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Civil rights lawyer Solomon S. Seay, Jr. chronicles both heartening
and heartbreaking episodes of his first-hand struggle to achieve
the actualization of civil rights. Tempered with wit and told with
endearing humility, Seay’s memoir Jim Crow and Me: Stories from
My Life as a Civil Rights Lawyer gives one pause for both cultural
and personal reflection. With an eloquence befitting one of
Alabama’s most celebrated attorneys, Seay manages to not only
relay his personal struggles with much fervor and introspection,
but to acknowledge, in each brief piece, the greater societal
struggle in which his story is necessarily framed. Jim Crow and Me
is more than just a memoir of one man’s battle against
injustice—it is an accessible testament to the precarious battle
against civil injustice that continues even today.
Mary Parrish was reading in her home when the Tulsa race massacre
began on the evening of May 31, 1921. Parrish's daughter, Florence
Mary, called the young journalist and teacher to the window.
"Mother," she said, "I see men with guns." The two eventually fled
into the night under a hail of bullets and unwittingly became
eyewitnesses to one of the greatest race tragedies in American
history. Spurred by word that a young Black man was about to be
lynched for stepping on a white woman's foot, a three-day riot
erupted that saw the death of hundreds of Black Oklahomans and the
destruction of the Greenwood district, a prosperous, primarily
Black area known nationally as Black Wall Street. The murdered were
buried in mass graves, thousands were left homeless, and millions
of dollars worth of Black-owned property was burned to the ground.
The incident, which was hidden from history for decades, is now
recognized as one of the worst episodes of racial violence in the
United States. The Nation Must Awake, published for a wide audience
for the first time, is Parrish's first-person account, along with
the recollections of dozens of others, compiled immediately
following the tragedy under the name Events of the Tulsa Race
Disaster. With meticulous attention to detail that transports
readers to those fateful days, Parrish documents the magnitude of
the loss of human life and property at the hands of white
vigilantes. The testimonies shine light on Black residents' bravery
and the horror of seeing their neighbors gunned down and their
community lost to flames. Parrish hoped that her book would "open
the eyes of the thinking people to the impending danger of letting
such conditions exist and in the 'Land of the Free and the Home of
the Brave.' " Although the story is a hundred years old, elements
of its racial injustices are still being replayed in the streets of
America today. Includes an afterword by Anneliese M. Bruner,
Parrish's great-granddaughter, and an introduction by the late
historian John Hope Franklin and Scott Ellsworth, author of The
Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice.
From Slavery to Freedom remains the most revered, respected, and
honored text on the market. The preeminent history of African
Americans, this best-selling text charts the journey of African
Americans from their origins in Africa, through slavery in the
Western Hemisphere, struggles for freedom in the West Indies, Latin
America, and the United States, various migrations, and the
continuing quest for racial equality. Building on John Hope
Franklin's classic work, the ninth edition has been thoroughly
rewritten by the award-winning scholar Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
It includes new chapters and updated information based on the most
current scholarship. With a new narrative that brings intellectual
depth and fresh insight to a rich array of topics, the text
features greater coverage of ancestral Africa, African American
women, differing expressions of protest, local community activism,
black internationalism, civil rights and black power, as well as
the election of our first African American president in 2008. The
text also has a fresh new 4-color design with new charts, maps,
photographs, paintings, and illustrations. Instructors and students
can now access their course content through the Connect digital
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This little volume was first published in the series of Cambridge
Manuals of Science and Literature in 1913. This 1953 reissue was
lightly revised and put in a new format by Anthony Wagner, Richmond
Herald. One new block and a glossary of terms were added, and the
last chapter of suggested further reading was rewritten. The
scantness of the revision required is testament to its quality as
an introduction to a subject others had made obscure. It begins
with the definition and origin of heraldry, then explains the terms
and devices - the grammar of heraldry - and shows how individuals
and families marshalled and differenced their arms. There are two
chapters on lozenges, roundels and banners of arms, and crests,
badges, punning arms and supporters. There follows a chronological
account of the growth and decay of heraldry in England. In a
concluding chapter the whole question of nomenclature is treated
with good sense.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the most significant figures
of the French enlightenment. His political writings cover the
period from the first volume of the Encyclopedie (1751), of which
he was principal editor, to the third edition of Raynal's Histoire
des Deux Indes (1780), one of the most widely read books of the
pre-revolutionary period. This volume contains the most important
of Diderot's articles for the Encyclopedie, a substantial number of
his contributions to the Histoire, the complete texts of his
Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville, one of his most visionary
works, and his Observations sur le Nakaz, a precise and detailed
political work translated here into English for the first time. The
editors' introduction sets these works in their context and shows
the underlying coherence of Diderot's thought. A chronology of
events and a bibliography are included as further aids to the
reader.
This volume presents a selection of the political writings of one of the most significant figures of the French enlightenment. It contains the most important articles that Diderot contributed to the Encyclopédie, of which he was principal editor, the complete texts of his Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville and Observations sur le Nakaz (translated into English here for the first time), and a substantial number of his contributions to Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes. The editors' introduction puts these works in context, showing their essential features and underlying coherence.
John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study
of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press,
"The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860" was his first book on
the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum
South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North
Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states,
discriminatory laws became so harsh that many voluntarily returned
to slavery.
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