History - African American & Black

Award-winning author and journalist Wil Haygood explores how the Vietnam War became a mirror for the struggle of Black Americans--fighting for freedom abroad while demanding equality at home--and a powerful lens through which to understand the racial and political divides that continue to shape...

The Water Cries represents an ambitious search forthe location of the slave auction houses in one of America's most storiedcities. The author plumbs historical documentation, sifting historicaladvertisements and archiving familial connections. The book is a history told by grandmothers and grandfathers.It addresses a history...

A powerful new voice, telling the American story through three generations of Black mothers. "The Waterbearers is one of the most beautiful and truthful books I've ever read." --Imani Perry, National Book Award-winning author of South to America "An epic love song and remarkable...

The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release. Over ninety years after its publication, it remains a critically acclaimed literary work and still evokes a fresh, contemporary feeling and offers a...

2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. With an introduction by Carl Van Vechten. The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force...

In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves...

Mostly probably a hoax, this letter to slave owners in the ante-bellum American South purports to advise on how to manage a slave population. The writer, himself a slaveowner from the Caribbean, advises other slave masters on his method for controlling black slaves. The...

2018 Reprint. Mostly probably a hoax, this letter to slave owners in the ante-bellum American South purports to advise on how to manage a slave population. The writer, himself a slaveowner from the Caribbean, advises other slave masters on his method for controlling black...

The term racism is understood to mean that race is the principal determinant of specific human traits and capacities and that due to racial differences, one race is inherently superior to all others. Over time, racism has commonly referenced the notion that the White...

A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.Author: Sarah M. BroomPublisher: Grove PressPublished: 06/30/2020Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20dISBN: 9780802149039About...

Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this moving picture book that proves you're never too little to make a difference. Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like...

The black "Americas" Handbook vol. 1. Complete & Finale edition is the finished first edition of a series of books exposing vital knowledge needed to be revealed in order for the race population labelled black America to have a balanced overview about the foundation...

A moving picture book about the history of Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas--and the origins of Juneteenth.When people visit me, they are free--to run, play, gather, and rejoice.They built me to remember.On June 19, 1865, the 250,000 enslaved people of Texas learned they were...

A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH Nominated for the Toronto Book Award Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada's black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger-yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination...

With lyrical verse and dazzling illustrations, this joyful ode to Black hair will empower readers ages 4-8 to celebrate the historical, cultural, and emotional significance of their natural hair. From the intricate coils of kings and queens to the cornrowed maps to freedom of...

How should we remember George Washington's entanglement in slavery? Americans have argued over that question for nearly 250 years. More than any other Founding Father, Washington's ties to slavery have vexed us. He enslaved more people than any of his fellow founders, yet he...

Throughout his life, Benjamin Banneker was known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy, just to name a few pursuits. But even when he was born in Maryland in 1731, he was already an extraordinary person for that time period. He...

This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots...

Erased. Ignored. Hidden. Lost. Underappreciated. No longer. Delve into the unique, inspiring, and world-changing history of Black people. Black leaders, writers, civil rights activists, scientists, and more have influenced, inspired, and changed the societies we live in. This history book's pages are filled with...

A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms...