History - African American & Black

The true story of how Detroit entrepreneurs created a thriving--if illegal--lottery system to support themselves and uplift their communities. Winner: A Michigan Notable Book!Finalist: The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards!A testament to the tenacious spirit embodied in Detroit culture and history, this account reveals how numbers...

"A major study...one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun."--The New York Times Book Review.Author: David Levering LewisPublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 06/01/1997Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...

For readers of The Sum of Us and South to America, an essential new look at the roots of American inequality--and the seeds of its transformation Once the powerhouse of a fledgling country's economy, the Mississippi Delta has been consigned to a narrative of...

In this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you learned in school, which most likely began with slavery and ended with the Civil Rights Movement. Im talking about Black history BEFORE that. Long before that. In...

In this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you typically learn in school, which most likely began with slavery and ended with the Civil Rights Movement. we're talking about Black history BEFORE that. Long before that....

In this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you typically learn in school, which most likely began with slavery and ended with the Civil Rights Movement. we're talking about Black history BEFORE that. Long before that....

Discover the reigns of twelve African queens and warriors from across the continent in this immersive and pioneering history. Njinga Mbande. Nana Yaa Asantewaa. Makobo Modjadji VI. Ranavalona the First. These queens and warriors ruled vast swathes of the African continent, where they led,...

A surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America, where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belonging. Hair is always and everywhere freighted with meaning. In nineteenth-century America, however, hair took on decisive new significance as the...

Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders' violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction, to today. Moving across time, space, and place, White Power uncovers how slaveholders created their own white supremacist police...

Welcome to the the Super Bowl of sports history books, the G.O.A.T. of the storytelling shelf, the most entertaining football book you'll ever read, from New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor winner Derrick D. Barnes. Football rules America. It's the favorite child...

Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, as they say, is history. It is undeniable that President Barack...

Discover more about Stevie Wonder, the music prodigy whose awards include 25 Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Stevie Wonder is one of the most successful singer-songwriter-musicians of our time. Signing his first record deal when he was only eleven, he had...

Who Kidnapped Uncle Tom and Why it Matters delves deeply into Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 international bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin to explore the historical controversy of the main character, Uncle Tom. Through nearly a decade of extensive research, author Dallas C. Terrell, meticulously pulls...

Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an overseer. It was from other field hands that she first heard about the Underground Railroad which she travelled...

Find out how a young boy from the Midwest became one of the most important writers and activists of the Harlem Renaissance in this addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series! Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by...

It's up, up, and away with the Tuskegee Airmen, a heroic group of African American military pilots who helped the United States win World War II. During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they...

From award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes a remarkable picture book biography of William Still, known as Father of the Underground Railroad. William Still's parents escaped slavery but had to leave two of their children behind, a tragedy that haunted the family. As a young...

Even before they were recognized as citizens of the United States, Black women understood that the fights for civil and human rights were inseparable. Over the course of two hundred years, they were at the forefront of national and international movements for social change,...

Describes the experiences of young Blacks who were involved in significant events in the civil rights movement, including Brown vs. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the sit-in movement.Author: Belinda RochellePublisher: Puffin BooksPublished: 02/01/1997Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.98w x...

African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing knowledge brought with the African captives on the slave ships and later merged with Native American, European and other healing...