History

In his book The Historical Origin Of Islam Walter Williams explains how the religion known as Islam developed historically. The information presented in this book differs from the traditional Islamic theology and literature and must be read with an open...

The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university's Administration Building was a...

From the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, African Americans in the Washington, D.C. area sought leisure destinations where they could relax without the burden of racial oppression. Local picnic parks such as Eureka and Madre's were...

In this timely addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Pamela Scully takes us from the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson through the Ebola epidemic of 2014-15. Charting her childhood and...

During the early 1800s, about two dozen men of African descent lived in Hawai i. The most noteworthy was Anthony D. Allen, a businessman who had traveled around the world before making Hawai i his home and starting a family there in 1810. The 25th Black...

Publisher Comments: In Hands on the Freedom Plow fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...

Publisher Comments: An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice People forget that Dr. King was every bit as committed to economic justice as he was to ending racial segregation. He fought...

DeRamus's first work, "Forbidden Fruit," highlighted the extraordinary acts of courage and love by blacks in the American slave era. This latest work is a collection of inspiring stories of how slaves used the law--against all odds--to gain freedom for...

Available 11/1/2009he tragic untold story of how a nation struggling for its freedom denied it to one of its own. In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than five hundred Free Negros in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of 1,000 (about...

In the dark days following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King courageously emerged from her supporting role in the civil rights movement to preserve King's legacy of nonviolent commitment to social justice.

The author of the bestselling memoir "Makes Me Wanna Holler" presents a profound debut novel that captures the dynamics of class and race in today's urban communities.

Drawing from the unparalleled collection of the United States National Slavery Museum, this stunning book chronicles the full experience of American slavery, and celebrates the contributions of slaves and their descendants. 200 illustrations.Unlike any...

Originally produced in two volumes, and published here for the first time in one paperback volume, the first part of "The Story of the Negro" covers Africa and the history of slavery in the United States while the second carries the history from the...

Robinson explores the singularly curious and inimitable tragic history of the island nation of Haiti, beginning with the present anarchic disrepair of it modern state. From one revolution to another, Haiti has changed the fate of empires yet has not been...

Booker T. Washington has long held an ambiguous position in the pantheon of black leadership. Lauded by some in his own lifetime as a black George Washington, he was also derided by others as a Benedict Arnold. In "The Education of Booker T. Washington,"...