Discusses the history of slavery in America, from its African roots and origins to the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War.
African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom uses a unique biographical approach to present the history of African Americans as active and thoughtful agents in the construction of their lives...
The text places African American lives and stories at the center of the narrative and as the basis of historical analysis. Each chapter opens with a vignette focusing on an individual involved in a dramatic moment or event.
Hans Küng is undoubtedly one of the most important theologians of our time, but he has always been a controversial figure, and as the result of a much-publicized clash over papal infallibility had his permission to teach revoked by the ...
The 3rd Edition offers fully updated content on the legacy of Barack Obama's presidency, the state of the contemporary struggle for African American freedom, and the meaning of the 2016 presidential election.
In addition, the parents of Puerto Rican children also took advantage of night classes in English offered at Lindsey Hopkins Vocational School, which had an enrollment of over 200 Spanish-speaking adults in these classes in 1956.19 The ...
He didn't know the country, he didn't know how far it was from Fouta Djallon, or how to get back to his homeland. He could tell that this place was ruled by ... Foster still owed money to the man from whom he had purchased Ibrahima.
Civil Rights Chronicle: The African-American Struggle for Freedom
Presents Black history in America as a force of strong resistance to racism and slavery rather than accommodation and discusses the people and events of this struggle
In An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee, eminent and rising scholars present a multidisciplinary examination of African American activism in Memphis from the dawn of emancipation to the twenty-first century.