African-American Studies
epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Jefferson Morley [Morley, Jefferson]

With the restoration of calm, the recriminations began. “What causes have produced the declension in American character and the present supremacy of Mobocracy?” asked the Richmond Whig, one of the ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 22,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Edward E. Baptist [Baptist, Edward E.]

Image 7.4. An elderly but still pugnacious Andrew Jackson as President, slaying the many-headed Hydra of the nefarious Second Bank of the United States. The head with the top hat ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Jonathan Rieder

A Child Shall Lead Them To ignite the Birmingham campaign, King would need more than his passionate preaching. He would also need to draw on the remarkable initiative of some ...
( Category: Asian September 18,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:August Wilson

FLOYD: That’s where she at. She out there in Greenwood. I was out there today. Me and Canewell went out there. They got her buried over in the poor-people part. ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles E. Cobb [Cobb, Charles E.]

A Civil War–era card depicting a rebelling slave. Open resistance to slavery was rarely, if ever, nonviolent. (Library of Congress) African American troops fighting for the Union in Dutch Gap, ...
( Category: African-American Studies August 18,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-05-19 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

PERHAPS I SAW Angela Davis at the festival. Perhaps we met. She was not ANGELA DAVIS then. Impressed by the Cubans, I too joined the conga line and danced my ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Thomas Hauser [Hauser, Thomas]

12 Manila MIKE KATZ: “Looking back, people say that Ali-Frazier II was a great fight. And it was; one of the greatest of all time. But going in, a lot ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Taylor, Alan [Taylor, Alan]

News On February 8, Cockburn received disturbing news: “an ugly account of peace being signed.” At Ghent on December 24, 1814, British diplomats had concluded a peace treaty with American ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 20,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-10 | Author:Larry Koger [Koger, Larry]

Sources: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860: Schedule II, Georgetown County, South Carolina, p. 134; Ibid., Schedule IV, pp. 13-14; Dale Evans ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 20,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-07-08 | Author:David M. Oshinsky

II Marshall was sent to Oakley Farm, a 2,700-acre tract for white state convicts in Hinds County, south of Jackson. As an educated man, he became the prison’s commissary clerk, ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-11-15 | Author:John M. Barry [Barry, John M.]

HUNDREDS OF MILES upriver levees were bursting and 200,000 people were homeless. The rivers were still swelling. In New Orleans at noon the next day, Klorer, Garsaud, and the state ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1980-01-02 | Author:Leon F. Litwack [Litwack, Leon F.]

But he quickly revised his expectations about freedom, and the example of those who had gone elsewhere influenced his thinking. “Dem what lef de old plantation seemed so all fired ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Wilbert Rideau [Rideau, Wilbert]

9 Soldiering On 1986—1990 Which is worse: death by execution or spending the rest of your life in prison? That was a question I was asked to answer on July ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh [Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi]

As the Chicago winter began to settle in, Ms. Bailey asked me to help her with a clothing drive. Tenants and squatters in her building needed winter coats, she said, ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |ara, eng | 2012-11-07 | Author:Randall Sullivan [Sullivan, Randall]

The O2 Arena concerts were “a do or die moment” for Michael Jackson, Randy Phillips observed in a May 30 interview with the Los Angeles Times: “If it doesn’t happen, ...
( Category: Rock May 26,2014 )