Alice Walker : a critical companion by Bates, Gerri

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Promises to keep : African Americans and the constitutional order, 1776 to the present by Nieman, Donald G., Ph.D

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Meatpackers : an oral history of Black packinghouse workers and their struggle for racial and economic equality by Halpern, Rick

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George Washington Williams : a biography by Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : stalking George Washington Williams -- Soldier and student: William Steward ; Fort Arbuckle ; U.S. colored troops -- Successful clergyman: Elijah W ; Watertown ; Massachusetts -- Editor and publisher: Freedom's journal ; Frederick Douglass ; Mississippi -- A star in the Midwest: Cincinnati daily enquirer ; Republican Party ; Toussaint L'Ouverture -- Republican yeoman: Hamilton County ; Republican Party ; Cincinnati -- On the campaign trail: Hamilton County ; Cincinnati enquirer ; John Sherman -- Lawmaker from Hamilton County: Avondale ; Republican ; Blanche K -- Historian of the race: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center ; Slavery ; George W -- The historian and his public: York globe ; Thomas Fortune ; Fort Pillow -- A touch of distinction: Lewis Hayden ; Emancipation Day ; Cleveland gazette -- A diplomatic appointment: Haiti ; Thomas Hendricks ; Blanche K -- Advancing his people: Robert Gould Shaw ; Sharecrop ; Judge Advocate -- African journey: Bolobo ; Congo Free ; Congo River -- Observer and critic: Sir William Mackinnon ; Lord Vivian ; Congo River -- The final phase -- Appendix 1. …”


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Truevine two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest: a true story of the Jim Crow South by Macy, Beth

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Reconstruction Era : (1865-1877)

Table of Contents: “…Grant: letter to Daniel H. Chamberlain ; Sharecropping contract.…”


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American Congo : the African American freedom struggle in the Delta by Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth, 1949-

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Fannie Lou Hamer : America's freedom fighting woman by Brooks, Maegan Parker

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A kid's guide to African American history by Sanders, Nancy I.

Table of Contents: “…Glories of Africa: Middle ages -- City of Timbuktu -- Life in Africa -- Communities and nations -- Colonial America: Landing in Jamestown -- Beginning of slavery -- Slave trade -- Middle passage -- Landing in America -- Revolutionary War -- Shot heard around the world -- War at sea -- Free African society -- Life on a plantation: Food on a plantation -- Tuba -- Brer Rabbit and his friends -- Tell me a riddle -- Children's rhymes -- Children's songs -- Children's games -- Music and rhythm: Make a rhythm: Make a Rhythm -- Jingle a tambourine -- Build a washtub bass -- Short'nin' bread -- Blue-tail fly -- O freedom -- Uncode a spiritual -- Free African Americans and abolitionists: Emancipation papers -- Election day -- Parmenteering -- Pinkster day -- Quakers and other abolitionists -- Underground railroad -- Civil War and the road to freedom: Reconstruction -- Elected officials -- Sharecropping -- Exodusters -- Juneteenth -- Cowboys -- Buffalo soldiers --Jim Crow -- Turn of the century: Great scientific achievements -- Importance of music -- World at war ... twice -- Sports, America's favorite games -- Track-and-field day -- Civil Rights Movement: How one woman made a difference -- Segregation in schools -- Sit-in movement and freedom rides -- Children helped change a nation -- March on Washington -- Hope for today and a better tomorrow: New African American -- Renaissance -- Kwanzaa -- Celebrate Kwanzaa -- Joining together for a future of hope -- Suggested reading list for kids -- Bibliography -- Index.…”


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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, V. 3 : History

Table of Contents: “…Abolition -- Anglo-American antebellum culture -- Atlantic World -- Civil War Battlefields -- Civil Rights Movement -- Civil War -- Cold War -- Colonial heritage -- Confederate States of America -- Emancipation -- Foodways -- Foreign policy -- Frontier heritage -- Globalization -- Historians -- Historic preservation -- Historic sites -- Indian eras: Paleo-Indian Period ; Archaic Period ; Late Archaic Domestication of Plants and Woodland Period ; Mississippian Period ; Contact to 1700 ; Deerskin Trade, 1700-1800 ; Indian Removal ; 1800-1840 ; Since 1840 -- Jacksonian democracy -- Jeffersonian tradition -- Korean War -- Maritime tradition -- Massive resistance -- Mexican war -- Black migration -- Military bases -- Military tradition -- New Deal -- New Deal agencies & cultural programs -- Northern & Southern philanthropy -- Populism -- Progressivism -- Railroads -- Reconstruction -- Revolutionary era -- Secession -- Sharecropping & tenancy -- Slave culture -- Slave revolts -- Antebellum slavery -- Colonial slavery -- Spanish-American War -- Vietnam War -- War of 1812 -- World War I -- World War II.…”


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God, Harlem U.S.A. : the Father Divine story by Watts, Jill

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Slavery and the literary imagination

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Utopia is creepy : and other provocations by Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The amorality of web 2.0 ; MySpace's vacancy ; The serendipity machine ; California kings ; The Wikipedian crackup ; Excuse me while I blog ; The metabolic thing ; Big trouble in Second Life ; Look at you! ; Digital sharecropping ; Steve's devices ; Twitter dot dash ; Ghosts in the code ; Go Ask Alice's avatar ; Long player ; Should the net forget? …”


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African American history

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Remix : making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy by Lessig, Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…-- Lessons about cultures -- Part 2: Economies -- 6: Two economies: commercial and sharing -- Commercial economies -- Three successes from the Internet's commercial economy -- Three keys to these three successes -- Little brother -- Character of commercial success -- Sharing economies -- Internet sharing economies -- Paradigm case: Wikipedia -- Beyond Wikipedia -- What sharing economies share -- 7: Hybrid economies -- Paradigm case: free software -- Beyond free software -- 8: Economy lessons -- Parallel economies are possible -- Tools help signal which economy a creator creates for -- Crossover are growing -- Strong incentives will increasingly drive commercial entities to hybrids -- Perceptions of fairness will in part mediate the hybrid relationship between sharing and commercial economies -- Sharecropping is not likely to become a term of praise -- Hybrid can help us decriminalize youth -- Part 3: Enabling The Future -- 9: Reforming law -- 1: Deregulating amateur creativity -- 2: Clear title -- 3: Simplify -- 4: Decriminalizing the copy -- 5: Decriminalizing file sharing -- 10: Reforming us -- Chilling the control freaks -- Showing sharing -- Rediscovering the limits of regulation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.…”


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I take my coffee black [reflections on Tupac, musical theater, faith, and being black in America] by Merritt, Tyler

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His name is George Floyd one man's life and the struggle for racial justice by Samuels, Robert, 1984-, Olorunnipa, Toluse, 1986-

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Aaron Henry of Mississippi : inside agitator by Morrison, Minion K. C., 1946-

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His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice by Samuels, Robert, 1984-, Olorunnipa, Toluse, 1986-

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Jim Crow : a historical encyclopedia of the American mosaic

Table of Contents: “…. -- Rustin, Bayard -- Segregation, Residential -- Sharecropping -- Sit-ins -- South Carolina -- Southern Manifesto aka Declaration of Constitutional Principles (1956) -- Sundown towns -- Texas -- Till, Emmett -- Truman, Harry S. -- Tuskegee syphilis experiment -- Virginia -- Voting rights Act of 1965 -- Wallace, George -- Washington, Booker T. -- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. -- White Citizens Council -- World War I -- World War II.…”


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