DescriptionIn any great struggle, the movement should define the leader, not the leader the movement. Professor Clayborne Carson, an expert on the American Civil Rights struggle, examines the leaders that determined the nation's direction in the '50s and '60s. He compares Martin Luther King, Jr., a charismatic and adored civil rights icon, to organizers such as Ella Baker and Bob Moses who believed in letting leadership emerge from within a group. Also discussed are King's failed "saviour" theory and the subsequent emphasis on personal responsibility, a deeply-rooted notion of the black struggle even today.
DescriptionIn Inhuman Bondage, David Brion Davis sums up a lifetime of insight, beginning with the dramatic Amistad case. He looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters; the rise of the Cotton Kingdom; the daily life of ordinary slaves; the highly destructive internal long-distance slave trade; the sexual exploitation of slaves; the emergence of an African-American culture; and much more. A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism. David Brion Davis is recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western world. His books have won such awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
DescriptionCreated by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key the…
DescriptionThis unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908-1946 of Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Exposition Address", the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, the rarely heard humour of Charley Case, readings from "God's Trombones" by James Weldon Johnson, and much more.
DescriptionThis special American RadioWorks collection contains six programs: Remembering Jim Crow For much of the 20th century, African-Americans endured a legal system in the American South that was calculated to segregate and humiliate them.
DescriptionThis is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. In this woman, Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner's Dilsey in The Sound and the Fury . Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has "endured", has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
