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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $16.16
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Manufacturer: Michigan State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sidney Fine
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Publisher: Michigan State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 977.43400496073
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Publication Date: 2007-07
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Reading Level: 648
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Description: On July 23, 1967, the Detroit police raided a blind pig (after-hours drinking establishment), touching off the most destructive urban riot of the 1960s. It took the U.S. Army, the Michigan National Guard, the state police, and the Detroit police department - 17,000 men - more than a week to restore order. When all was done, the riot had claimed 43 lives (mostly black) and resulted in nearly 700 injuries. Over 7,000 individuals were arrested, with property damage estimates over $75 million. Yet, Detroit had been lauded nationally as a "model city" in the governance of a large industrial metropolis.On the 40th anniversary of this nation-changing event, we are pleased to reissue Sidney Fine's seminal work - a detailed study of what happened, why, and with what consequences.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $15.94
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Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: C. Fraser Smith
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.11960730752
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Publication Date: 2008-05-30
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Reading Level: 344
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Description: Though he lived throughout much of the South -- and even worked his way into parts of the North for a time -- Jim Crow was conceived and buried in Maryland. From Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney's infamous decision in the Dred Scott case to Thurgood Marshall's eloquent and effective work on Brown v. Board of Education, the battle for black equality is very much the story of Free State women and men. Here, Baltimore Sun columnist C. Fraser Smith recounts that tale through the stories, words, and deeds of famous, infamous, and little-known Marylanders. He traces the roots of Jim Crow laws from Dred Scott to Plessy v. Ferguson and describes the parallel and opposite early efforts of those who struggled to establish freedom and basic rights for African Americans. Following the historical trail of evidence, Smith relates latter-day examples of Maryland residents who trod those same steps, from the thrice-failed attempt to deny black people the vote in the early twentieth century to nascent demonstrations for open access to lunch counters, movie theaters, stores, golf courses, and other public and private institutions -- struggles that occurred decades before the now-celebrated historical figures strode onto the national civil rights scene. Smith's lively account includes the grand themes and the state's major players in the movement -- Frederick Douglass, Harriett Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, and Lillie May Jackson, among others -- and also tells the story of the struggle via several of Maryland's important but relatively unknown men and women -- such as Gloria Richardson, John Prentiss Poe, William L. "Little Willie" Adams, and Walter Sondheim -- who prepared Jim Crow's grave and waited for the nation to deliver the body.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Vanessa Siddle Walker
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 371.9796756575
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Publication Date: 1996-06-17
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Reading Level: 276
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Description: African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in providing nurturing educational environments in spite of the injustices of segregation. Vanessa Siddle Walker tells the story of one such school in rural North Carolina, the Caswell County Training School, which operated from 1934 to 1969. She focuses especially on the importance of dedicated teachers and the principal, who believed their jobs extended well beyond the classroom, and on the community's parents, who worked hard to support the school. According to Walker, the relationship between school and community was mutually dependent. Parents sacrificed financially to meet the school's needs, and teachers and administrators put in extra time for professional development, specialized student assistance, and home visits. The result was a school that placed the needs of African American students at the center of its mission, which was in turn shared by the community. Walker concludes that the experience of CCTS captures a segment of the history of African Americans in segregated schools that has been overlooked and that provides important context for the ongoing debate about how best to educate African American children.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.20
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Manufacturer: Broadway
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar::Anthony Walton
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Publisher: Broadway
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.542108996073
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Publication Date: 2005-05-10
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers in Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $3.98
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Howell Raines
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.40975
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Publication Date: 1983-09-29
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Reading Level: 496
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $1.25
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Manufacturer: Kodansha America
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sarah Delany::Annie Elizabeth Delany::Amy Hill Hearth
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Publisher: Kodansha America
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.04960730092
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Publication Date: 1993-09-15
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: "I never thought I'd see the day that the world would want to hear what two old Negro women have to say," says Bessie Delany. But Bessie and her sister, Sadie, born in 1893 and 1891, saw plenty, by eating a low-fat, high-vegetable diet and outliving the "old Rebby [rebel] boys" who once almost lynched Sadie. This remarkable memoir was a long-running bestseller, spawning a Broadway play and adding to their list of seasoned acquaintances (Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Cab Calloway) such spring chickens as Hillary Clinton. Born to a former slave whose owners broke the law by teaching him to read, the sisters got a solid education. North Carolina was paradise--despite the Rebbies--until Jim Crow reared its hideous head. The girls had loved to ride in the front of the trolley because the wind in their hair made them feel free, but one day the conductor sadly ordered them to the back. The family moved to New York, where Bessie became the town's second black woman dentist and Sadie the first black woman home-ec teacher. They befriended everyone who was anyone in the Harlem Renaissance (their brother won the 1925 Congressional primary there), pursued careers instead of husbands, and lived peacefully together, despite their differences. Sadie was more peaceable, like Booker T. Washington, while Bessie was a W.E.B. Du Bois-style militant. They're funny: Bessie notes that blacks must be sharp to get ahead, "But if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere." And they are wise: Sadie says, "Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet."
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.67
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jack M. Bloom
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
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Publication Date: 1987-02
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Reading Level: 278
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $11.10
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.362082
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Publication Date: 1996-04
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: '...a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history' - Drew Faust. Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse. The contributors are Hilary Beckles, Barbara Bush, Cheryl Ann Cody, David Barry Gaspar, David P. Geggus, Virginia Meacham Gould, Mary Karasch, Wilma King, Bernard Moitt, Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe, Robert A. Olwell, Claire Robertson, Robert W. Slenes, Susan M. Socolow, Richard H. Steckel, and Brenda E. Stevenson.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $2.05
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Manufacturer: Atria
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Betty DeRamus
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Publisher: Atria
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2005-12-27
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together -- and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property. Here you'll meet, among other extraordinary characters, a fugitive slave from Virginia who spends seventeen years searching for his wife. A Georgia slave couple that sails for England with federal troops trailing behind. A white woman who falls in love with her deceased husband's slave. A young slave girl who is delivered to her fiancé inside a wooden chest. Acclaimed journalist Betty DeRamus gleaned these anecdotes from descendants of runaway slave couples, unpublished memoirs, Civil War records, census data, magazines, and dozens of previously untapped sources. This is a book about people pursuing love and achievement in a time of hate and severely limited opportunities. Though not all of the stories in Forbidden Fruit end in triumph, they all celebrate hope, passion, courage, and triumph of the human spirit.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $17.50
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kimberly Springer
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.4208996073
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Publication Date: 2005
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: The first in-depth analysis of the black feminist movement, Living for the Revolution fills in a crucial but overlooked chapter in African American, women’s, and social movement history. Through original oral history interviews with key activists and analysis of previously unexamined organizational records, Kimberly Springer traces the emergence, life, and decline of several black feminist organizations: the Third World Women’s Alliance, Black Women Organized for Action, the National Black Feminist Organization, the National Alliance of Black Feminists, and the Combahee River Collective. The first of these to form was founded in 1968; all five were defunct by 1980. Springer demonstrates that these organizations led the way in articulating an activist vision formed by the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality. The organizations that Springer examines were the first to explicitly use feminist theory to further the work of previous black women’s organizations. As she describes, they emerged in response to marginalization in the civil rights and women’s movements, stereotyping in popular culture, and misrepresentation in public policy. Springer compares the organizations’ ideologies, goals, activities, memberships, leadership styles, finances, and communication strategies. Reflecting on the conflicts, lack of resources, and burnout that led to the demise of these groups, she considers the future of black feminist organizing, particularly at the national level. Living for the Revolution is an essential reference: it provides the history of a movement that influenced black feminist theory and civil rights activism for decades to come.
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