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Throughout the twentieth century, beauty shops have been places where women could enjoy the company of other women, exchange information, and share secrets. The female equivalent of barbershops, they have been institutions vital to communit… more

Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls “the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming.” The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where th… more

African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature—and to change the terms with which we discuss it.Rather than contest other definitions, Warren mak… more

My book tells the story of what it was like living in the segregated south; New Orleans in particular. It relates how I and a few friends suffered under the yoke of segregation, Jim Crow laws and what we accomplished to secure change in our… more

A Mayor’s Proclamation is a book about the covert policies of an African American Mayor which are designed to systematically displace the African American population in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. Furthermore, it addresses the mu… more

Historian E. Merton Coulter famously said that Kentucky “waited until after the war was over to secede from the Union.” In this fresh study, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925… more

The Civil Rights Movement succeeded in large measure because of rhetorical appeals grounded in the Judeo-Christian religion. While movement leaders often used America’s founding documents and ideals to depict Jim Crow’s contradictory ways, … more

Despite America’s commitment to civil rights from the earliest days of nationhood, examples of injustices against minorities stain many pages of U.S. history. The battle for racial, ethnic, and gender fairness remains unfinished. This compr… more

Jim Crow Laws presents the history of the discriminatory laws that segregated people by race in the American South from the end of the Civil War through passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act. To paint a true picture of these deplorable restr… more

The term Jim Crow refers to a large body of law and social custom which served to establish and maintain segregation of the races in the South following the end of Reconstruction and moving into the mid-twentieth century. In his book, The … more

“I never meant to involve myself with hoodoo. It just kinda happened. But for the record, let me strongly state that my family was and is totally against that kind of stuff.” It’s 1966 and 10 year old Chicago native Hannah Jordan spends eve… more

Over the past century, high school and college athletics have grown into one of America’s most beloved—and most controversial—institutions, inspiring great loyalty while sparking fierce disputes. In this richly detailed book, Pamela Grun… more

Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Ri… more

Historic tragedy of the race riot of 1900 New Orleans during the infancy of Jim Crow segregation, a time where all of America’s racial, social, and political ills began and suffers to this very day. This book is a must-read!

Black Jack Herman Eva turns 109 as seen on the Today Show 4/9/08. Quote of the day: “When you’ve been buried alive, you’re not looking forward to the real thing!” The premiere African-American magician of the twentieth century, … more

For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial “etiquette,” these rules governed nearly every… more

This updated editon of Ten Generations of Bondage includes 66 more pages than the 2008 version and includes never before released information.Ten Generations of Bondage is the true story about an African American family from enslavement to … more

The Mee St. Chronicles: Straight Up Stories of a Black Woman’s Life is the extraordinarily candid memoir of Frankie Lennon’s battle to claim her own life and sexual identity. Beginning with vivid stories of growing up in segregated Knoxvill… more

“Black Jack HermanEva turns 109 as seen on the Today Show 4/9/08.Quote of the day: “When you’ve been buried alive, you’re not looking forward to the real thing!”The premiere African-American magician of the twentieth century, he was an arde… more

The Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to two of the seminal books on Southern history: Wilbur J. Cash’s The Mind of Jim Crow. Repre… more