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This & That February 2019 Explore Black History and Culture in America
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African American women in the civil rights movement by Janet Dewart BellThis groundbreaking collection based on oral histories celebrates the lesser-known leadership of African-American women in the 20th-century fight for civil rights, drawing on first-person interviews to offer deeply personal and intimate insights into what inspired and fueled the work of nine surviving Civil Rights-era activists.
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From Civil War to civil rights with one African American family by Gail Lumet BuckleyThe daughter of actress Lena Horne traces the story of her family between two major human rights periods in America, sharing the stories of her house-slave-turned-businessman ancestor, the branches of her family that lived in the North and South and their experiences during the Jim Crow and wartime eras.
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The African American experience and the shaping of America by Kinshasha ConwillMarking the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, a visual history of the African-American experience combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators and authors with objects from the museum’s collection to present a thorough exploration of African-American history and culture.
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How Virginia's enslaved cooks helped invent American cuisine by Kelley Fanto Deetz These highly skilled cooks drew upon skills and ingredients brought with them from their African homelands to create complex, labor-intensive dishes such as oyster stew, gumbo, and fried fish. However, their white owners overwhelmingly received the credit for their creations. Focusing on enslaved cooks at Virginia plantations including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and George Washington's Mount Vernon, Deetz restores these forgotten figures to their rightful place in American and Southern history. Bound to the Fire not only uncovers their rich and complex stories and illuminates their role in plantation culture, but it celebrates their living legacy with the recipes that they created and passed down to future generations
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Unpublished black history from The New York times photo archives by Darcy EveleighCollects previously unpublished photographs from the New York Times archives that depict the lives and struggles of mid-twentieth century African Americans, images that include Rosa Parks arriving at the courthouse and the fire-bombed home of Malcolm X.
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Black America since MLK : an illustrated chronology by Henry Louis GatesA companion book to the PBS series examines black history from the passage of the Civil Rights Act to the election of Barack Obama and describes the contradictions in the modern African-American community.
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The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis GatesA treasury of dozens of African-American folktales discusses their role in a broader cultural heritage, sharing such classics as the Brer Rabbit stories, the African trickster Anansi, and tales from the late nineteenth-century's "Southern Workman."
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro by Henry Louis GatesIn an homage to Joel Augustus Rogers' 1957 work, Henry Louis Gates Jr. relies on the latest scholarship to offer an overview of African, and African-American history in Q-and-A format, including such queries as: Who were Africa’s first ambassadors to Europe?; Who was the first black president in North America?; Did Lincoln really free the slaves?; and more.
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Reading between the lies by Dick GregoryThe activist and social satirist who trail-blazed a new form of racial commentary in the 1960s examines 100 key events in Black History through this collection of essays which examine Middle Passage, the creation of Jheri Curl and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of Confederacy by Ethan J Kytle & Blain RobertsStriking at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans and elsewhere, the authors reveal the deep roots of these controversies and trace them to the heart of slavery in the U.S.—Charleston, South Carolina—providing competing of histories of how slavery is remembered in this city.
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The story of In Living Color and the black comedy revolution by David PeisnerEngaging behind-the-scenes stories about the boundary-breaking sketch comedy show draw on interviews with cast members, writers, producers and network executives to celebrate its enduring influence on comedy, race relations and the careers of some of today's biggest stars.
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Black Klansman: A Memoir by Ron StallworthA decorated African-American law enforcement veteran traces his remarkable undercover infiltration of the KKK and how his white partner and he posed as one person, rose in the ranks and sabotaged Klan activities before the investigation's tragic end.
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Daniel Murray and the story of a forgotten era by Elizabeth Dowling TaylorThe story of librarian Daniel Murray, a cultural history of the African American elites who thrived in Washington D.C. during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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The civil rights movement has become national legend. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered the movement firmly in the past, whitewashed the forces that stood in its way, and diminished its scope. In A More Beautiful and Terrible History award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis dissects this national myth-making, teasing apart the accepted stories to show them in a strikingly different light. We see Rosa Parks not simply as a bus lady but a lifelong criminal justice activist and radical; Martin Luther King, Jr. as not only challenging Southern sheriffs but Northern liberals, too; and Coretta Scott King not only as a “helpmate” but a lifelong economic justice and peace activist who pushed her husband’s activism in these directions.
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A new generation speaks about race by Jesmyn WardA continuation of James Baldwin's 1963 The Fire Next Time that examines race issues from the past half century through essays, poems and memoir pieces by some of her generation's most original thinkers and writers.
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A celebration of a culture by Deborah WillisPhotographs from the birth of photography to the birth of hip-hop depict the history and evolution of Black culture in America, celebrating the worlds of family, worship, music, fashion, and sports.
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