The Black Cabinet The Untold Story Of African Americans And Politics During The Age Of Roosevelt

A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was ...

A biography in documents of one of America's most influential black women. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved....

Enhanced with illustrations, this book provides a look a the many people and diverse organizations that played a role in ...

One Blood traces both the life of the famous black surgeon and blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew and the ...

The civil rights leader’s life and work in the nation’s capital, and her influence around the world, are ...

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls “Kennedy’s ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright, whose bestselling thriller 'The End of the October' all but predicted our current ...

Traces the life and career of the successful Black oil man, discusses his role as an intermediary in Africa, and ...

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

The Republican Party once enjoyed nearly unanimous support among African American voters; today, it can hardly maintain a foothold in ...

A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the ...

The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as 1941 began. He believed the United States had ...

Presents a portrait of the first female cabinet member and one of the most influential women of the twentieth century, ...

This biography of the African-American activist and scholar, Rayford W. Logan, discusses his life and career and examines his contributions ...

John Hervey Wheeler (1908--1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of ...

Following a hard-fought war to preserve freedom and combat racial tyranny, Harry S Truman faced a nation of racial turmoil ...

The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln ...

"Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Mae West invited and promptly captured the imagination of generations. Even ...

The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the ...

In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles ...

Hattie McDaniel is best known for her performance as Mammy, the sassy foil to Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the ...

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A portrait of the late executive secretary of the NAACP documents his efforts as a civil rights champion and his ...

James Beard award–winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential ...

The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put ...

The instant #1 bestseller. “This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s ...

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To Advance Their Opportunities chronicles the development of federal policies and programs impacting African American workers, examining the fascinating and ...

On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry in an ill-fated attempt to incite ...

The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House ...

A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, north and south, in ...

From Susan H. Kamei and Barry Denenberg, the award-winning author of Ali: An American Champion, comes an engaging new novel ...

Based on oral history interviews, photographs, letters, minutes, diaries, and journals of white and African-American Mennonites, this fascinating book further ...

A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year from the ...

The relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt was among the most momentous--and mysterious--in history. The story of how these ...

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This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most charismatic and influential ...

“A rollicking history of the telephone system and the hackers who exploited its flaws.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Before smartphones, ...

“I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold ...

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