From the sit-ins and freedom marches of the sixties, to the election of Barack Obama--the story and lessons of a great journey of hope and transformation....
In this collection of essays, noted scholar and activist Vincent Harding reflects on the forgotten legacy of Martin Luther King, and the meaning of his life tod...
This account traces the history of black Americans from their origins in Africa to freedom at the end of the Civil War....
byMartin King,Coretta King,Vincent Harding
In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored o...
byVincent Harding,Joanne Griffith,Van Jones,Michelle Alexander
The Obama presidency represents a major milestone in black history and the struggle for political, economic and cultural equality in the United States. But how-...
byClayborne Carson,David Garrow,Gerald Gill,Vincent Harding,Darlene Hine
The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the American civil rights movement. A record of one of the greate...
byRodney Davis,Douglas Wilson,Michael Burlingame,Richard Carwardine,Edna Medford,James Oakes,Matthew Pinsker,Gerald Prokopowicz,John Sellers,Jennifer Weber,Frederick Douglass,H. Douglas,Thomas Hamilton,Robert Hamilton,Jabez Campbell,Henry Turner,Daniel Payne,Henry Garnet,Philip Bell,Edward Thomas,Alfred Smith,Frances Harper,George Vashon,Thomas Strother,Ezra Johnson,Alexander Cps,James Smith,Alexander Augusta,Jeremiah Sanderson,Osborne Anderson,Thomas Chester,James Hudson,John Proctor,Robert Purvis,Hannah Johnson,Leonard Grimes,Jeremiah Asher,John Menard, Henry African Civilization Society,William Florville,Henry Johnson,Thomas Street,John Morgan,Mattild Burr,Amos Beman,Richard Cain,Jean Roudanez,Arnold Bertonneau, George E North Carolina Freedmen,Don Rutter,George Stephens, James W.C Pennington,S. Africano",Annie Davis,S. W. Chase,Sojourner Truth,Martin Delany,George Washington,Isaac Hill,Alexander Newton,Jacob Thomas,Angeline Demby,Henry Wagoner, George W Le Vere,Elizabeth Keckley,Paul Trevigne, Thomas N.C Liverpool,H Cordelia,Emmanuel Love,William Scarborough,John Langston,Peter Clark,Ews Hammond,Charles Anderson,Booker Washington,Harriet Tubman,Julius Taylor, Ida B Wells-Barnett,Paul Dunbar,Elizabeth Thomas,Archibald Grimke,Elizabeth Keckly,William Sinclair,Jesse Barber,Mary Terrell,T. Fortune,Reverdy Ransom, W. E. Du Bois,William Trotter,Maude Griffin,Hightower Kealing,Silas Floyd,George Knox,Thomas Inborden,George Henderson,William Pickens,Kelly Miller,Etta Cottin,John Gandy,Fred Moore,Sylvanie Williams,Harry Smith,James Magee,James Curtis,John Bowen,Cora Ball,Thomas Baker,Josephine Yates,James Johnson,William Lewis,John Murphy,Robert Wright, Theophile T Allain, Oliva Ward Bush-Banks,Richard Gadsden,Edward Johnson,Alice Dunbar-Nelson,Hubert Harrison,Carter Woodson,Robert Moton,Georgia Johnson,Langston Hughes,Charles Chesnutt,Walter White,Lamar Perkins,Samuel Haynes,William Lilly,Robert Vann,William Imes,Eugene Gordon,Arthur Mitchell,Grace Evans,Aaron Payne,Claude McKay,Roscoe Simmons,Joel Rogers,Mary Bethune,John Franklin,Ella Baker,Luther Jackson,Willard Townsend,Ralph Bunche,Roy Wilkins,Mordecai Johnson,Carl Murphy,Jackie Robinson,Martin King,Thurgood Marshall,Edith Sampson,Benjamin Quarles,St. Drake,Charles Wesley,Daisy Bates,Julius X,Gwendolyn Brooks,Julius Lester,Lerone Bennett,Henry Moon,John Sengstacke,Norman Hodges,Arvarh Strickland,Mary Berry,Vincent Harding,Clarence Thomas,Barbara Fields,Henry Gates,Barack Obama
Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously resh...