774 books (39 pages) in this category
'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part
Love and Marriage in African America
by Frances Smith Foster
<p>Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is an impression that ...
ISBN: 9780199886975
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eBookby Yasmin Marie Headley
In the year 2084 citizen number 2040a struggles to find his place in the Orwellian society. Trapped in the monotony of life 2040a longs for companionship, and to discover what it means to be an African American in a time when races no longer ...
ISBN: 9781481754941
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eBookA Compass of Faith: A Man’s Journey To America
by Joseph Mbungu Nsiesi
<p>Death was sleeping all around us. I could feel her in the high cries of uncomfortable babies and the low moans of old men as they fight the pain and discomfort of dysentery. This would be a trip through hell, and perhaps some unfortunate ...
ISBN: 9781449752347
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eBookSlavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland
by Karolyn Smardz Frost
As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boundary that determined whether thousands of enslaved people of African descent could reach a ...
ISBN: 9780814339602
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eBookNorthern Black Soldiers, Their Families, and the Experience of Civil War
by James G. Mendez
<p><em>A Great Sacrifice</em> is an in-depth analysis of the effects of the Civil War on northern black families carried out using letters from northern black women—mothers, wives, sisters, and female family friends—addressed to a number of ...
ISBN: 9780823282517
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eBookA History of Fort Worth in Black & White
165 Years of African-American Life
by Richard F. Selcer
A History of Fort Worth in Black & White fills a long-empty niche on the Fort Worth bookshelf: a scholarly history of the city's black community that starts at the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers, and comes down to today with
ISBN: 9781574416305
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eBookA History of the African American Church
by Carter G. Woodson
<p>Carter G. Woodson's classic text on the emergence of African American churches, chronicling their story out of the eighteenth-century evangelical revivals and their transformations through the nineteenth and early twentieth century, is ...
ISBN: 9781937306632
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eBookA Journey to the Promised Land
The Struggle of a Suburban Church to Build an Edifice
by J. Mastine Nisbett
<p>Dean Nisbett has crafted an excellent book that is carefully researched. He is a masterful storyteller, combining theology, sociology, history, scripture and church architecture into a masterpiece. Writing about the struggle of a suburban ...
ISBN: 9781452092348
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eBookPresenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
<p>"I highly recommend reading this supplement in conjunction with Ms. Stowe's novel to gain a better understanding of the history of our nation." — The Literary South<br /> In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published <em>Uncle Tom's ...
ISBN: 9780486807225
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eBookThe African American Community of West Medford
by Edited by: Kristen Johnson & Ann Noling
West Medford, Massachusetts has been home to a thriving African American community, where families have lived for generations since the end of the Civil War. The stories of its residents have been fading as elders die and families move away. ...
ISBN: 9781468563689
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eBookAfro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
by Emily Suzanne Clark
<p>In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of ...
ISBN: 9781469628790
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eBookHousing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955
by Lionel Kimble
<p>Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence 2016</p> <p>During the Great Migration of the 1920s and 1930s, southern African Americans flocked to the South Side Chicago community of Bronzeville, the cultural, political, ...
ISBN: 9780809334278
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eBookThe Roles of School, Family, Teachers, Religion , Community, Local, State and Federal Government in Assisting Parents with Rearing Their Children
by Dr. Willie J. Greer Kimmons
<p>A Parenting Guide Book isa <strong>260</strong> page,practical, easy to read and use book that tells you what to say and how to say it to your children as a parent, grandparent or significant and responsible adult in the home. Children need ...
ISBN: 9781463475239
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eBookA Phenomenological Hermeneutic of Antiblack Racism in The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by David Polizzi
<p>This text provides a phenomenological account of the experience of anti-black racism as described by Malcolm X. Central to this analysis is the phenomenology that emerges over the course of Malcolm’s life, which emerges through the various ...
ISBN: 9781498592345
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eBookA Place We Call Home: Gender Race and Justice in Syracuse
by Ducre, Kishi
Faith holds up a photo of the boarded-up, vacant house: "It's the first thing I see. And I just call it 'the Homeless House' cause it's the house that nobody fixes up." Faith is one of fourteen women living in Syracuse's Southside, a ...
ISBN: 9780815652021
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eBookHow the Black Power Movement Changed Higher Education
by Dr. Kinaya C. Sokoya
<p>A Push from Below: How the Black Power Movement Changed Higher Education The purpose of this research was to study the link between the Black Power Movement and changes that occurred in higher education between 1960 and 1980. The main ...
ISBN: 9781546261872
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eBookThe Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
by Jon F. Sensbach
<p>In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge--an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief Elder was Christ himself. As the community's ...
ISBN: 9780807838549
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eBookFaith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy
by Richard L. Wood & Brad R. Fulton
<p>Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant players in shaping health care, finance, and immigration reform at the highest levels of ...
ISBN: 9780226306162
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eBookA Tortuous Journey to Citizenship
by Dr. Oliver Akamnonu
<p>They had initially made yearly vacation visits to the United States. Those were fun and relaxation times. But the monumental insecurity in their homeland coupled with disgust with the incessant mounting corruption and harassment from men in ...
ISBN: 9781463433956
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eBookA Black Woman's Story
by Elaine Brown
<p>Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August
ISBN: 9781101970102
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