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Author
Language
English
Description
Describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schools--most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama--to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps....
3) Zambia
Author
Pub. Date
1965
Physical Desc
viii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.Army Life in a Black Regiment is a riveting and empathetic account of the lessons learned from an encounter between a New England intellectual and nearly a thousand newly freed slaves. In the fall of 1862, Thomas Wentworth Higginson was asked to take command of the 1st Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers, and he immediately understood the significance of the experiment...
11) Antelopes
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the various species of African antelope.
Author
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in 1958, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
[Library ed.].
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Booker T. Washington, a slave freed after the Civil War who became a leading educator of African Americans and whose Tuskegee Institute taught farming, carpentry, sewing, and other skills.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation's most visible and most powerful African-American leader. He won passage of a federal anti-lynching law, hosted one of the premier salons of the Harlem Renaissance, created the legal strategy that led to Brown...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Born into poverty, Richard Wright managed to complete only an eighth-grade education. Yet by at the age of 33, he was the best-selling author of what would become an American classic, Native Son. Before dying prematurely at the age of fifty-two, he published nearly a dozen books and left behind hundreds of unpublished manuscript pages. This biography traces Wright's life, while he attempted to answer the question, "How can I live freely?"
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 155 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most prolific African-American authors, scholars, and leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Alexander traces the development of Du Bois' thought over time.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
vii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer delivered a heart-wrenching testimony before the Democratic National Convention's (DNC) Credentials Committee. In this speech, Hamer represented both the concerns of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and the limits of American democracy when she proclaimed: 'I question America. Is this the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 147 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Madam C. J. Walker--reputed to be Americas first self-made woman millionaire--has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and working-class African American women. By the time of her death in...