| Africana:
The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
by Kwame Anthony
Appiah, Henry
Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor) ~ Legendary scholar-activist W.E.B.
Du Bois labored to complete an "Encyclopedia Africana" before his
death in 1963. Just over 35 years later, two Harvard educators,
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Ghanaian-born Kwame Anthony Appiah, have
brought Du Bois' intellectual dream to life in Africana
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enjoy the CD-rom edition.
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Encarta Africana Third Edition by Microsoft ~ Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, Me
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| Delia
Webster and the Underground Railroad by Randolph Paul
Runyon ~ Explores the
conflicting reports surrounding the roles of a mild- mannered school
teacher and a Methodist preacher in transporting slaves for the
Underground Railroad. For those interested in Kentucky history, the
antislavery movement, and the role of women in the 19th century. |
| Finding
a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and
Historical Identity, Revised and Expanded by Dee P.
Woodtor |
| Freedomways
Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country by Esther C.
Jackson, Constance Pohl (Contributor) When it was created in 1961, the
goal of the publication Freedomways was "to serve as a
vehicle of communication, which will mirror developments in the
diversified many-sided struggles of the Negro people." |
| Hidden
in Plain View : A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground
Railroad by Jacqueline L.
Tobin, et al ~ When quiltmaker Ozella McDaniels
told Jacqueline Tobin of the Underground Railroad Quilt Code, it
sparked Tobin to place the tale within the history of the
Underground Railroad. Hidden
in Plain View documents Tobin
and Raymond Dobard's journey of discovery |
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See also
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| African
American Movie Favorites |
| Hidden
Witness |
| The Face of Our
Past |
| The
Struggle for Civil Rights |
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| Hidden
Witness : African American Images from the Dawn of Photography to
the Civil War by Jackie Napolean Wilson |
| In
Search of Black America: Discovering the African American Dream
by David J. Dent ~ If you watch the news, it is
possible to misconstrue African Americans as an undereducated,
hyperathletic, and jail-prone demographic group residing largely in
urban areas. This is precisely the kind of cliché that journalist
David J. Dent seeks to undermine |
| Let
Nobody Turn Us Around by Manning Marable (Editor),
Leith
Mullings (Editor) |
| My
Soul Is a Witness : A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era
1954-1965 by Bettye
Collier-Thomas, V. P. Franklin ~ A powerful and inspiring
record of one of the most significant periods in America's history,
which presents the full historic scope of the hard-fought battle for
civil rights. |
| Spirit
Dive : An African-American's Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave
Ship's Past by Michael H. Cottman ~ For most Afro-Americans, the
slave ship was the vessel that ushered their unwilling ancestors
from their homeland to the New World. That is why Michael Cottman's Spirit
Dive resonates with such horror and history, as he
uncovers the sordid tale of the Henrietta Marie |
| The
Black New Yorkers: The Schomburg Illustrated Chronology
by Howard
Dodson, et al ~ The
Black New Yorkers is
the companion volume to the Schomburg Center exhibit as well as a
resource for the PBS history of New York City. With over 200
illustrations and 480 pages, it traces the nearly 400-year-old black
presence in New York |
| The
Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the
Present by Kathleen Thompson (Editor), et al |
| The
Hairstons : An American Family in Black and White by
Henry Wiencek ~ The
Hairstons traces the
complex lineage and fascinating legacy of one of America's largest
families. Henry Wiencek explores the lives of black and white
members of the Hairston clan, as they have accepted each other as
one family, easing the historical divide between the races, |
| The
New York Public Library African American Desk Reference
~
This is exactly the type of
reference book you'd expect from the New York Public
Library--it is
packed with tables, charts, timelines, and summaries devoted, in
this case, to the African American experience. Chapters cover a
variety of topics, including the saga of African American history,
politics... Read more |
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