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Driving the Green Book — Hall '74
$18.99
By Alvin Hall, Class of 1974 Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentiall...
Africans in New Sweden — Muhammad '73
$19.95
By Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973 Historian Abdullah R. Muhammad examines a previously little-known and virtually untold aspect of Delaware’s history—the hidden role of Africans in the often brutal mercantile expansionism by European colonizers in the 17thcentury. Mr. Muhammad reveals for the first time details of the genesis of America’s...
Indigenous Peoples of East Africa — Jenson-Elliott '84
$27.45
By Cynthia Jenson-Elliott, Class of 1984 Indigenous Peoples of Africa examines the contemporary life of Africa's diverse populations as well as their widely varying social, cultural, and political histories. Family and community life, religious beliefs and practices, and the challenges of life in a fast-changing world are among the topics covere...
African American Settlements in West Africa: John Brown Russwurm & the American Civilizing Efforts
African American Settlements in West Africa: John Brown Russwurm & the American Civilizing Efforts
$55.00
By Amos Beyan, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Western Michigan University John Brown Russwurm [Bowdoin Class of 1826] and African American Settlement in West Africa examines Russwurm's intellectual accomplishments and significant contributions to the black civil rights movement in America from 1826 - 1829, and more signif...