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Blackdom, New Mexico

Blackdom, New Mexico

The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900–1930

by Timothy E. Nelson

Foreword by Herbert G. Ruffin II

Price: $26.95

ISBN: 9781682831755

Pub Date: June 2023

A multi-faceted look at the freedman township of Blackdom, New Mexico, that repositions the community on the history of the American frontier
Emmett J. Scott

Emmett J. Scott

Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine

by Maceo C. Dailey Jr.

Edited by Will Guzmán and David H. Jackson Jr.

Foreword by David Levering Lewis

Afterword by Elaine Brown

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9781682831236

Pub Date: May 2023

The first biography of Emmett J. Scott, chief of staff, adviser, and ghostwriter to Booker T. Washington, and power player behind the Tuskegee Institute.
Black Star Rising

Black Star Rising

Garveyism in the West

by Holly M. Roose

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781682831274

Pub Date: February 2022

An innovative exploration of Black nationalist Marcus Garvey's influence upon the diverse communities of the American West.
Equal Opportunity Hero

Equal Opportunity Hero

T. J. Patterson’s Service to West Texas

by Phil Price

Foreword by T. J. Patterson

Price: $27.95

ISBN: 9780896729490

Pub Date: October 2017

On April 7, 1984, T. J. Patterson became the first African American elected to the Lubbock City Council, winning handily over his four opponents. It was a position he would go on to hold for more than twenty years, and his natural leadership would lead him to state and national recognition. Patterson grew up during a time of American social unrest, protest, and upheaval, and he recounts memorable instances of segregation and integration in West Texas. As a two-year-old, he survived polio when African Americans were excluded from "whites only" hospitals. When he attempted to enroll at Texas Tech after graduating from all-black Bishop College, he was not allowed even to enter the administration building--the president would speak with him only outside, and then only to say Patterson could not be enrolled. Two years later, his aunt would become the first African American to attend Texas Tech. Patterson spent his...
Free Radical

Free Radical

Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race

by Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson

Foreword by Quintard Taylor

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780896729834

Pub Date: January 2016

As Senator Ernest Chambers returns to the public forum with a 2012 bid for reelection to the Nebraska office he held for thirty-eight years, Omaha native Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson presents the first public biography of this influential leader. Documenting Chambers’s experience, influences, and struggles, Johnson traces the growth of the Black Power Movement in Nebraska, within the context of similar developments throughout the United States.
Playing in Shadows

Playing in Shadows

Texas and Negro League Baseball

by Rob Fink

Foreword by Cary Wintz

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780896727014

Pub Date: February 2010

While baseball may have long been considered an all-American sport in which a melting pot could celebrate ethnic heroes like Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, Connie Mack, and Stan Musial, racial segregation excluded blacks from an otherwise democratic picture. Such was certainly the case in Texas, where, in the state’s first professional matchup soon after the Civil War, the R. E. Lees faced the Stonewalls—and African Americans, not surprisingly, played no part. Drawing upon oral histories and mining such rare sources as rosters and box scores from black newspapers, Rob Fink situates Texas’s African American teams and players against the rise and decline of professional Negro Leagues. From the 1880s Galveston Flyaways through Dallas shortstop Ernie Banks’s signing with the Chicago Cubs in 1953, Playing in Shadows brings to light an important but little-studied inning in American sport.
And Grace Will Lead Me Home

And Grace Will Lead Me Home

African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas, 1865–1928

by Michelle M. Mears

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9780896726543

Pub Date: June 2009

Fleshing out the births and deaths of fifteen post-Civil War communities
A Place to Be Someone

A Place to Be Someone

Growing Up with Charles Gordone

by Shirley Gordon Jackson

Introduction by Maceo Dailey Jr.

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780896726352

Pub Date: September 2008

An intimate portrait of the multiethnic family and challenging circumstances in which Charles Gordone, first African American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was raised in Elkhart, Indiana. * * * * * * * * What happens when even the family color compass compounds the burdens of childhood? Before playwright Charles Gordone became a Texan, he became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama, for No Place to Be Somebody. Now, in her family memoir, Gordone’s younger sister Shirley covers the years prior to his geographical and psychological journey west, an Indiana childhood that deeply informed his pilgrimage. “Here is the drama that permeates not just the lives of blacks who grow up among whites but of countless blacks who find themselves living and working between worlds. Fanon refers to this as ‘certain uncertainty,’ Du Bois calls it ‘double consciousness,’ Bernard Bell refers to...
Unfinished Masterpiece

Unfinished Masterpiece

The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman

Edited by Laurie Champion and Bruce A. Glasrud

Foreword by Cary Wintz

Price: $22.95

ISBN: 9780896726291

Pub Date: May 2008

Gathers for the first time this southwestern African American writer’s works from The Crisis and other significant journals.
The African American Experience in Texas

The African American Experience in Texas

An Anthology

Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and James Smallwood

Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9780896726093

Pub Date: July 2007

The African American Experience in Texas collects for the first time the finest historical research and writing on African Americans in Texas. Covering the time period between 1820 and the late 1970s,...
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