 All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education by Charles J. Ogletree (Books) (Hardcover) |  With All Deliberate Speed: The Life of Philip Elman; An Oral History Memoir by Norman I. Silber (Books) (Hardcover) With the Court -- and the country -- bitterly split over school desegregation and the validity of "separate but equal," Elman's intimate knowledge of the Court enabled him to develop the concept that became known as "with all deliberate speed" -- a phrase which unified the divided Court, but which continues to generate heated public debate to this day. | | Pictures Worth Thousands of Words | | Hidden Witness : African American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War by Jackie Napolean Wilson | | The Civil Rights Movement : A Photographic History, 1954-68 by Steven Kasher, Myrlie Evers-Williams | | The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present by Kathleen Thompson (Editor), et al | | Dreads by Francesco Mastalia, et al | New releases | Balancing the Scales of Justice | In The Debt, Randall Robinson argues that African Americans deserve reparations for the present-day racism that stems from 246 years of slavery. In an interview with Amazon.com's Eugene Holley Jr., he talks about precedents for such a controversial move and why it would help ease racial tensions in the U.S. | The Other Side of the Story |  The Wind Done Gone: A Novel ~ Hardcover - (June 2001) by Alice Randall ~ Other Editions: Paperback | Audio Cassette (Abridged) | Audio CD (Abridged) Randall's brilliant first novel tells some of what Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind left untold about the racial underbelly of southern gentility. Cynara is Scarlett O'Hara's half-sister, the child of Captain O'Hara and Mammy, before she made herself sexually unavailable under her enormous weight.
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|  African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame ~ Anne C. Bailey (Author) (Paperback - Feb 1, 2006) Other Edition(s): Hardcover ~ Focusing on the stories passed down from generation to generation among the Anlo Ewe community in southern Ghana—an area once known as the Slave Coast—Spelman College historian Bailey offers a noteworthy, carefully researched contribution to the study of the African slave trade. Few accounts in the copious literature have adequately addressed the African viewpoint, says Bailey, and the oral histories she offers are designed to correct that silence. Examples include "the incident at Atorkor": sometime in the 1850s, a breakdown in the working (though unequal) relationship between white slave traders and a coastal African chief—the chief's kin were taken along with inland, "approved" captives—heralded a new phase in the slave trade, one in which African slave traders became nearly as vulnerable as their African captives. In compact chapters, Bailey considers the political and economic impact of the slave trade on the West African region; West and Central Africa's class-based practices of domestic slavery; and the issue of European, American and African agency in the slave trade. Though dense prose makes this a better choice for the scholar than the lay reader, Bailey brings unheard historical voices to the fore. |  Brave Black Women : From Slavery to the Space Shuttle ~ Ruthe Winegarten (Author), Sharon Kahn (Author) (Paperback - 1997) Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback |  Brothers In Arms : The Epic Story of the 761St Tank Battalion, WWII 's Forgotten Heroes by ANTHONY WALTON (Books) (Author), KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR (Books) (Author) (Hardcover) Other Editions: Hardcover | Audio Cassette (Abridged) | Audio CD (Abridged) | Hardcover (Large Print) I believe it is time for America to meet the men of the 761st, common men who grew to become heroes, black men who fought for a country that often hated them, stalwart men who overcame social injustice to become men of colorblind valor. This first-of-its-kind book will…help them take their place as member of the greatest generation. —Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | | Other Areas: Software | | Microsoft Encarta Africana Third Edition by Microsoft for Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, Me Companion to Africana: The Encyclopedia |
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