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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 Before dying prematurely at the age of fifty-two, he published nearly a dozen books and left behind hundreds of unpublished manuscript pages.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...
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