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Memories of the Enslaved: Voices from the Slave Narratives.

The First Twenty-Five: An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock's Public Junior High Schools.

Black and Blue: Inside the Divide Between the Police and Black America.

African American Business Leaders & Entrepreneurs
This ebook is a biographical sketch and interview compilation of leading African-American entrepreneurs in the USA.
Black Looks: Race and Representation
In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness.
The Black Officer Corps: A History of Black Military Advancement from Integration through Vietnam
The Origins of the Negro Military Officer -- Civil Rights, Black Power, and Military Service -- Historically Black Colleges and the Reserve Officer Training Corps-- Inequities in the Officer Promotion System -- Analysis and Interpretation of the Butler Report -- Racial Tension -- Anatomy of the African American Enlisted Soldier -- The Role and Significance of African American Officers' Wives
Courage has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.
Go Tell it on the Mountain
The story of John, a fourteen-year-old boy whose stepfather is a Pentecostal minister in Harlem in 1935, as he struggles to discover his own identity.
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists & Progressive Politics During World War II
In Harlem Nocturne, scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin tells the stories of three black female artists who emerged during this period of unprecedented openness, flourishing professionally while also making enormous political strides for their fellow women and African-Americans.
The Harlem Renaissance in the American West: The New Negro's Western Experience
"Harlem Renaissance" is a misnomer. The renaissance was not produced by native-born Harlemites only, nor was it confined only to Harlem. Instead, it was a national phenomenon. While most treatments of the renaissance period focus on the Eastern Seaboard, the impact of the renaissance on the West and Southwest have been neglected.
It's Not Because You're Black: Addressing Issues of Racism and Underrepresentation of African-Americans in Academia
This book takes a realistic look at the effects of the underrepresentation of African-Americans in colleges and universities. It highlights local, state, and national consequences facing America’s educational future as the country becomes more diverse.
The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States
Freedom was not achieved in a moment, and emancipation was not an occasion but a near-century-long process - a shifting but persistent struggle that involved thousands of men and women.
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Examines "the short life of a talented young African-American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets--and of one's own nature--when he returns home."
They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African-Americans' bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, night rides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, those suffering this violence engendered were at once too painful to put into words yet too horrible to suppress.

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