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Ahead of Her Time
In the tumultuous years before the Civil War, a young white woman from a Quaker background came to embody commitment to the cause of antislavery and equal rights for black people. …
The Story Of Mosses, Ferns And Mushrooms
I Have Seen War: The Story of WWII
The Outer Lands
This is all part of Dorothy Sterling's fascinating description of The Outer Lands, and the plants and animals that inhabit this peninsula and chain of islands along our New England …
Freedom Train
Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible - certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape North, by the secret route called the …
Forever Free: The Story of the Emancipation Proclamation
The Making Of An Afro-American
Decades before Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Malcolm X, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) proclaimed his pride in being black, and demanded not only emancipation but …
The Outer Lands
“An extraordinary achievement in natural history and science. But it’s so artfully written you forget it’s a scientific treatise and find yourself reading it with sheer pleasure.” …
The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells
Published for the first time in its century, this meticulously edited contribution to the study of American women's diaries and late-19th-century women's and black history (Kirkus …
Black Foremothers
Presents portraits of three Black women who struggle against slavery and lynching and worked to foster civil rights and suffrage between 1826 and 1954
We Are Your Sisters
"A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free."--Dorothy B. Porter, curator emeritus, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard …
The Trouble They Seen
Most histories of Reconstruction deal primarily with political issues and the larger conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, notherners and southerners. The Trouble They Seen …