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New York: Vintage. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Paperback. 0394744071 . Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing. ; <br><br>Case study of the history of Civil Rights activism in Tuskegee, Alabama. ; 0.75 x 8.25 x 5.5 Inches; 254 pages . ... more information

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New York: Columbia University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1976. Soft Cover. Square, sound binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Wraps age-darkened, with handling wear. 315 pp. Detailed account of the United States' Southern Rhodesia policy in the years immediately following the Smith government's declaration of independence from Great Britain in 1965.; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Boston: Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc.. Good with no dust jacket. 1981. Soft Cover. 0895490285 . Exlibrary markings. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright text pages. Wraps have general light shelf wear. 84 pp. Analysis of United States naval strength, particularly with regard to transferring naval force from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean via the South African Cape. Study assesses strategic American naval weakness in the late Cold War.; Ex-Library; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Chicago: University of Chicago. Good in Good dust jacket. 1976. Coded First Edition. Hard Cover. 0226260739 . Exlibrary markings. Square with tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright text pages. Edge rubbing to cloth over boards. DJ has general light shelf wear with edge rubbing. 113 pp. Text of the 1976 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities presented by the National Ednowment for the Humanities. Author John Hope Franklin in many ways defined the study of African American history in the post-WWI... more information

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Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.: Friendship Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Soft Cover. 0377000140 . Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Wraps are shelf worn, scuffed. 160 pp. Compilation of essays by Black theologians on the interrelationship of pan-Africanism and Christian faith. Contributors include L. Maynard Catchings, Bill Sutherland, Josephat Msongore, Nicholas J. Maro, Ron Daniels, Elisha T. Mushendwa, Owusu Sadaukai (Howard Fuller), James H. Cone, Gayraud S. Wilmore... more information

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Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Soft Cover. 0878054758 . Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear. 203 pp. Literary history of Black American women novelists from the 1600s to the present, including discussion of the work of Toni Morrison, Sherley Anne Williams, Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, Jessie Fauset, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler.; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . ... more information

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New York: The Viking Press. Fair with no dust jacket. 1939. Hardcover. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding, hinges broken, hinge reinforcement tape brittle and age-darkened. Pages age-darkened. Cloth over boards is heavily shelf worn with bumped corners. Reading copy. ; <br><br>Author uses methodology of cultural anthropology to examine the condition of blacks and of race relations in the American South in the early 20th century. ; Ex-Library; 8.25" tall; 408 pages . ... more information

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Detroit: Gale Research Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1979. Hard Cover. 0810312085 . Exlibrary markings, noncirculating reference copy. Square with tight binding and hinges, age-darkened pages. Light shelfwear to cloth over boards. 493 pp. Bibliographies, general studies, library resources, periodicals, critical studies, and sections on individual authors, arranged by chronological periods. Index.; Ex-Library (Noncirculating); 8.75" (22 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1989. Soft Cover. 0252060261 . Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear and edge rubbing. Owner's name in pencil on ffep. 249 pp. Study focusing on former slaves who worked as urban wage-earners in Richmond, Virginia, in the late 19th century.; 9.25" (23 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Amherst: University of Massachusetts. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2002. Soft Cover. Square, tight binding and hinges, bright pages. Exlib stamp on table of contents; no other writing or marks. Displays no reading wear. Contents: Wiedemann, "Teacher Preparation, Social Justic, Equity: Review of the Literature"; Knight, "Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Teacher Preparation of an African American Social Justice Educator"; James Cantor, "Who's Teaching the Urb... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good with no dust jacket. 1935. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Sound binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Some foxing on endpapers, fold-out map at front of book. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with shelf wear, overall soiling. 382 pp., index. Descriptive travel account by British mining engineer.; 8.75" (21 cm) Tall . ... more information

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New York: The American Assembly, Columbia University. Good with no dust jacket. 1958. Soft Cover. Square, tight binding. Clean, age-darkened pages. Wraps have handling wear including faint creasing on front. 252 pp. Anthology of papers on various aspects of Africa and its relationship with the United States.; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Charlottesville: University of Virginia. Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Soft Cover. Square, tight copy with clean and bright pages, no writing or marks. Wraps have minor edge rubbing and shelfwear with light foxing. 289 pp. Contents: Audre Lorde, "Poems, Essays, and an Interview"; Alison Saar, "Porfolio of Art and an Essay"; Erna Brodber, "Louisiana"; John R. Keene Jr., "Noble McDaniel's Dambalah"; Clarence Major, "City Flesh and Country Manners&quo... more information

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Farmington Hills, MI, U.S.A.: Gale Group. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Hard Cover. 0810312069 . Lightly read noncirculating reference copy, square with sharp corners, tight binding and hinges, bright pages. Only a few exlib marks (ffep, title page, contents, last page of text). Light scuffing to cloth over boards most visible at bottom of spine area. 482 pp. Genre and topical studies and reference soures, including bibliographics, biographics, interviews, fiction, drama, poetry, criticism,... more information

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Lebanon, Indiana, U.S.A.: Addison-Wesley Longman. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Hard Cover. 020109312X . Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Signed by author on half title page with inscription. Paper over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has light overall shelf wear. 321 pp. Author's biography of her mother, Margaret Morgan Lawrence (1914- ), who triumphed over racial and sexual discrimination to become a noted child psychiatrist.; 9.5" (23.5 cm) Tall; S... more information

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Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1964. Hard Cover. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is clean, edge rubbed. DJ heavily edge worn with creasing, tears. Fading at spine. 213 pp. Deals primarily with the role of the Black politician in the total scheme of political affairs at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Some consideration of historical background as well as contemporary context.; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall... more information

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Charlottesville: University of Virginia. Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Soft Cover. Square, tight binding. Clean, bright pages. Owner's name on ffep. Wraps are foxed, with general light edge wear and shelf wear. 264 pp. Contents: special sections on Maryse Conde and Rita Dove, and science fiction and fantasy; Rita Dove, "The Siberian Village"; short fiction by Octavia E. Butler, Maryse Conde, Trasi Johnson, Manuel Rui, Greg Tate, Artress Bethany White; poetry by Gerald Early, Shery... more information

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Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky. Good with no dust jacket. 1983. Soft Cover. Square, tight copy with clean and bright pages. Wraps have minor edge rubbing and fading at spine, scuffing on back. 154 pp. Contents: special section on Paule Marshall, fiction writer, including articles by Paule Marshall, "From the Poets in the Kitchen"; Dorothy L. Denniston, "Early Short Fiction by Paule Marshall"; Marilyn Nelson Waniek, "Paltry Things: Immigrants and Marginal Men",... more information

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Lexington, Ky: University of Kentucky. Good with no dust jacket. 1979. Soft Cover. Square, tight copy with clean and bright pages, no writing or marks. Wraps have minor edge rubbing and shelfwear. Contents: short fiction by Leon Forrest, Kristin Hunter, Lucille Jones and James Alan McPherson; Phanuel Egejuru and Robert Elliot Fox, "An Interview with Margaret Walker"; Florence Edwards Borders, "Zora Neale Hurston: Hidden Woman"; a letter from Zora Neale Hurston to Countee Cullen;... more information

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Detroit: Gale Research Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1979. Hard Cover. 0810312077 . Lightly read noncirculating reference copy, square with sharp corners, tight binding and hinges, bright pages. Only a few exlib marks (ffep, title page, contents, last page of text). Light scuffing to cloth over boards most visible at bottom of spine area. 161 pp. Checklist of novels, short storycollections arranged by individual authors and anthologies, major authors (secondary sources), bibliographies and ge... more information

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