Joining Places

Anthony E Kaye

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighbo... Lees meer

Geographies of Liberation

Alex Lubin

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In this absorbing transnational history, Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nation... Lees meer

Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South

Kimberly M Welch

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the te... Lees meer

From the Bullet to the Ballot

Jakobi Williams

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's ... Lees meer

Upbuilding Black Durham

Leslie Brown

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress.... Lees meer

A Movement Without Marches

Lisa Levenstein

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles t... Lees meer

Not Straight, Not White

Kevin Mumford

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times--from civil right... Lees meer

American Africans in Ghana

Kevin K Gaines

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African A... Lees meer

The Color of the Law

Gail Williams O'Brien

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accu... Lees meer

The Black Arts Movement

James Smethurst

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 196... Lees meer

Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta

Karen Ferguson

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates ... Lees meer

Journey of Hope

Kenneth C Barnes

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While ... Lees meer

Battling the Plantation Mentality

Laurie B Green

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the... Lees meer

Game of Privilege

Lane Demas

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories o... Lees meer

Doctoring Freedom

Gretchen Long

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an ... Lees meer

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

Traci Parker

• Hardcover | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens o... Lees meer

Way Up North in Louisville

Luther Adams

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and free... Lees meer

Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945

Beth Tompkins Bates

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists ... Lees meer

North of the Color Line

Sarah-Jane Mathieu

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada afte... Lees meer

W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

Stephanie J Shaw

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussio... Lees meer

Proudly We Can Be Africans

James H Meriwether

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitude... Lees meer

Examining Tuskegee

Susan M Reverby

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound meta... Lees meer

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars... Lees meer

Making Gullah

Melissa L Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African ro... Lees meer