History

In this valuable volume of oral history, the recorded childhood memories of African Americans--from family rituals to first jobs, neighborhood games to school--are illustrated with vintage photographs culled from family albums and archives. Chronicling...

This book captures the historical impacts of the African American community of Key West, Florida. Known best as a vacation destination and home to artists, beach bums, and celebrities, Key West also boasts a proud African-American heritage that has its...

Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together -- and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property. ...

Eritrea, as home of 9 ethno-liguistic & multi-faith groups, has the potential ingredients of identity-based conflicts. However, in spite of its potentially conflict-prone social structure, there have never been, in the country's history, any major...

Hog Hammock, located on Georgia's Sapelo Island, is only accessible by ferry or private boat. It is one of the last island-based Gullah-Geechee communities in America--a living connection to West African languages, folkways, and spiritual traditions...

Cincinnati played a large part in creatng a refuge for escaped salaves and in the Underground Railroad movement.Nearly a century after the American Revolution, the waters of the Ohio River provided a real and complex barrier for the United States to...

The discipline of black history has its roots firmly planted at 1538 Ninth Street, Northwest, in Washington, D.C. The Victorian row house in Black Broadway was once the modest office-home of Carter G. Woodson. The home was also the headquarters of the...

Iconic African Locations Colouring Book Volume 1 is a colouring book celebrating remarkable places across the African continent.The book features twenty-five carefully selected locations, including well-known landmarks, natural landscapes, and...

Iconic African Locations Colouring Book Volume 2 is a colouring book celebrating remarkable places across the African continent.The book features twenty-five carefully selected locations, including well-known landmarks, natural landscapes, and...

The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution,...

Do you need a book about Black Canadian history? My name is LTtheMonk, and I think you need to learn something new. Something you weren't taught in school, stories of unsung Black Canadian heroes, forgotten communities, and why the Klan got so big in...

Though African Americans have served as foreign reporters for almost two centuries, their work remains virtually unstudied. In this seminal volume, Jinx Coleman Broussard traces the history of black participation in international newsgathering. Beginning...