Although Slavery in The United States ended with the end of The Civil War, a new type of bondage developed to reinforce the old status quo and the caste order. Consequently, freedom did not truly occur in The United States until after the work of Civil Rights Activist, DR. Martin Luther King Jr., had been fi rmly entrenched with-in the society. Reinforcing the values of The Civil Rights Movement was the election to The Presidency of Barak Obama. The irony of the Barak Obama win, however, i...

MY LIFE AS A CIVIL RIGHT'S ACTIVIST or REVOLUTION is a collection of over eighty poems which underscores the author's efforts, throughout her life, to integrate the United States by making of it a true melting pot! Believing strongly in the medicinal power of interracial relationships to achieve a truly integrated society , Ms. Brown's poetry is also a product of the Comparative Literature Courses she audited while a Graduate Student at UC Davis. Using the elements of poetry, she recreates...

WHITE CHOCOLATE is dedicated to the memory of my father, named Cordell Brown Sr., who died in 2021. He was one of my favorite people to be around as White Chocolate is one of my favorite foods to eat. The title is also symbolic of my Dad's great love for my mom whose skin color is like White Chocolate; She being a Creole whose own parents and family migrated from Haiti, Louisiana, Texas, and New York to live in the World War II Era War Industry of Northern California. I might add that my m...

IN SEARCH OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY II: A History of Women in the Republican Party is a collection of thirty-three biographies of influential women in the Republican Party from the time of Abraham Lincoln throughout the rise and fall of Donald Trump. Through an examination of the activities of these thirty-three women, readers can witness the changes over time which did occur in the Republican Party. The second installment in a three-part trilogy of minority involvement and inclusion in the ...

The inspirational saga of one man's fight for civil rights for African Americans in LouisianaWitness to the Truth tells the extraordinary life story of a grassroots human rights leader and his courageous campaign to win the right to vote for the African Americans of Lake Providence, Louisiana. Born in 1901 in a small, almost all-black parish, John H. Scott grew up in a community where black businesses, schools, and neighborhoods thrived in isolation from t...

The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership.Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America's presidents across a variety of categories -- their ability to persuade the public, their leadership skills, their moral authority, and more. The crucible of the presidency has forged some of the very best and very worst leaders in o...

The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)—the perfect companion to An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the United States.An empowering and intersectional history that centers the stories of African American women across 400+ years, showing how they are—and have alway...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Marie Claire, Electric Lit, Ms. magazine, Kirkus Reviews, BooklistIn late August 1619, a ship ar...

A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historiansC-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image, featured interviews with more than fifty preeminent historians and biographers. In this informative book, these experts paint intimate portraits of all forty-five first ladies -- their lives, ambitions, and unique partnerships with their presidential spouses. Susan Sw...

**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...

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 antebellum plantations, from the reign of lynch law in the Jim Crow South...

Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v*. the Board of Education* case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series.