The African American Almanac
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Includes a chronology chapter that highlights important events in African American history, chapters on African American Firsts, significant documents in African American history, African American landmarks, arranged geographically by state, and an outline of the a history of the Diaspora.
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History
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Identifies and addresses broad themes critical to understanding the texture of the cultures, achievements, challenges, and promise of the 150 million people of African descent who live in North America, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. It is an authoritative and comprehensive information about Black history, figures, and accomplishments throughout the Americas.
Voices of the African American Experience
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From early accounts of free blacks in the Colonies to slave narratives recorded by Works Progress Administration employees in the 1930s to a recent speech by Senator Barack Obama, this collection offers a treasure trove of carefully selected primary documents from and concerning African Americans.
Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas
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When Columbus arrived in 1492, the first free black person--a sailor--set foot in the Americas. Over the next 400 years, as slavery spread and became entrenched in the Western Hemisphere, free blacks built communities throughout North and South America, playing a critical role in every region, colony, and country. From Canada to the Caribbean to Chile, they established vital economic and social institutions, championed the cause of abolition, and formed a bridge between the worlds of free whites and enslaved blacks.
The Underground Railroad: A Reference Guide
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Original documents, from key legislation like The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 to first-person narratives of escaping slaves. Offers a fresh, revealing look at the efforts of hundreds of dedicated persons―white and black, men and women, from all walks of life―to help slave fugitives find freedom in the decades leading up to the Civil War, including Levi Coffin, William Lloyd Garrison, Robert Purvis, and Mary Ann Shadd.
American Experience - Freedom Summer
"In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states ...."
Black American Experience: African Americans Who Left Their Stamp on History
This 15 video collection explores the lives of influential African Americans who have helped paved the future in a way no other would have done. Those featured include Ida B. Wells, Ralph Ellison, and Mary McLeod Bethune.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
This film " is the first feature-length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails."
Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott
Karen Haas, Lane Curator of Photographs. Lecture. Dec 28, 2016. Discusses historical photographs in an exhibit of Gordon Parks' work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
How Racism Harms White Americans.
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Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on white Americans. In a departure from analyses of racism that have focused primarily on white power and privilege, Bracey trains his focus on the high price that white people, especially working class whites, have paid for more than two centuries of divisive race-based policies and attitudes.
Stone Ghosts: A Journey Through The Confederate South, From Charlottesville To Selma | NBC News
"From Charlottesville to Selma, NBC's Trymaine Lee and the New York Times' John Eligon travel the South to understand hate, heritage, and the legacy of the Confederacy."
The Wereth Eleven.
"During World War II, 1.2 million African-Americans served in America's Armed Forces. Fully 125,000 served overseas. 708 were killed. Among these were The Wereth Eleven. .... "The Wereth Eleven" is ... based on the true story of eleven African-American soldiers who were ruthlessly murdered by the Nazi SS during the Battle of the Bulge."
Search the library catalog for more books on African American history. Sort your results by Reverse Year to see the most recently published first. The ACC History Department has a list of titles on African American history and another list of books on slavery.
African American Historic Places
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Culled from the records of the National Register of Historic Places, a roster of all types of significant properties across the United States, African American Historic Places includes over 800 places in 42 states and two U.S. territories that have played a role in black American history. Banks, cemeteries, clubs, colleges, forts, homes, hospitals, schools, and shops are but a few of the types of sites explored in this volume, which is an invaluable reference guide for researchers, historians, preservationists, and anyone interested in African American culture. Also included are eight insightful essays on the African American experience, from migration to the role of women, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. The authors represent academia, museums, historic preservation, and politics, and utilize the listed properties to vividly illustrate the role of communities and women, the forces of migration, the influence of the arts and heritage preservation, and the struggles for freedom and civil rights. Together they lead to a better understanding of the contributions of African Americans to American history. They illustrate the events and people, the designs and achievements that define African American history. And they pay powerful tribute to the spirit of black America.
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
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The black experience in America-- starting from its origins in western Africa up to the present day-- is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. Scholarship on the geographic, social, economic, and cultural journeys of African Americans, together with vivid portraits of key black leaders, complete this comprehensive resource.
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
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An award-winning historian's sweeping interpretation of the African American experience. Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and, since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. These epic migrations have made and remade African American life.
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
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The preeminent history of African Americans, this best-selling book charts the journey of African Americans from their origins in Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, struggles for freedom in the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States, various migrations, and the continuing quest for racial equality.
Life upon these Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship and including more than seven hundred images--ancient maps, fine art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--the book focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the signal achievements of people famous and obscure. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates disabuses us of the presumption of a single "black experience."
Children of Fire: A History of African Americans
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Masterfully structured and beautifully written, it reflects the mature work of a great historian with a firm and deep grasp of his subject. I learned something new on every page. It should be required reading not only of students of the African American experience, but of fellow historians as well. --―Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner; Lynton History Prize Winner .
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
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Rich with historical documents and photos, this narrative dispels the myths surrounding the history of slavery in this country, revealing the North's deep dependence on slave commerce and its own exploitation of slave labor.