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  • Community Hospital of San Bernardino

    by Joyce A. Hanson, Suzie Earp, Erin Shanks ...
    Series series Images of America
    Dr. William Henry Mills, fellow in the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians in London, arrived in San Bernardino, California in February 1903. Recruited by Dr. George Rowell as a medical partner, Dr. Mills quickly realized that surgical facilities in San Bernardino were woefully inadequate. Determined to improve medical care, in 1906 Mills converted an old wooden residence ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism

    by Joyce A. Hanson ...
    Series Book 1 - MISSOURI BIOGRAPHY SERIES
    Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black women for visible and expanding public leadership roles. Few have been as effective in the development of women’s leadership for group advancement. Despite ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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    Many Rivers to Cross

    by Donald Yacovone, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six-hour documentary of the same name. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent and the arrival of the first black conquistador, Juan Garrido, in Florida in 1513, through five centuries of ... Read more

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  • Vanguard

    How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    **An essential history of African American women’s pursuit of political power—and how it transformed America“Elegant and expansive.” —New York TimesWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryNamed a Best Book of the Year by Ms. • Time • Foreign Affairs • Smithsonian**In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in Ame. ... Read more

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  • A Shining Thread of Hope

    The History of Black Women in America

    by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson ...
    At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of ... Read more

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  • When and Where I Enter

    The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

    by Paula J. Giddings ...
    A history of the African American woman's experience in America and an analysis of the relationship between sexism and racism.When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influences of African American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how ... Read more

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  • Mothers of Massive Resistance

    White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

    by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae ...
    Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white ... Read more

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  • Mirror to America

    The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

    by John Hope Franklin ...
    The legendary man recounts his journey from a childhood in Oklahoma to an Presidential Medal of Honor–winning African American historian."An astonishing beautiful, deeply intelligent record of an extraordinary life. Required reading lest we forget what is possible in a race-based society." —Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature"John Hope Franklin's story is the stuff of ... Read more

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  • Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

    Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common ... Read more

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  • A Dreadful Deceit

    The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color ... Read more

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  • There Goes My Everything

    White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975

    by Jason Sokol ...
    During the civil rights movement, epic battles for justice were fought in the streets, at lunch counters, and in the classrooms of the American South. Just as many battles were waged, however, in the hearts and minds of ordinary white southerners whose world became unrecognizable to them. Jason Sokol’s vivid and unprecedented account of white southerners’ attitudes and actions, related in their ... Read more

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  • Turn Away Thy Son

    Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation

    by Elizabeth Jacoway ...
    Series series Bestselling US History
    An eye-opening, meticulously researched work by a Little Rock native that reveals the story behind the headlines of the famous, school desegregation crisis through thirty years worth of research and interviews.In September 1957, the nation was transfixed by nine Black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ... Read more

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