Category: African American

Black Americans in Defense of Our Nation

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Department of Defense : 1982

Seller ID: mcr2106

Condition: new

Reprint of a Department of Defense book in which the department honors contributions made by the many African Americans who have served in the US military. Special acknowledgement goes to Benjamin O. Davis Sr., who became the first black brigadier general; James Smith, the first black cadet to attend West Point; and many others. The book starts in the Colonial period with African Americans fighting in early wars, including the American Revolution, and goes through Vietnam. Includes biographies with photos of many African Americans who made their way through the military ranks. 176 pages. No i...
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Black Atlantic Writers of the 18th Century

By: Adam Potkay and Sandra Burr

Price: $16.00

Seller ID: mcr2098

ISBN-13: 9780312125189

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

This book brings together for the first time works by four Afro-Anglican writers who published between 1774 and 1789: Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, John Marrant, Ottobah Cugoano, and Olaudah Equiano. These men share a dramatic story of captivity and liberation, wayfaring and adventure. 268 pages.
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Opal Lee and What it Means to be Free

By: Alice Faye Duncan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 2022

Seller ID: AA2303

Binding: hard cover

Condition: new

96-year-old Opal Lee is considered the Grandmother of Juneteenth. This is a children's book about her fight to get Juneteenth named a national holiday.
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Black Texans A History of African Americans in Texas 1528-1995

By: Alwyn Barr

Price: $20.00

Publisher: : 1973

Seller ID: mctx2116

ISBN: 080612878

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

294 pages, including index, free shipping media mail. Black people have lived in Texas, though not continuously, for more than four hundred years longer than in any other section of the United States considerably longe than the dominant Anglo population of the state, as the Spanish ancestors of its Mexican Americans, and receded only b the forebears of its remaining American Indian citizens.
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Black Genealogy

By: Andre Austin

Price: $13.50

Publisher: : 2017

Seller ID: in1809

Condition: As New

64 pages. DNA, African American, memoirs, Black Genealogy
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Women's Slave Narratives

By: Annie L. Burton

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : 2006

Seller ID: aa2206

ISBN-13: 9780486445557

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

The moving testimonies of five African-American women comprise this unflinching account of slavery in the pre-Civil War American South. Covering a wide range of narrative styles, the voices provide authentic recollections of hardship, frustration, and hope — from Mary Prince's groundbreaking account of a lone woman's tribulations and courage, the spiritual awakening of "Old Elizabeth," and Mattie Jackson's record of personal achievements, to the memoirs of Kate Drumgoold and Annie L. Burton.A compelling, authentic portrayal of women held as slaves in the antebellum South, these remarkable stor...
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Horrible Massacre in Grant Parish, Louisiana

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Wentworth Press : 2016

Seller ID: la2303

ISBN: 978-1363306831

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Two Hundred men Killed: Details of the Occurrence: Meeting of Colored men in New Orleans: Address and Speeches.

26 p. &
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A Quest for Enslaved Ancestors: The Extended Family of Griffin Fountain of Virginia and North Carolina

By: Barnetta McGhee White

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: fhf2008

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

The techniques and records used to successfully conduct African American genealogy are shown using the story of Griffin and his brothers as examples. This is the story of their struggles during and after slavery, and it follows their descendants to the present day. 213 pages.
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Honor and Violence in the Old South

By: Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: mcr2094

ISBN-13: 9780195042429

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Like New

Hailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor now appears in abridged form under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. Winner of a Phi Alpha Theta Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, this is the first major reinterpretation of Southern life and custom since W.J. Cash's The Mind of the South. It explores the meaning and expression of the ancient code of honor as whites--both slaveholders and non-slaveholders--applied it to their lives. 270 pages, indexed.

Names include: Blair, Faust, Luraghi, Ruffin, Turnbull
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The History of the Negro Wichita Falls, Texas 1880-1982; a Documentary Centennial Edition

By: C. Emerson, Gwendolyn McDonald Jackson

Price: $270.00

Publisher: Humphrey Printing Company : 1988

Seller ID: txwf2300

Binding: Hard cover

The History of the Negro, Wichita Falls, Texas from 1880-1982 is a book full of illustrations, charts and photographs. Mr. Jackson was an educator/principal and Mrs. Jackson was a music educator. Both were revered in Wichita Falls as educators and philanthropists who were very much involved in the community. It is fascinating reading about the lives of negroes/African Americans during those years. Many people and churches are highlighted in this book.

456 p. &
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The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing

By: Carroll Parrott Blue

Price: $65.00

Publisher: University of Texas Press : 2003

Seller ID: aa2207

ISBN-13: 9780292709133

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Like new

Individual lives, viewed through the right lens, can reveal the essence of a time and place with startling clarity. In this innovative memoir, filmmaker Carroll Parrott Blue turns her lens on her mother's and her own lives as African American women in the segregated South before and during the Civil Rights era. This mother-daughter story foregrounds two strong women who fought institutionalized racism?one through community activism, the other through artistic creativity?even as the effects of racism and their differing responses to it frayed the very fabric of their relationship.293 p. &...
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Black Genealogy

By: Charles L. Blockson, Ron Fry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Black Classic Press : 1991

Seller ID: aa2216

ISBN-13: 9780933121539

Binding: Soft cover

First published in 1977, Black Genealogy remains a unique guide guide among standard genealogical references. Author Charles Blockson, a noted genealogist and african american historian, traced his own family roots back through the 18th century. Along his journey, he discovered obstacles and advantages that make searching for black family history a rewarding experience.

Index. 232 p. &
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A Mysterious Life & Calling

By: Charlotte Riley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: : 2016

Seller ID: AA1200

Binding: soft cover

Condition: used library

Preacher, teacher, and postmistress, Charlotte Levy Riley was born into slavery but became a popular evangelist after emancipation. Although several nineteenth-century accounts by black preaching women in the northern states are known, this is the first discovery of such a memoir in the South.Born in 1839 in Charleston, South Carolina, Riley was taught to read, write, and sew despite laws forbidding black literacy. Raised a Presbyterian, she writes of her conversion at age fourteen to the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, embracing its ecstatic worship and led by her own spiritual visi...
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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

By: Daniel Brook

Price: $30.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : 2019

Seller ID: aa2221

ISBN: 978-0393247442

Binding: Hard cover

In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mixed-race urbanites enjoyed some rights of citizenship and the privileges of wealth and social status. But after Emancipation, as former slaves move to assert their rights, the black-white binary that rules the rest of the nation begins to intrude.

Index. 344 p. &
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Blacks in Pennsylvania History: Research and Educational Perspectives

By: David McBride

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission : 1983

Seller ID: aa2219

ISBN-13: 9780892710270

Binding: Soft cover

Results of a conference held by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

129 p. &
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African American Research

By: Diane Richard

Price: $11.50

Seller ID: fc2010

Binding: stapled

Condition: new

This 66-page magazine is filled with information on how to find your African American ancestors. Topics include Freedman's Bank Records, Digital Library on American Slavery, Free People of Color, Education, Photographic Collections, Mapping, Fraternal Organizations, Newspaper Research, Church Records, Manuscripts & Slave Narratives.
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Generations: WPA Ex-Slave Narrative Genealogical Resource Database V. 1 Ex-Slaves with Virginia Origins

By: Dr. james M Rose

Price: $40.00

Publisher: : 2013

Seller ID: gp8531

Binding: DVD

Condition: new

If you are researching former slaves, you will likely find this DVD invaluable. The author starts with the WPA 1937-1938 interviews with former African American slaves. While focusing on former slaves who started out in Virginia, many didn't stay there. They were either sold to other plantations before the Civil War or moved to other states after the war, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, or Texas. The author added information about the person interviewed, including census extracts, death and probate records, phot...
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Indian Wars in North Carolina 1673-1763

By: E. Lawrence Lee

Price: $15.00

Publisher: : 1997

Seller ID: mcna2014

ISBN-13: 9780865260849

Condition: New

91 pages, Many years ago North Carolina was a battlefield on which its natives people fought to survive. The greater portion of this struggle took place in the century between 1663 and 1763.
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From Valley Forge to Freedom: A Story of a Black Patriot

By: E. Merrill Beach

Price: $38.50

Seller ID: mcr1774

ISBN-13: 9780871060563

Binding: perfect

Condition: fair

Book Condition: The cover of this book has shelf wear, plus a tear at the top. While the book is tightly bound and pages have no tears or marks, the lower portion of the pages are slightly wavy. Be sure to look at photos.This biography of a slave, Revolutionary War soldier and freeman is an interesting story of how Nero Hawley changed the course of his life. When he joined the army to fight in the Revolution, the war had been going for two years. He lived in Connecticut at the time, but soon after enlisting ended up at Valley Forge. After the war ended, he returned to Connecticut, where he be...
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Quick Sheet: Citing Online African-American Historical Resources

By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

Price: $12.00

Seller ID: gp3863

ISBN-13: 9780806318714

Binding: 4-page laminated

Condition: new

This Quick Sheet is a convenient guide on how to correctly cite African American historical resources, whether you are using the information for personal use or in an article or book you have written. This guide focuses on online sources, of which many are prevalent today. 4-page laminated guide.
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Biographical Directory of Negro Ministers

By: Ethel L. Williams

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, MASS, G.K. Hall & Co. : 1975

Seller ID: mcr1820

ISBN-13: 9780816111831

Binding: Hard cover black

Condition: as new

The role of Negro ministers in the revolution now gripping the nation is a crucial one. They are demonstrating religion in action in the true Christian sense. Biographical data concerning the ministers. Included are familiar names but also can be found many ministers whose names and roles will be unknown. All, however, are active and influential in local or national affairs. 589 pages. indexed @
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Juneteenth Texas Essays in African-American Folflore

By: Francis Edward Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen, Allen Govenar

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Denton, Texas, University of North Texas Press : 1996

Seller ID: mctx2030

ISBN-13: 9781574410181

Binding: Hard Back

Condition: New

Reflects many dimensions of African-American folklore. The personal essays are reminiscences about the past and are written from both black and white perspectives. Studies of specific genres of folklore, such as songs and stories; studies of specific performers, such as Lightnin Hopkins and Manse Lipscomb and other important folklorists. @
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Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917

By: Garnal Christian

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press : 1995

Seller ID: aa2211

ISBN: 978-0890966372

Binding: Hard cover

In Jim Crow Texas, black Regular Army units returning victoriously from Cuba and the Philippines collided head-on with local segregation and bigotry. As the soldiers' expectations of dignity and respect met with racial restrictions and indignities from civilian communities, a series of violent episodes erupted.Clearly written and impressively researched, Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas traces the relationship of the four black military regiments—the 24th and 25th Infantries and the 9th and 10th Cavalries—with white civilian communities in the period between the Spanish-American War and World ...
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Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings"

By: George C. Wright

Price: $65.00

Seller ID: mcky1800

ISBN-13: 9780807115367

Binding: Library

Condition: Very Good

In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "place" after the war. In the first study of its kind to target the racial patterns of a specific state, Wright demonstrates that despite Kentucky's proximity to the North, its black population was subjected to racial oppression every bit as severe and prolonged as that found farther south. His examination of the causes and extent of racial violence, and of ...
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Searching for Your Ancestors

By: Gilbert H. Doane

Price: $10.00

Publisher: : 1937

Seller ID: mcr2108

ISBN-13: 9780816602131

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Moderately Used, some markings

212 pages, including index, free shipping media mail. This book is intended be an introduction to the method of searching for elusive and forgotten ancestors. It ha been written primarily for the individual who has always thought that he would look up the family tree, but has never got around to it.
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Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District

By: Hannibal B. Johnson

Price: $18.00

Seller ID: mcbh1901

ISBN-13: 9781934645383

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as "The Black Wall Street of America," the Greenwood District attracted pioneers from all over America who sought new opportunities and fresh challenges. Legal segregation forced blacks to do business among themselves. The Greenwood district prospered as dollars circulated within the black community. But fear and jealousy swelled in the greater Tulsa community. The alleged assault of a white woman by a black man triggered unpreceden...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Jacobs

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Oxford : 1988

Seller ID: fhj2004

Binding: softcover

Condition: new

One of the few memoirs written by a black woman who struggles to escape slavery then struggles to find her voice as a writer. Fascinating book.306 pages
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Colored People: A Memoir

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Knopf : 1994

Seller ID: aa2214

ISBN: 978-0679421795

Binding: Hard cover

From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling.

216 p. &
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Colored People: A Memoir

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Vintage : 1995

Seller ID: aa2213

ISBN-13: 9780679739197

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato "processes," and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation.A winner of the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize, Colored People is a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection, a work that extends and deepens our sense of African American history even as it entrances us...
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Tapestry: Black Family CT

By: James M. Rose, et el

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New London, Ct, New London County Historical Society : 2004 reprint

Seller ID: gp9792

Binding: soft cover beige

Condition: new

This is a fascinating book about the author's family as well as 16 other black families who were brought to Connecticut as slaves for the Puritans. Athought not all the families share a common ancestor, they do share common experiences. Rose tells their stories through records, letters, and photographs. Even if your family is one of the 17 profiled, the books is still a fascinating read. Families profiled are: Adam Rogers family, Wright family, Jacklin family, Jackson family, Bonham family, Freeman family, Cato family, Gideon family, Magira family, Moody family, Peters family, Hyde family, Mas...
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Category: African American