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Grace and Justice on Death Row
The Race against Time and Texas to Free an Innocent Man
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The chilling Washington Post bestseller of an innocent death row inmate—with a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.
Grace and Justice on Death Row tells the story of Alfred Dewayne Brown, a man who spent over twelve years in prison (ten of them on Texas’ infamous...
Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in...
Martin's Dream
My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
On August 28, 1963 hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flocked to the nation's capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. It was Clayborne Carson's first demonstration. A nineteen year old black...
by John Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
On November 4, 2008, the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States showed that the country had finally overcome its most hurtful, shameful, and enduring legacy—slavery. Though Obama's election showed progress, the John McCain–Sarah Palin campaign and the...
The Invisible Line
A Secret History of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
"The Invisible Line" shines light on one of the most important, but too often hidden, aspects of American history and culture. Sharfstein's narrative of three families negotiating America's punishing racial terrain is a must read for all who are interested in the construction of race in...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Companion to the PBS Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Between 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives, to defeating segregation. During these times, characterized by some as "worse than slavery," African Americans fought the status quo, acquiring education and land and building businesses, churches,...
Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years A Slave
The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
A companion to the classic African-American autobiographical narrative, Twelve Years A Slave, this work presents fascinating new information about the 1841 kidnapping, 1853 rescue, and pre- and post-slavery life of Solomon Northup.
• For the first time, a book documents the full story of...
Snow-Storm in August
Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
A gripping narrative history of the explosive events that drew together Francis Scott Key, Andrew Jackson, and an 18-year-old slave on trial for attempted murder.
In 1835, the city of Washington pulsed with change. As newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, free blacks outnumbered...
A Massacre in Memphis
The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history
In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the...
Making Freedom
The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly became a focal point in the debate over the future of slavery and the nature of the union. In Making Freedom, R. J. M. Blackett uses the experiences...
Lead from the Outside
How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A personal and empowering blueprint—from one of America’s rising Democratic stars—for outsiders who seek to become the ones in charge
Leadership is hard. Convincing others—and often yourself—that you possess the answers and are capable of world-affecting change requires confidence,...
Speak Now Against The Day
The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a “separate...
Black Genius
Inspirational Portraits of African-American Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
“A vibrant narrative composition in which the stirring voices of black intellectuals and artists echo like soloists in an eloquent Ellington suite” (Mel Watkins, author of On the Real Side**).**
Written by New York Times–bestselling author Dick Russell, Black Genius offers intimate, in-depth...
by Kerry Walters
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
The Underground Railroad provides the richest portrayal yet of the first large scale act of interracial collaboration in the United States, mapping out the complex network of routes and safe stations that made escape from slavery in the American South possible. Kerry Walters' stirring...