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Compelling as well as informative, Portraits of African American Life since 1865 gives students a heightened understanding of the evolution of what it has meant to be black and American…
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Nina Mjagkij
African American men, faced with emasculation through lynchings, disenfranchisement, race riots, and Jim Crow laws, hoped that separate YMCAs would provide the opportunity to exercise their manhood and joined in…
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The YMCA and the YWCA have been an integral part of America’s urban landscape since their emergence almost 150 years ago. Yet the significant influence these organizations had on American…
Nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military during World War I, and some 400,000 black civilians migrated from the rural South to the urban North for defense jobs. In…
Jacqueline M. Moore
The beginning of the twentieth century was an important time in African-American history. Segregation and discrimination were on the rise. Two seminal African American figures - Booker T Washington and…
Christopher Waldrep
This book examines African Americans’ strategies for resisting white racial violence from the Civil War until the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, and on into the Clinton…
Paul Harvey
Through the Storm, Through the Night provides a lively overview to the history of African American religion, beginning with the birth of African Christianity amidst the Transatlantic slave trade, and…
Neil A. Wynn
Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term…
Edward Countryman
In this cohesive narrative, Edward Countryman explores the American Revolution in the context of the African American experience, asking a question that blacks have raised since the Revolution: What does…
Julie Winch
In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the borderlands between slavery and freedom in the 350…
Betty Wood
Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional social and economic forces that affected the growth of slavery in early America…
Jerald Podair
Bayard Rustin was a unique twentieth-century American radical voice. A homosexual, World War II draft resister, and ex-communist, Rustin made enormous contributions to the civil rights, socialist, labor, peace, and…
Steven A. Reich
In A Working People, historian Steven A. Reich examines the economic, political and cultural forces that have built and broken America’s black workforce for centuries. From the abolition of slavery…
David McBride
In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care-caused by slavery…
Paul David Escott
Paying Freedom’s Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its…
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. This brief, engaging book covers the range of African Americans’ experiences during the 1930s…
Mark R. Schneider
The victorious end to the first World War offered hope to African Americans who had fought for freedom abroad and hoped to find it at home. Mark R. Schneider recounts…
James E. Westheider
Explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam.
Andrew E. Kersten
Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr, there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the US. Among them was A Philip Randolph, who perhaps…
Burton W. Peretti
Lift Every Voice traces the roots of black music in Africa and slavery and its evolution in the United States from the end of slavery to the present day. The…
David K. Wiggins, George Mason University
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the country…
