Strategies for Survival

William Dusinberre

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through former enslaved people's own words. The source of this landmark content is a remarka... Lees meer

Migrants Against Slavery

Philip J Schwarz

• Hardcover | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from a slave s... Lees meer

Bitter Fruits of Bondage

Armstead L Robinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinson's magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the histor... Lees meer

A Little Child Shall Lead Them

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the Americ... Lees meer

A House Divided

Patience Essah

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• Delaware stood outside the primary streams of New World emancipation. Despite slavery's virtual demise in that state during the antebellum years and D... Lees meer

Virginia Landmarks of Black History

• Hardcover | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• The 64 sites described in this book are a testament to the contribution that African-Americans have made to Virginia history over the last four centur... Lees meer

A New Plantation South

Jeannie M Whayne

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• Jeannie M. Whayne traces the emergence of a transformed southern plantation system in the Arkansas delta decades after the end of the Civil War. By ma... Lees meer

Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction

Midori Takagi

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• RICHMOND WAS NOT only the capital of Virginia and of the Confederacy; it was also one of the most industrialized cities south of the Mason-Dixon Line.... Lees meer

Cultivation and Culture

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• So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work... Lees meer

Word, Like Fire

Valerie C Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• Maria Stewart is believed by many to have been the first American woman of any race to give public political speeches. In Word, Like Fire, Valerie C. ... Lees meer

The Struggle for Change

Marvin T Chiles

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• A Black-majority city with a history of the most severe segregation and inequity, Richmond is still grappling with this legacy as it moves into the tw... Lees meer

The Segregated Scholars

Francille Rusan Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• In Segregated Scholars Francille Rusan Wilson explores the lives and work of fifteen black labor historians and social scientists as seen through the ... Lees meer

Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery

Henry Goings

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in... Lees meer

Schooling Jim Crow

Jay Winston Driskell

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• In 1919 the NAACP organized a voting bloc powerful enough to compel the city of Atlanta to budget $1.5 million for the construction of schools for bla... Lees meer

Freedom Summer

Sally Belfrage

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• Freedom Summer is a richly detailed account of a young white woman who participated in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's summer project ... Lees meer

Whispers of Rebellion

Michael L Nicholls

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• An ambitious but abortive plan to revolt that ended in the conviction and hanging of over two dozen men, Gabriel's Conspiracy of 1800 sought nothing l... Lees meer

A Little Child Shall Lead Them

• Hardcover | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the Americ... Lees meer

Keep on Keeping on

Brian J Daugherity

• Hardcover | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• Virginia was a battleground state in the struggle to implement Brown v. Board of Education, with one of the South's largest and strongest NAACP units ... Lees meer

Segregation's Science

Gregory Michael Dorr

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how euge... Lees meer

Rituals of Race

Alessandra Lorini

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• In this sophisticated study of the struggle for African American human rights in America, Alessandra Lorini examines public events in New York City fr... Lees meer

A House Divided

Patience Essah

• Hardcover | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• Delaware stood outside the primary streams of New World emancipation. Despite slavery's virtual demise in that state during the antebellum years and D... Lees meer

We Face the Dawn

Margaret Edds

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully con... Lees meer

Black Prisoners and Their World

Mary Ellen Curtin

• Paperback | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• In the late nineteenth century, prisoners in Alabama, the vast majority of them African Americans, were forced to work as coal miners under the most h... Lees meer

Enterprising Southerners

Robert C Kenzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Carter G. Woodson Institute
• Surprisingly, there existed a small population of southern blacks who experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. This book... Lees meer