epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jacqueline Jones [Jones, Jacqueline]

As whites shifted their depictions of blacks in the wake of Reconstruction, so, too, did black leaders remake their own political message. Vardaman’s virulent antiblack rhetoric played well among poor ...

epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston [Hurston, Zora Neale]

You all done been over in Pentecost (got to feeling spiritual by singing) and now we going to talk about de woman that was taken from man. I take my ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-11-15 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston [Hurston, Zora Neale]

10 One day Hezekiah asked off from work to go off with the ball team. Janie told him not to hurry back. She could close up the store herself this ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-19 | Author:Harriet Jacobs [Jacobs, Harriet]

XX New Perils THE DOCTOR, MORE EXASPERATED than ever, again tried to revenge himself on my relatives. He arrested uncle Phillip on the charge of having aided my flight. He ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston [Zora Neale Hurston]

There’s Sister Clue, too, laying over yonder Same way come back to you. Oh, mouf is de cause of it all.” They sang about all the graves of the people ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Theodore Rosengarten [Rosengarten, Theodore]

THE night my daddy died, I stayed there the balance of the night, studyin and plannin on how to take a hold, run around and see about all of his ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Jackie Robinson

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...

epub |eng | 2007-09-26 | Author:Bliss Broyard [BROYARD, BLISS]

A white reporter from the Picayune (a paper that didn’t usually favor black people) was assigned to cover the horrors of school integration. Instead he found “white ladies teaching negro ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Shalhoup, Mara [Shalhoup, Mara]

For the past eight months, a federal manhunt had been under way for a St. Louis fugitive named Deron “Wonnie” Gatling. Wonnie (or “Magic,” as he also was known) was ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Troy Jackson [Jackson, Troy]

With any growing organization emerging quickly in response to a specific challenge, infrastructure often lags. A lack of clear organization policies and guidelines did allow for MIA monies to be ...

epub |eng | | Author:Louise Meriwether [Meriwether, Louise; Baldwin, James]

NINE A MONTH after they was arrested James Junior and three other boys were let loose. It was a nice Christmas present but nobody could get too hysterical over it ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-21 | Author:Barnet Schecter

"I think things begin to look better now," Joseph Choate wrote tentatively on Wednesday morning to his mother in Salem, Massachusetts. "Powder and ball are beginning to tell . . ...

mobi, azw3 |eng | 2003-05-06 | Author:Jackie Robinson & Alfred Duckett

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2002-02-15 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

Bailey and Mother left that same day, but not before ragging me about the inane predicament I had created for myself. “It’s time for the troubleshooters to move on. You ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Manning Marable [Marable, Manning]

Despite continuing threats, the Littles struggled to build a UNIA organization. On Sunday, May 8, 1926, the local branch held a meeting that featured “Mr. E. Little” as its principal ...