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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Up from Slavery” is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856—1915). The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War, the obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, and his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help Black people and other persecuted people of color learn useful, marketable...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st Vintage classics ed.
Physical Desc
717 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arranged chronologically, a comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Hughes contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form and commentary by Hughes's biographer.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jesse J. Holland's The Invisibles is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama and the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American Culture and History.The Invisibles chronicles the African...
Publisher
The Senator John Heinz History Center
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eight essays cover civil rights, emigration, abolitionism, armed resistance, service in the war, and more. It treats war with circumspection from a point of view that defined the conflict as a war over slavery and the opportunity to liberate the masses of Africans from bondage.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 530 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideasabout American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits. Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson's consistent...
Publisher
One World
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 504 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
19) Paul Robeson
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ill.
Language
English