African American History | African American History
Sep.19.2012
Ben Carter and his men are sent to the West Texas town of Cactus Junction in response to a plea for help. A gang of rustlers, led by the notorious outlaw, Black Jack, is stealing their cattle, putting them at risk of losing their land. Once there, though, Ben has to deal with the town's...
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Mar.16.2012
Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America’s great cities, and one of the nation’s greatest urban failures. It tells how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse—from 1.8 million residents in 1950 to 714,000 only...
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Jun.23.2010
We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun uses the metaphor of nervous breakdown to critique the collapse of the American Civil Rights Movement from a historical perspective. Focusting on the years 1962-1968, using a topical chronological approach, this work seeks to discuss the major organizations and...
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Oct.28.2009
From Publishers WeeklyMcFadden's Sugar and other titles remain key recent novels of black women's search for, and claiming of, origins; this flawed but engrossing multigenerational saga takes its place among them. Pregnant and chronically "displaced" at 38, Sherry sets off with her mother...
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Jul.28.2009
Lincoln, Nebraska’s capital, grew from 45,000 to 55,000 residents in the years 1910–1925. The state’s second-largest city, Lincoln was also home to Nebraska’s second-largest African American community—a “small town” within the midwestern city. Local race relations were a study in contradictions....
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Apr.19.2009
An evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. A voice speaking out of a distant past describes the consequences of his desperation: his daughter and two sons condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753.
Here are the stories of these children: Nash, Martha, and...
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Mar.07.2009
The Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 21st Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 20th Century. Despite the soul-crushing challenges of war, racism...
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