Presents a history of the abolitionist movement in America between 1830 and 1865, and describes the efforts by many including the Quakers, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and other to organize in hopes of destroying the slave system.
Presents a concise history of slavery in the Americas with the arrival of the first Africans in the early 1600s, and describes the rise of the plantation South, the revival of slavery with the cotton gin, slave rebellions and the Underground Railroad, and the end of slavery in 1865.
Traces slavery and five slave rebellions in America including the Amistad rebellion, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser, and the Stono Rebellion.
This book traces the history of blacks in the American military including Black minutemen at Lexington and Concord, Black soldiers who fought in the Civil War, the Buffalo Soldiers, African Americans who fought in the two world wars, and African Americans in today's military.
A biography of Ray Charles, discussing his childhood, the strong influence of his mother, his years at a Florida boarding school for the deaf and blind, and the course of his career as a composer, pianist, and singer.
Traces the origins of jazz to the African-American musicians of New Orleans in the 1890s, and chronicles the history of the genre through the early twenty-first century.
This book traces the history of African American inventors, from the 1600s when most African Americans were viewed as property to the nineteenth century when African Americans overcame prejudice to the twenty-first century which has progressed to the point where only "inventors" exist.
This book discusses Supreme Court cases involving the rights of African Americans, including Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents.
