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Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The activist and comedian examines key events in black history, from the beginnings of the slave trade in Africa and the Middle Passage to the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest black mass movement in world history. Also features interviews with people who witnessed the Garvey movement first hand.
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
"Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group. But the movement was also a religious one. Edward E. Curtis IV offers the first comprehensive examination of the rituals, ethics, theologies, and religious narratives of the Nation of Islam, showing how the movement combined elements of Afro-Eurasian Islamic traditions with African American traditions...
11) Black Power 50
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiii, 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion that opened the eyes of millions of people across the globe. In the United States, the movement spread like wildfire: high school and college youth organized black student unions; educators created black studies programs; Black Power conventions gathered thousands of people from all walks of life; and books, journals, bookstores, and publishing companies spread Black...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On March 31, 1968, over 500 black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that black Americans' best remaining hope for liberation was the creation of a sovereign nation-state, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). New Afrikan citizens traced boundaries that encompassed a large portion of the South--including South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana--as...
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