Search Results: CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK HISTORY from PASCALE'S BOOKS

Atheneum:, 1960. 270 pages + Appendix. "A book rich in ideas and facts suggestive to the lawyer interested in crime, and to the citizen intrigued by the emergence of Africa to a crucial role in world affairs." VERY GOOD SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bonanza Books:, 1940. 259 pages, with a Bibliography. "Music played so important a part in African life that it is natural that the Negro continued his singing after reaching America." This book has six chapters: Origins, Spiritual, Blues, Work Songs, Social and Miscellaneous, the music scores and a Bibliography. VERY GOOD+ HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD+ DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University Press of Florida:, 2003. 177 pages, illustrated. "Thirteen primary documents written by enslaved Africans and white officials, an annotated bibliography, and a timeline complete the book, making it comprehensive and accessible introduction to the subject." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Vintage Books::, 1979. 651 pages. "Based on hitherto unexamined sources- interviews with ex-slaves and diaries and accounts by former slaveholders." FINE- SOFTCOVER. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Aldine:, 1970. 446 pages. "This book is about survival. It provides a full and authoritative description of the institutions and processes that determine the content and style of black lower class life in America today." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET, with some pen underlining neatly done. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford University Press/ Institute of Race Relations:, 1958. 366 pages, illustrated. "This book (the first to be issued under the auspices of the Institute of Race Relations) deals with a major political problem-perhaps the problem- that is likely to confront the nations of the world in the coming half-century: the relationship between the highly organized peoples of the West and the rapidly developing nations of Africa and Asia. Part I is an attempt to set out what the tribes had achieved before the Europeans came. Part II tells the story of their coming; and Part III deals with the settling down of white and black together and the conventions that grew up." FINE- HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD- DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University of North Carolina Press:, 1985. 609 pages. "The Black Abolitionist Papers Project began in 1976 with the mission to collect and publish the documentary record of black Americans involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States from 1830 to 1865. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, defect noted: some cloth wear at the left top spine edge and few pages have been folded over at lower page edge. Else a nice clean tight copy,, lettering is bright on the spine. Signed by the editor on title page to associated editor.. Signed by the Editor.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Present. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garland:, 1988. 130 pages. "Prior to the 1960s the names of few black authors and illustrators of books for children were to be found in the popular biographcal sources or library reference books. The biographical sketches included in this book of authors and illustrators are presented to acquaint all children with some creaotrs of children's books." FINE HARDCOVER.. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket Present.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

A & C. Boni:, 1924. 210 pages, illustrated. "In attempting these verbal transcriptions of Negro life in southern Louisiana, it is my desire to give true portrayals of the people as they really are." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Present.. Illus. by Edward Larocque Tinker:. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Grove Press:, 2020. The first American edition, 540 pages, illustrated. "A unique and enlightening portrait, this book is a groundbreaking reappraisal of an unheralded chapter in the battle for civil rights." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution:, 1984. 141 pages. "These hitherto unpublished accounts of Black participatioin in the American Revolution, will add another chapter to our nation's glorious past. it provides important documentation for this period of the history of the United States of America." FINE- SOFTCOVER, four lines in this book are marked with pink highlighter.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Zondervan:, 1991. 239 pages. "Fifteen chapters that comprise this comprehensive look, at the Black family today, each of the contributors deal with an aspect of family life that pertains especially to the Black community." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Thunder's Mouth Press:, 1993. 208 pages, illustrated. "This book is celebration of 90 of the greatest black heroes of the 20th century, men and women who through their achievements have significantly illuminated the African American experience." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston:, 1977. 146 pages. Four chapters on The Papers of the Free African Union Society, Newport Rhode, 1780-1824, Phillis Wheatley, W.E.B. DuBois, William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite and the Literature of Black New England. FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Harpers:, 1954. 354 pages. "An American Negro Views The African Gold Coast." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD- DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Duke University Press:, 1999. 190 pages, illustrated in b&w. This book "is a feminist study of the representation of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of 19th century France." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University of Mass. Press:, 1969. 478 pages. "Since its founding in 1959, The Massachusetts Review has played a unique role in emphasizing early and often the importance of black culture in America. This volume gathers together stories, poems, portraits, and critical essays involving black and white culture which have appeared in the pages of MR during its first ten years." GOOD HARDCOVER, with some pencil underlining, GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Markus Wiener Publishing:, 1988. The seventh printing, from 1999, 154 pages, illustrated. "Born a slave, Susie King Taylor gained her freedom during the Civil War and joined a northern regiment in South Carolina to work as a laundress, teamster, teacher, and nurse." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh University Press:, 1991. This book is the second printing from 1995,239 pages. "This anthology brings together extracts from autobioghies, slave narratives, unpublished letters, oral accounts and public records from all the major Afro-British writers and many early Black American, West African and Caribeean writers who spent time in Britain." FINE SOFTCOVER. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pathfinder:, 1990. First published in 1973, this book is the ninth printing from 1990, 96 pages, illustrated. "Dr. Mullen recounts the hidden history of Blacks in America's wars, from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam, tracing their changing atitudes toward service in the military." FINE SOFTCOVER. . Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.