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Amazing Grace
Author: Eric Metaxes
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 1400104270
Year: 2007
Category: History |
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April 15, 1947, marked
the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson
stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the
first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth
century. World War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now
Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home front---and
Robinson had a chance to lead the way.
He was an unlikely hero. He had little experience in organized baseball.
His swing was far from graceful. And he was assigned to play first base,
a position he had never tried before that season. But the biggest
concern was his temper. Robinson was an angry man who played an
aggressive style of ball. In order to succeed he would have to control
himself in the face of what promised to be a brutal assault by opponents
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Description: Amazing Grace tells the story of the
remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce
(1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's
extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and
member of Parliament.
At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to
abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as
well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a
victory achieved just three days before his death in 1833.
Metaxas discovers in this unsung hero a man of whom it can truly be
said: he changed the world. Before Wilberforce, few thought slavery was
wrong. After Wilberforce, most societies in the world came to see it as
a great moral wrong... |
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| On The Shoulders of
Giants |
My Journey
Through the Harlem Renaissance
By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
Narrated by Richard Allen
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Narrative of the Life
of Frederick Douglass
Author: Frederick Douglass
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 140010047X
Year: 2005
Category: Autobiography |
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1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance produced a bright beacon of light
that paved the way for African Americans all over the country. The
unapologetic writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, the fervent
fiction and poetry of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, the
groundbreaking art of Aaron Douglas and William H. Johnson, and the
triumphant music of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong gave voice and
expression to the thoughts and emotions that Jim Crow segregation laws
had long sought to stifle. |
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Description:
Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave
who went on to become a famous orator, writer, journalist, U.S.
minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the
most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking
narrative takes the reader into the world of the South's antebellum
plantations and reveals the daily terrors he suffered as a slave, the
brutalities of his owners and overseers, and his harrowing escape to the
North. This book sheds invaluable light on one of the most unjust
periods in the history of America.
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Triumph
The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
AUDIO CD
ISBN: 1400103673 |
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Up From Slavery
Author: Booker T. Washington
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 1400102677
Year:2006
Category: History/Autobiography |
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Description: In 1936, against a
backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers looming, an African
American son of sharecroppers set three world records and won an
unprecedented four gold medals, single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth
of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games
is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends
sports. But it is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of
one remarkable man.
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Description: he history of
the African in America has often been personalized or embodied within
one individual, one spokes-person who represented the sentiments of the
moment. In the South of the 1890s, Booker T. Washington stood as the
often controversial personification of the aspirations of the black
masses. The Civil War had ended, casting an uneducated black mass adrift
or, equally tenuous, creating a class of sharecroppers still dependent
on the whims of their former owners...
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In the Name of the
Father
Author: Francois Furstenberg
Price: $34.99
ISBN:
1400102782
Year: 2006
Category: History |
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Jefferson’s Secrets
Author: Andrew Burstein
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 1400101484
Year: 2005
Category: Biography/Autobiography |
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Description:
A revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young
nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington and
how slavery shaped American nationalism in ways that define and haunt us
still...
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Description:
In this moving and intimate look at the final days of our most enigmatic
president, Andrew Burstein sheds new light on what Thomas Jefferson
actually thought about sexuality, race, gender, and politics.
Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, leaving behind a series of
mysteries that captured the imaginations of historical investigators-an
interest rekindled by the recent revelation that he fathered a child by
Sally Hemmings, a woman he legally owned-yet there is still surprisingly
little known about him as a man. In Jefferson's Secrets Andrew Burstein
focuses on Jefferson's last days to create an emotionally powerful
portrait of the uncensored private citizen who was also a giant of a
man...
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From Midnight to
Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
Author: Jacqueline Tobin and Hettie Jones
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 1400103541
Year: 2007
Category: History |
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
Author: Nichols Lehmann
Price: $29.99
ISBN:
1400102839
Year: 2006
Category: Military History |
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The Underground
Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife
with dangers. While there were dedicated conductors and safe houses,
there were also arduous nights in the mountains and days in threatening
towns. For those who made it to Midnight, the code name given to
Detroit, the Detroit River became their Jordan. And Canada became their
"land of Canaan," the Promised Land where they could live freely in
various black settlements under the protection of British law. One of
these settlements was known as Dawn. In prose rich in detail and
imagery, From Midnight to Dawn
presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the
Railroad and the people who traveled it to find new lives in Canada....
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Description:
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full
citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been
necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is
the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away.
Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account
of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a
white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the
black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome
killing spree. ...
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