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"The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything--including the plum NFL job he had been...
42) Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these "debts," prisoners were sold...
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xv, 272 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state. The ballfield was an escape from the world's worst problems, top athletes were treated like heroes, and cheering for the home team was as easy and innocent as hot dogs and beer. "No news on the sports page" was a governing principle in newsrooms. That was then. Today, sports arenas have been transformed into staging grounds for American patriotism and the...
45) The lost eleven: the forgotten story of black American soldiers brutally massacred in World War II
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English
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"Nearly forgotten by history, this is the story of the Wereth Eleven, African-American soldiers who fought courageously for freedom in WWII--only to be ruthlessly executed by Nazi troops during the Battle of the Bulge, "--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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xiv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"The history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn't been told is the story of whaling's leaders of color in an era when the only other option was slavery. Whaling was one of the first American industries to exhibit diversity. A man became a captain not because he was white or well-connected, but because he knew how to kill a whale. Along the way, he could...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
©1985
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xiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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An historical study of the roles of Black women examines the weight of racial prejudice and sexual discrimination on the dual responsibilities of Black women as bread winners and guardians of family and community stability.
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English
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"The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas, the first principals in the Dance Theatre of Harlem, who traveled the world as highly celebrated stars in their field and whose legacy was erased from history until now. At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarça was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company-the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She was the first Black ballerina on the cover of Dance...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
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568 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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The story of emancipated slave Elizabeth Mayfield traces her rise as the matriarch of a family of musically gifted Southern women who overcome brutal obstacles while witnessing key moments in American history.
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English
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From the renowned Tuskegee Institute of Alabama, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881, this one-of-a-kind narrative cookbook traces the history and heritage of Tuskegee through reminiscences, vintage photographs, poetry, journal entries and more than 200 recipes that celebrate the diverse and mothering flavors of Southern African American cuisine.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This title looks at how African women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic dimensions.
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Publisher
Spinner Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
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ix, 118 p. : ill. (b&w), photographs (b&w) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Integration of the Nantucket's schools followed eight years of contention in the 1840s. Boycotts, petitions, and violence resulted in the first law in the United States to guarantee equal education for all citizens regardless of race.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jenn M. Jackson has been known to bring deep historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women's freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost in the meantime? A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xx, 633 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
Description
""The story of the Chicago Defender is the story of race in the twentieth century." -- Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded The Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed...
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Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of 'Aunt Jemima' and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images are sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represent the untold stories of enslaved men and women who had a significant impact on the nation's culinary and hospitality traditions even as they were forced to prepare...
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