Download or read book Black Profiles in Courage written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ideal introduction to black history, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines the lives of heroic African Americans and offers their stories as inspiring examples for young people, who too rarely encounter positive black role models in history books or in the media. Profiled here are Peter Salem, the volunteer soldier who turned the tide at Bunker Hill; Joseph Cinque, leader of a daring revolt on the slave ship Amistad; Frederick Douglass, self-taught writer-orator and escaped slave who forced President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation years ahead of schedule; Harriet Tubman, who led at least three hundred slaves to freedom; Lewis Latimer, whose scientific work was integral to the achievements of Bell and Edison; and many more. Shining a bright light on the touchstones of character, these exemplary stories reemphasize the integral role of African Americans in weaving the fabric of our nation and form an empowering legacy from which Americans of all ages can draw inspiration, wisdom, and pride.
Download or read book Achievements Legacies of Famous African Americans written by T. L. Allen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achievements & Legacies of Famous African Americans introduce to you the identification of gifted blacks in American with priceless skills resulting in tangible results. African American history is celebrated all over the globe become a part of the legacy.
Download or read book African American Pride written by Tyehimba Jess and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -There are nearly 35 million African Americans in the U.S. today. This volume gives 101 reasons to be proud of being African American.
Download or read book Legacy Three Centuries of Black History in Charlotte North Carolina written by Pamela Grundy and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories told by many generations of Charlotte's African American residents mingle strength and hardship, accomplishment and setback, joy and pain. Through slavery, through war, through Jim Crow segregation and into the 21st century Black residents from all walks of life have played essential roles in making Charlotte the city it is today. Everyone needs to know this history.
Download or read book Black Legacy written by William Loren Katz and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes famous Black leaders and cultural movements in New York City from its days as a Dutch colony to the 1990s.
Download or read book Achievements Legacies of Famous African Americans written by T. L. Allen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-25 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achievements & Legacies of Famous African Americans Vol. 3, takes you inside the mind of celebrated authors who have made great contributions throughout history. Educate yourself and become a part of the African American experience. The Legacy Continues.
Download or read book Forgotten Legacy written by Benjamin R. Justesen and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Forgotten Legacy, Benjamin R. Justesen reveals a previously unexamined facet of William McKinley’s presidency: an ongoing dedication to the advancement of African Americans, including their appointment to significant roles in the federal government and the safeguarding of their rights as U.S. citizens. During the first two years of his administration, McKinley named nearly as many African Americans to federal office as all his predecessors combined. He also acted on many fronts to stiffen federal penalties for participation in lynch mobs and to support measures promoting racial tolerance. Indeed, Justesen’s work suggests that McKinley might well be considered the first “civil rights president,” especially when compared to his next five successors in office. Nonetheless, historians have long minimized, trivialized, or overlooked McKinley’s cooperative relationships with prominent African American leaders, including George Henry White, the nation’s only black congressman between 1897 and 1901. Justesen contends that this conventional, one-sided portrait of McKinley is at best incomplete and misleading, and often severely distorts the historical record. A Civil War veteran and the child of abolitionist parents, the twenty-fifth president committed himself to advocating for equity for America’s black citizens. Justesen uses White’s parallel efforts in and outside of Congress as the primary lens through which to view the McKinley administration’s accomplishments in racial advancement. He focuses on McKinley’s regular meetings with a small and mostly unheralded group of African American advisers and his enduring relationship with leaders of the new National Afro-American Council. His nomination of black U.S. postmasters, consuls, midlevel agency appointees, military officers, and some high-level officials—including U.S. ministers to Haiti and Liberia—serves as perhaps the most visible example of the president’s work in this area. Only months before his assassination in 1901, McKinley toured the South, visiting African American colleges to praise black achievements and encourage a spirit of optimism among his audiences. Although McKinley succumbed to political pressure and failed to promote equality and civil rights as much as he had initially hoped, Justesen shows that his efforts proved far more significant than previously thought, and were halted only by his untimely death.
Download or read book Achievement Legacies of Famous African Americans written by T. L. Allen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achievements & Legacies of Famous African Americans Volume 1 chronicles history of African Americans., and preserves the legacy of African Americans global accomplishments by showing and telling of the many doors that were opened through persistence, determination, talent, genius, fortitude and strength. “The collection of T. L. Allen's books on the achievements of Blacks in America taught me about the triumphs of so many untold heroes of Black in America. It is inspiring to know that many families will benefit from the comprehensive research that T. L. Allen performed to put together a work of this magnitude for the world to view”. Reviewed by C.J. Wilson “As a parent, I am was thrilled to add T. L. Allen's Commemorative Edition Series to my home's library, as much of the history of African Americans is not taught in the schools” The author did a great, thorough documenting a long list of remarkable achievements that will help young people develop a sound foundation and respect for the achievement of their forefathers”. Reviewed by Linda Taliaferro "These books are definitive guides of the African American experience in America across a wide spectrum of fields. The books are refreshing with stories of the academic achievement, life experiences, and the impact on the history of Blacks in America. Schools and Libraries across the country have given these books excellent reviews." Phil Andrews, President, Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc./Past President, 100 Black Men of Long Island, Inc.
Download or read book Achievements and Legacies of Famous African Americans written by T. L. Allen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achievements & Legacies of Famous African Americans takes you inside the world of blacks in cinema, introducing to you the identification of gifted African Americans with priceless skills resulting in tangible results. African American history is celebrated all across the globe, and blacks have changed the world in a big way and are being acknowledged for their global impacts. Become a Part of the Legacy.
Download or read book Achievements Legacies of Famous African Americans written by T. L. Allen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achievements & Legacies of Famous African Americans Volume 1 chronicles history of African Americans., and preserves the legacy of African Americans global accomplishments by showing and telling of the many doors that were opened through persistence, determination, talent, genius, fortitude and strength. "These books are definitive guides of the African American experience in America across a wide spectrum of fields. The books are refreshing with stories of the academic achievement, life experiences, and the impact on the history of Blacks in America. Schools and Libraries across the country have given these books excellent reviews." Phil Andrews, President, Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc./Past President, 100 Black Men of Long Island, Inc.
Download or read book Living Nations Living Words An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, “that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.” In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.
Download or read book Achievements and Legacies of Famous African Americans Vol 1 written by T. L. Allen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achievements & Legacies of Famous African Americans Volume 1 chronicles history of African Americans., and preserves the legacy of African Americans global accomplishments by showing and telling of the many doors that were opened through persistence, determination, talent, genius, fortitude and strength. "These books are definitive guides of the African American experience in America across a wide spectrum of fields. The books are refreshing with stories of the academic achievement, life experiences, and the impact on the history of Blacks in America. Schools and Libraries across the country have given these books excellent reviews." Phil Andrews, President, Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc./Past President, 100 Black Men of Long Island, Inc.
Download or read book The History of the Negro Church written by Carter Godwin Woodson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Century of Negro Migration written by Carter Godwin Woodson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative work by distinguished African-American scholar traces the migration north and westward of southern blacks, from the colonial era through the early 20th century. Documented with information from contemporary newspapers, personal letters, and academic journals, this discerning study vividly recounts decades of harassment and humiliation, hope and achievement.
Download or read book The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 written by Carter Godwin Woodson and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winston Salem s African American Legacy written by Cheryl Streeter Harry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston-Salem was created in 1913 when the City of Winston and the Town of Salem merged. Salem was established in 1766 by the Moravian Church as a devout religious community. The county seat of Winston was formed out of Salem in 1849. African Americans had no voice in the consolidation; however, these descendants of slaves built a legacy in a "separate and unequal" municipality in the 20th century. The thriving tobacco industry delivered swift progress for African Americans in the Twin City, placing them on the level of the "Black Wall Street" cities in the South. Slater Industrial Academy (now Winston-Salem State University) provided the educational foundation. WAAA radio gave the community an active voice in 1950. Winston-Salem's African American Legacy showcases the significant contributions through the lens of the city's historical cultural institutions.
Download or read book Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States 1889 1918 written by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
