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Author: Burke Davis
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780152085612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence are profiled in this fascinating history which features prints and portraits from the period.
Author: Gerald Horne
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2013-09-30
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0252095189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA leading African American Communist, lawyer William L. Patterson (1891–1980) was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the defeat of Jim Crowby virtue of his leadership of the Scottsboro campaign in the 1930s. In this watershed biography, historian Gerald Horne shows how Patterson helped to advance African American equality by fostering and leveraging international support for the movement. Horne highlights key moments in Patterson's global activism: his early education in the Soviet Union, his involvement with the Scottsboro trials and other high-profile civil rights cases of the 1930s to 1950s, his 1951 "We Charge Genocide" petition to the United Nations, and his later work with prisons and the Black Panther Party. Through Patterson's story, Horne examines how the Cold War affected the freedom movement, with civil rights leadership sometimes disavowing African American leftists in exchange for concessions from the U.S. government. He also probes the complex and often contradictory relationship between the Communist Party and the African American community, including the impact of the FBI's infiltration of the Communist Party. Drawing from government and FBI documents, newspapers, periodicals, archival and manuscript collections, and personal papers, Horne documents Patterson's effectiveness at carrying the freedom struggle into the global arena and provides a fresh perspective on twentieth-century struggles for racial justice.
Author: Jama Lazerow
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006-10-31
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780822338901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterdisciplinary essays reevaluate the Black Panthers and their legacy in relation to revolutionary violence, radical ideology, urban politics, popular culture, and the media.
Author: Martha Biondi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2014-03-21
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0520282183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History from the American Historical Association and the Benjamin Hooks National Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work on the American Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy.
Author: Alan Gilbert
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-04-20
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0226293076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this thought-provoking history, Gilbert illuminates how the fight for abolition and equality - not just for the independence of the few but for the freedom and self-government of the many - has been central to the American story from its inception."--Pub. desc.
Author: Nancy I. Sanders
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1556528116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrates the lives and contributions of African-American leaders who played significant roles in colonial and Revolutionary War-era America, and includes over twenty related activities.
Author: Cedric J. Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1135224684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCedric Robinson traces the emergence of Black political cultures in the United States from slave resistances in the 16th and 17th centuries to the civil rights movements of the present. Drawing on the historical record, he argues that Blacks have constructed both a culture of resistance and a culture of accommodation based on the radically different experiences of slaves and free Blacks.
Author: Jeffrey J. Crow
Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscussion of slave rebelliousness, African American religion, toryism among blacks, and blacks who fought for the patriots. Includes an appendix of North Carolina blacks who served in the Continental Line or militia.
Author: Emory Douglas
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0847841898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reformatted and reduced price edition—including a revised and updated introduction by Sam Durant and new text on the artist today by Colette Gaiter--of the first book to show the provocative posters and groundbreaking graphics of the Black Panther Party. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized subjugation of African Americans. The Black Panther newspaper was founded to articulate the party’s message, and artist Emory Douglas became the paper’s art director and later the party’s minister of culture. Douglas’s artistic talents and experience proved a powerful combination: his striking collages of photographs and his own drawings combined to create some of the era’s most iconic images. This landmark book brings together a remarkable lineup of party insiders who detail the crafting of the party’s visual identity.
Author: Woody Holton
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1319241646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this fresh look at liberty and freedom in the Revolutionary era from the perspective of black Americans, Woody Holton recounts the experiences of slaves who seized freedom by joining the British as well as those — slave and free — who served in Patriot military forces. Holton’s introduction examines the conditions of black American life on the eve of colonial independence and the ways in which Revolutionary rhetoric about liberty provided African Americans with the language and inspiration for advancing their cause. Despite the rhetoric, however, most black Americans remained enslaved after the Revolution. The introduction outlines ways African Americans influenced the course of the Revolution and continued to be affected by its aftermath. Amplifying these themes are nearly forty documents — including personal narratives, petitions, letters, poems, advertisements, pension applications, and images — that testify to the diverse goals and actions of African Americans during the Revolutionary era. Document headnotes and annotations, a chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and index offer additional pedagogical support.
