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Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 339 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The survivor of a difficult childhood and youth, Rubin Carter rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. However, his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of the murder of three white people in a New Jersey bar. While in prison, Carter chronicled the events that led him from the ring to three consecutive life sentences and 10 years in solitary confinement. His story was a cry for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This guide offers practical suggestions for black Americans to develop mental awareness, a psychological game plan, and an increased level of business savvy in order to negotiate the minefield of the white work world. Included are commonsense scenarios and real-life solutions that will help every black American evaluate his or her options from being hired to being fired, from adjusting one's attitude to suing an employer. Tips are offered on how African...
Author
Pub. Date
1969
Physical Desc
xvii, 329 pages 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. Based on the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, in which a group of white supremacists rioted and overthrew the elected government of Wilmington, North Carolina, killing hundreds of African Americans and displacing thousands more-The Marrow of Tradition follows two interconnected families on opposite sides of the violence.
Set...
Author
Pub. Date
1883
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
391 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
The Story of an African Farm (1883) is a novel by South African political activist and writer Olive Schreiner. Her first published novel, The Story of an African Farm was a bestseller upon its release despite being criticized for its portrayal of controversial social, religious, and political themes. Part Bildungsroman, part philosophical fiction, the novel is recognized as a groundbreaking work for its exploration of feminism, atheism, and the influence...
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English
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"It's around 7:00 A.M. on December 4, 1969, and attorney Jeff Haas is in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiancée. She is describing how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard one officer say, "He's still alive." She then heard two shots. A second officer said, "He's good and dead now." She looks at Jeff and asks, "What can you do?" The Assassination of Fred Hampton is Haas's personal...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (vii, 294 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
These expos investigate the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant gang accused of terroristic intentions. Interwoven into the narrative is the dynamic influence of leader Jeff Fort, who despite his flamboyance and high visibility instilled a rigid structure and discipline that afforded the young men a refuge and a sense of purpose in an often-hopeless community. Details...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Documenting multiple challenges at every turn as a target for racism from society and sexism both inside and outside of the Negro League this is the unique story of the first woman to play professional baseball on a men's team, breaking barriers in sports while believing, "There's got to be a first in everything. Maybe it will be me." Highlighting aggressive and resourceful behaviors, the text explains that as players began to leave the Negro League...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Known as the Cool Gent, King of the Dusties, and the Mayor of Bronzeville, Herb Kent is one of radio's most illustrious and legendary stars. This fascinating autobiography details both the high and low points of Kent's life including his poverty-stricken childhood in the Chicago housing projects and his straight-A years at Northwestern University while providing a vivid picture of African American music, culture, and personalities from the second...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 754 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most familiar events and figures in a revealing new light. Authors Ned and Constance Sublette tell the brutal story of how the slavery industry made the reproductive labor of the people it referred to as "breeding women" essential to the young country's expansion. Captive African Americans in the slave nation...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxi, 328 pages)
Language
English
Description
A spiritual as well as a factual autobiography, this is a self-portrait of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a 20th-century icon and controversial victim of the U.S. justice system turned spokesperson for the wrongfully convicted. Exploring Carters personal philosophy born of the unimaginable duress of wrongful imprisonment and conceived through his defiance of the brutal institution of prison and a decade of solitary confinement this work offers hope for...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 178 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. The discussion shows that contemporary African American culture is usually seen as an urban culture, one that arose out of the Great Migration and has contributed to international trends in fashion, music, and the arts ever since. However, because of this urban focus, many...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (212 pages) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
With attitude and inspiration, this lifestyle guide shows black women how they can be healthy, hippy, and happy by eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes as part of an active lifestyle. African American women face a health crisis and explosive rates of death and disability from heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, and this book provides authoritative research to illustrate how a plant-based diet can reverse this trend....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 278 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
How do you hold on to hope after more than twenty years of imprisonment? For Alice Marie Johnson the answer lies with God. For years, Alice lived a normal life without a criminal record -- she was a manager at FedEx, a wife, and a mother. But after an emotionally and financially tumultuous period in her life left her with few options, she turned to crime as a way to pay off her mounting debts. Convicted in 1996 for her nonviolent involvement in a...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Author Denise Sullivan explores the bond between music and social change and traces the evolution of protest music over the past five decades. The marriage of music and social change did not originate with the civil rights and black power movements of the 1950s and 1960s, but never before had the relationship between the two been so dynamic. Black music altered the road to liberation for minorities, sparking creativity and resulting in a genre-encompassing...
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English
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"When Darnell L. Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire as he was walking home from school. Darnell was tall and awkward and constantly bullied for being gay. That afternoon, one of the boys doused him with gasoline and tried lighting a match. It was too windy, and luckily Darnell's aunt arrived in time to grab Darnell and pull him to safety. It was not the last time he would face death. What happens...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
In the early morning hours of December 8, 1969, hundreds of SWAT officers engaged in a violent battle with a handful of Los Angeles based members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). Five hours and 5,000 rounds of ammunition later, 3 SWAT team members and 3 Black Panthers lay wounded. For the Panthers and the community that supported them, the shootout symbolized a victory, and a key reason for that victory was the actions of a 19-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" to the Civil Rights-era declaration "I AM a Man," antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into question by the biological sciences. While this conflict between liberal humanism and biological materialism animates debates in posthumanism and critical race...
38) Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 414 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Examining the culture and politics of the Black Power era of the late 1960s, this book explores the relationship of soul music to the Black Power movement from the vantage point of the musicians and black revolutionaries themselves. The 1960s were a turbulent time for race relations in the United States, but no other area in the country epitomized the radical social change that was taking place more than the San Francisco Bay Area the epicenter of...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language
English
Description
A Light Shines in Harlem tells the fascinating history of New York s first charter school, the Sisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem, and the early days of the states charter school movement. Told through the experiences of those on the inside including a hero of the civil rights movement; a Wall Street star; inner-city activists; and real-world educators, parents, and students, this book shows how they all came together to create a groundbreaking...
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Language
English
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"By the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates's prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin Luther King, Jr. This brilliant examination of the great civil rights icon and the movement he led provides a lasting portrait of a man whose dream shaped American history." -- Page [4] cover.