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Contains articles that provide biographical information about fifty-nine men and women of African heritage who have made significant contributions to their fields; arranged alphabetically with portraits and interviews when available, and cumulative name, occupation, nationality, and subject indexes.

Contains articles that provide biographical information about seventy-one men and women of African heritage who have made significant contributions to their fields; arranged alphabetically, with portraits and interviews when available, and cumulative name, occupation, nationality, and subject indexes.

Contains articles that provide biographical information about seventy men and women of African heritage who have made significant contributions to their fields; arranged alphabetically with portraits and interviews when available, and cumulative name, occupation, nationality, and subject indexes.

Contains articles that provide biographical information about seventy-one men and women of African heritage who have made significant contributions to their fields; arranged alphabetically with portraits and interviews when available, and cumulative name, occupation, nationality, and subject indexes.

An autobiographical account of a childhood and youth spent in slavery by a man who became a great abolitionist and leader of anti-slavery activity.

A collection of writings by approximately one hundred black authors around the world, including award winners as well as emerging talents; featuring essays, hip-hop journalism, criticism, fiction, poetry, and dialogue.

A selection of articles from "Freedomways, " a journal that published the writings of African-American leaders and artists of the freedom movement, from 1961 to 1986.

A collection of quotations and proverbs representative of blacks from all over the world, past and present.

The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

The marriage of music and social change didn't originate with the movements for civil rights and Black Power in the 1950s and 1960s, but never before and never again was the relationship between the two so dynamic. In Keep On Pushing , author Denise Sullivan presents the voices of musician-activists from this pivotal era and the artists who followed in their footsteps to become the force behind contemporary liberation music. Joining authentic voices with a bittersweet narrative covering more than fifty years of fighting oppression through song, Keep On Pushing defines the soundtrack to revolution and the price the artists paid to create it. Exclusive interviews with Yoko Ono, Richie Havens, Len Chandler, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Michael Franti, Solomon Burke, Wayne Kramer, John Sinclair, Phranc, plus musician-activist Elaine Brown on the Black Panthers, Nina Simone collaborator Al Schackman, Penelope Houston and Debora Iyall on San Francisco punk rock, Ed Pearl on the L.A. folk scene and the Ash Grove, and other musical and political icons.