -- most of them collected by Ruby Pickens Tartt under the auspices of the WPA -- offer rich insight into the periods of the Civil War and Reconstruction. (Collected during... (read more)

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Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994 Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994
by Fredrick C Harris

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This is a first-ever study assessing black civic participation after the civil rights movement.... (read more)

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