Trefferliste "African American History" - alle Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr

Larry Roeder, Barry Harrelson

Dirt Don't Burn

"Dirt Don't Burn, the result of novel research by the Edwin Washington Project, is the story of how the Black community in Loudoun County, VA fought for public education from the end of the Civil War…

Bennett Parten

Somewhere Toward Freedom

An "account of Sherman's March to the Sea--the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy--told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who…

Lori D Ginzberg

Tangled Journeys

"In 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a fifteen-year-old enslaved girl, Sarah Martha Sanders. Before her death in 1850, she bore…

American Horror Story Staffel 5: Hotel

Willkommen im Hotel "Cortez"! Hinter jeder Tür der labyrinthischen Räumlichkeiten lauert ein Alptraum-Szenario. Verantwortlich dafür zeigt sich vor allem die Besitzerin "The Countess", um ihre ungewöhnlic…

Sheree Scarborough

Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston

Nannie Berger Hairston was born in West Virginia in 1921, half a century after the end of the Civil War. She attended segregated schools, graduated, married and started a family. When Nannie's husband, Jo…

Andrew Lawler

A Perfect Frenzy

"From the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that will forever change one's understanding of the American Revolution. As the American…

Black Urban History at the Crossroads

Navigates the Complicated History of the City as Both Site of Oppression and Space for Self-Determination

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine

The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience

"An illustrated edition of The 1619 Project, with newly commissioned artwork and archival images, The New York Times Magazine's award-winning reframing of the American founding and its contemporary e…

Eva Payne

Empire of Purity

"Between the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the United States government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these …

Martha H Patterson, Henry Louis Gates

The New Negro

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racismThis book brings together a wealth of…

Zara Anishanslin

The Painter's Fire

The Painter's Fire follows a remarkable cohort of transatlantic artists who risked their lives and reputations to promote the patriot cause during the Revolutionary War. Their experiences, Zara Anishansli…

June Sarpong

Calling Una Marson

The groundbreaking story of the BBC's first Black woman broadcaster - finally brought to light.

Larry Tye

The Jazzmen

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz---Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie---who, born w…

Nat'l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture,

In Slavery's Wake

"The companion book to a groundbreaking exhibition on African American history and culture-with 150 powerful illustrations of people and objects"--

History Of American Fol

Franklin R Jones Jr

Learn Black American Sign Language

Learn Black American Sign Language shares details of its history and teaches everyday words alongside proper positions and motions of the language with photos and descriptions.

Grace Elizabeth Hale

In the Pines

Winner of the Mississippi Historical Society Book of the Year Award In this "courageous and compelling ... essential and critically important" book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of…

Margena A Christian

It's No Wonder

The biography of Sylvia Moy, Motown's first certified female in-house producer and songwriter, and one of the authors behind classic hits like "My Cherie Amour," "Uptight (Everything's Alri…

Black Atlantic Worlds

Landscapes are key to the history of the transformation of Atlantic nations, regions, and ecosystem by Africans and their descendants. Black Atlantic Worlds collects essays that focus on archival silences…