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In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the ’;borderlands’ between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from …

Since their enslavement in West Africa and transport to plantations of the New World, black people have made music that has been deeply entwined with their religious, community, and individual …

Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the …

Bayard Rustin was a unique twentieth-century American radical voice. A homosexual, World War II draft resister, and ex-communist, he made enormous contributions to the civil rights, socialist, labor, …

This book examines African Americans strategies for resisting white racial violence from the Civil War until the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968 and up to the Clinton era. …

Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best embodied …

In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam. Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of …

In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the Great War. Prior to World War I, most African Americans did …

From the time of its emergence in the United States in 1852, the Young Men’s Christian Association excluded blacks from membership in white branches but encouraged them to form their own associations …

Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African …

In this cohesive narrative, Edward Countryman explores the American Revolution in the context of the African American experience, asking a question that blacks have raised since the Revolution: What …

The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. To Ask for an Equal Chance explores black experiences during this period and the intertwined …

In this book, historian Steven A. Reich examines the economic, political and cultural forces that have beaten and built America’s black workforce since Emancipation. From the abolition of slavery …

Paying Freedoms Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americansboth slave and freefrom the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate …

African Americans today continue to suffer disproportionately from heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. In Caring for Equality David Mc Bride chronicles the struggle by African …

Slavery in Colonial America, 16191776 brings together original sources and recent scholarship to trace the origins and development of African slavery in the American colonies. Distinguished scholar …

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more …

This A-Z Encyclopedia includes information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, and the ways in which these diverse African American organizations have influenced blacks in …

With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical …

With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical …

From the time of its emergence in the United States in 1852, the Young Men’s Christian Association excluded blacks from membership in white branches but encouraged them to form their own associations …