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It’s time to meet your new superheroesDiscover the fascinating stories behind 38 iconic people of colour, all of them ground-breakers, risk-takers and game-changers. Whether they are activists, athletes, scientists or superstars, every one of them has been a trailblazer...
Editeur : Summersdale
Parution : 2022-02-10
Format(s) : ePub
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She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers.She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-08-17
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Universities and their faculty owned people-sometimes dozens of people-and profited from their labor while many slaves endured physical abuse on...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-07-18
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield was witness to much of the modern history of the Kurds. In this riveting account, Mansfield movingly tells the stories of the people who have fashioned one of the greatest economic and cultural resurrections in human...
Editeur : Worthy Books
Parution : 2014-10-14
Format(s) : ePub
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For all of the continuity of African-American history, including the long history of struggle, the years between 1945 and 1970 represented a new moment. It was a time of new possibilities and new vision, a time when black Americans were determined to be the architects...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1997-04-24
Format(s) : ePub
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The 10 volumes ofThe Young Oxford History of African Americans describe how black Americans shaped and changed the history of this nation. Starting in 1502, more than a century before the day in 1619 when 19 Africans stepped off a Dutch ship in Jamestown, Virginia, the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1997-04-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1989-11-30
Format(s) : PDF
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