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....

A portrait of the influential secretary of the NAACP explores his dedication to advancing civil rights in America, tracing his ...

In the last weeks of the 1960 presidential race, Louis Martin pulled off a minor miracle. With two days to go ...

Explores how all aspects of American culture, history, and national identity have been profoundly influenced by the experience of African ...

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

In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc--refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to ...

Politically motivated attacks are the newest type of aggression to erupt in the cyberworld, making it necessary to analyze the ...

"Unearthing rare, scarce, and previously unknown original sources, Watts spells out a comprehensive, even definitive account of Father's controversial life ...

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

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

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

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

“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, ...

More than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor made presidential history. Born in the antebellum South to ...

A brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s—“Smoketown ...

The first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration, Marguerite “Missy” LeHand, FDR’s ...

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

This “extraordinary history” of the influential black newspaper is “deeply researched, elegantly written [and] a towering achievement” (Brent Staples, New ...

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

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

A biography of the civil rights campaigner, based on his own work, letters, diaries and autobiography, and including analyses of ...

Offers a look at African-Americans who achieved major firsts in such areas as journalism, entertainment, the military, history, and politics, ...

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

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

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In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress Lena Horne—delves deep into her family history, detailing the ...

An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit ...

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It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in ...

"Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically ...

The first cross-disciplinary history of women's international thought, analysing leading international thinkers of the twentieth century....

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

Demonstrates that the efforts to contest conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America that still resonate today. ...

Named a 2018 Notable Work of Nonfiction by The Washington Post NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner, The 2018 Southern Book ...

The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century ...

Identifies the major weaknesses in the current United Nations system and proposes fundamental reforms to address each. This title is ...

This edited collection explores how First Lady Michelle Obama gradually expanded and broadened her role by engaging in social, political ...

The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life She was ...

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