Product Description: "For almost two decades, August Meier and Elliott Rudwick have roamed the frontier of Afro-American history, blazing trails that others have followed. This book forges a solid link between race and class conflict in the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: "Along the Color Line" is a diverse collection of essays by two of the most accomplished historians of the modern African American experience, first published more than a quarter of a century ago. This informed study addresses such topics as black nationalism, nonviolent action, the changing patterns of interracial violence in the twentieth century, and the ways African American leaders have functioned and coped with racism in their quest to ensure the rights of full citizenship for African Americans...read more

Articles chronicle the evolution of the Black protest movement from its nonviolent beginning to the turbulent era of the Black Panthers

Offers profiles of seventeen nineteenth century Black men and women, including Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, and Mary Church Terrell

Recounts the accomplishments of fifteen Black American men and women, including Martin Luther King, Mary McLeod Bethune, Adam Clayton Powell, and Booker T. Washington (view table of contents)

A collection of original and previously published essays on black leaders, black nationalism, black power, and nonviolent direct action in the United States

An interpretive narrative of Black American history focuses on the development and organization of protest movements

Product Description: The activities of James Farmer, George Wiley, Floyd McKissick, Wilfred Ussery, and Roy Innis, along with an entire emotion-laden and action-packed era in the American civil rights movement, come to light in this widely acclaimed study of the rise and decline of CORE by two leading authorities in black studies...read more

Selected writings and articles survey the black American's struggle to gain dignity, equality, and identity over the last seventy years

Essays drawn primarily from sociology, political science, and history journals survey the origins, development, and determining forces and trends of American Negro life, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Product Description: An analysis of the ideas of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, and other black leaders from the turn of the century.

Traces the evolution of Negroes' views of their race and its place in society from the end of Reconstruction to the outbreak of World War I