Overview :Showcases the lifelong focus on rural Alabama by an eminent American artist. With major exhibitions running simultaneously at the Smithsonia... Read More
Overview :Black Crusader is the story of how a young man from a small North Carolina town who dreamed of becoming a poet was transformed into an arche... Read More
Overview :William Hannibal Thomas (1843-1935) served with distinction in the U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War (in which he lost an arm) and was a ... Read More
Overview :Mary Lou Williams, the "First Lady of Jazz" was an extraordinary pianist, composer arranger and master of blues boogie woogie, stride, swing... Read More
Overview :The Last "Darky" establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development o... Read More
Overview :At a time when almost all African American college students attended black colleges, philosopher William Fontaine was the only black member ... Read More
Overview :Black Radical reclaims William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934) as a seminal figure whose prophetic yet ultimately tragic--and all too often forgo... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This ... Read More
Overview :From a leading scholar of sports and race, a story of two pioneering Black quarterbacks--one who became the first to win a Super Bowl, and o... Read More
Overview :Throughout history, there have been numerous attempts to whitewash and erase contributions from Black individuals and other minorities, ofte... Read More
Overview :William Nicholson (1872 -1949) was a painter, engraver, graphic artist, stained glass craftsman, author, illustrator and theatre set designe... Read More
Overview :This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim C... Read More
Overview :Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black Ame... Read More
Overview :In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedag... Read More
Overview :Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award Historians have long considered the diary of William Johnson, a wealthy free Black barber in Na... Read More
Overview :When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face... Read More
Overview :A leading African American Communist, lawyer William L. Patterson (1891 1980) was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the defeat of Ji... Read More