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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $6.97
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Deborah Gray White
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975
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Publication Date: 1999-02
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Reading Level: 244
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Description: Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South-their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $10.36
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Manufacturer: New Africa Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Ndembwike
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Publisher: New Africa Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2006-11-13
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Reading Level: 148
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Description: This is a general study of Tanzania, the land and its people and history, and a look at contemporary life in the largest country in East Africa and one of the largest on the continent. It is also a general survery of the country's natural resources, crops and minerals, and economic potential. The book also includes some details on the East African Community and the proposed East Africa federation of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania which is supposed to be formed in 2013. Includes maps and photos.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $9.88
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Manufacturer: Pathfinder Press (NY)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Malcolm X
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Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY)
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
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Publication Date: 1992-09-01
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Reading Level: 209
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Description: The imperialists know the only way you will voluntarily turn to the fox is to show you a wolf. In eleven speeches and interviews, Malcolm X presents a revolutionary alternative to this reformist trap, taking up political alliances, women's rights, U.S. intervention in the Congo and Vietnam, capitalism and socialism, and more.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.25
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jill Lepore
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 974.7102
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Publication Date: 2006-08-08
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: New York Burning is a well-told tale of a once-notorious episode that took place in Manhattan in 1741. Though, as Jill Lepore writes, New York's "slave past has long been buried," for most of the 18th century one in five inhabitants of Manhattan were enslaved, making it second only to Charleston, South Carolina, "in a wretched calculus of urban unfreedom." Over the course of a few weeks in 1741, ten fires burned across Manhattan, sparking hysteria and numerous conspiracy rumors. Initially, rival politicians blamed each other for the blazes, but they soon found a common enemy. Based solely on the testimony of one white woman, some 200 slaves were accused of conspiring to burn down the city, murder the resident whites, and take over the local government. Under duress, 80 slaves confessed to the crimes and were forced to implicate others. When the trial was over, 13 black men were burned at the stake, 17 more were hanged (along with four whites accused of working with them), and 70 others were shipped off to the Caribbean where slavery conditions were even worse. By necessity, Jill Lepore bases much of her research on a journal written in 1744 by New York Supreme Court Justice Daniel Horsmanden, which she describes as "one of the most startling and vexing documents in early American history" and "a diary, a mystery, a history, and maybe one of English literature's first detective stories." Adding cultural and political context to the available evidence, Lepore questions whether there was a conspiracy at all, or if it was blind fear run amok that led to the guilty verdicts for so many slaves. As she points out, fear of slave revolt was a real and consistent theme throughout the early days of the colonies. Crisply written and meticulously researched (the book includes several detailed appendices), New York Burning is a gripping narrative of events that led to what one colonist referred to as the "bonfires of the Negroes." --Shawn Carkonen
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nicholas Lemann
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Publisher: Vintage
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Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 1992-03-31
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $14.75
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Manufacturer: University of South Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Genevieve W. Chandler
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Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073075789
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Publication Date: 2008-08-15
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Reading Level: 391
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Description: This title presents oral histories of former slaves along the Carolina coast collected by a woman ahead of her time."Coming Through" marks the first publication of the interviews, stories, and folktales of former slaves living in the Waccamaw Neck region of South Carolina as collected as part of the WPA Federal Writers Project. Between 1936 and 1938, Chandler interviewed more than 100 individuals in All Saints Parish, a portion of Horry and Georgetown Counties located between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic Ocean. Her subjects spoke freely with her on topics ranging from slave punishment to folk medicine, from conditions in the Jim Crow South to the exploits of Brer Rabbit.The subjects range in age from the 5-year-old Cato Singleton to 104-year-old Welcome Bees. These interviews form an intimate portrait of a fascinating subculture of the Carolina Coast and Sea Islands as shared with a woman who was able to move freely within this traditionally insular world. Chandler had no formal training as an oral historian or folklorist, yet the sophistication of her work as documented here anticipates developments in these fields of study a generation beforehand. Her detailed descriptions add social context to folktales and her careful and systematic renderings of the Gullah language have since been praised as foundational work by Creole linguists.The collection includes a foreword by Charles W. Joyner, Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University; the editors' survey of the WPA project and of the nuances of Gullah language and culture; and, 15 photographs of the subjects taken by renowned photographer Bayard Wooten - many published here for the first time.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.02
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael K. Honey
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 331.892813637209768
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Publication Date: 2008-01-14
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Reading Level: 640
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Description: "The definitive appreciation of the Memphis garbage strike, one of the pivotal human-rights moments in late twentieth-century America."—David Levering Lewis
Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a months-long public-employee strike that would shake the nation. With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, this "first-rate chronicle" (Seattle Times) relates the riveting story of the 1968 strike that shook Memphis—and claimed Martin Luther King's life. 16 pages of illustrations.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $8.00
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Manufacturer: Grove Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Grove Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
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Publication Date: 1994-01-11
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for abolishing racial inequality in the United States underwent a vast transformation. Breaking from the Black Muslims, he moved away from the black militarism prevalent in his earlier years only to be shot down by an assassin's bullet.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.88
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Allen C. Guelzo
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.714
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Publication Date: 2006-11-07
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: One of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching accomplishment of our greatest president. No single official paper in American history changed the lives of as many Americans as Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. But no American document has been held up to greater suspicion. Its bland and lawyerlike language is unfavorably compared to the soaring eloquence of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural; its effectiveness in freeing the slaves has been dismissed as a legal illusion. And for some African-Americans the Proclamation raises doubts about Lincoln himself. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation dispels the myths and mistakes surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation and skillfully reconstructs how America's greatest president wrote the greatest American proclamation of freedom.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.73
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Manufacturer: One World/Ballantine
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mamie Till-Mobley::Christopher Benson
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Publisher: One World/Ballantine
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364.134
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Publication Date: 2004-12-28
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: There are many heroes of the civil rights movement—men and women we can look to for inspiration. Each has a unique story, a path that led to a role as leader or activist. Death of Innocence is the heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring story of one such hero: Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till—an innocent fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and who paid for it with his life. His outraged mother’s actions galvanized the civil rights movement, leaving an indelible mark on American racial consciousness.
Mamie Carthan was an ordinary African-American woman growing up in 1930s Chicago, living under the strong, steady influence of her mother’s care. She fell in love with and married Louis Till, and while the marriage didn’t last, they did have a beautiful baby boy, Emmett.
In August 1955, Emmett was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by two white men and brutally murdered. His crime: allegedly whistling at a white woman in a convenience store. His mother began her career of activism when she insisted on an open-casket viewing of her son’s gruesomely disfigured body. More than a hundred thousand people attended the service. The trial of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, accused of kidnapping and murdering Emmett (the two were eventually acquitted of the crime), was considered the first full-scale media event of the civil rights movement.
What followed altered the course of this country’s history, and it was all set in motion by the sheer will, determination, and courage of Mamie Till-Mobley—a woman who would pull herself back from the brink of suicide to become a teacher and inspire hundreds of black children throughout the country.
Mamie Till-Mobley, who died in 2003 just as she completed this memoir, has honored us with her full testimony: “I focused on my son while I considered this book. . . . The result is in your hands. . . . I am experienced, but not cynical. . . . I am hopeful that we all can be better than we are. I’ve been brokenhearted, but I still maintain an oversized capacity for love.” Death of Innocence is an essential document in the annals of American civil rights history, and a painful yet beautiful account of a mother’s ability to transform tragedy into boundless courage and hope.
From the Hardcover edition.
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