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Out of the Ashes: Burned Churches and the Community of Faith

By: N/A

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Nelsonword Publishing Group: April-1998

Seller ID: 56266

ISBN: 0785213902

Condition: Used - Very Good

Out of the Ashes is an inspiring account of churches and communities that endured the devastating arson fires of the mid-1990s. Selected writings by scholars and ministers such as the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Bishop Mckinley Young, Susan Davies, and William G. Rusch speak of hope and forgiveness amid discrimination, injustice, and loss.
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Called to Lead: Wisdom for the Next Generation of African American Leaders

By: N/A

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Moody Pr: July-1995

Seller ID: 67574

ISBN: 0802447422

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Our Voices: Issues Facing Black Women in America

By: N/A

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Lift Every Voice: September-2009

Seller ID: 68302

ISBN: 0802478476

Condition: Used - Very Good

What are the key issues facing black women in America today? Does God's Word offer guidance in how to navigate the realities and difficulties posed by those issues? After surveying black women across America to determine which topics are heaviest on their hearts, the authors of Our Voices present a very personal and practical overview. Ten women share with the reader their journeys and what they have learned from God's Word about His perspective on key issues facing them as black women. This book provides a powerful challenge to the reader to walk in obedience to God's Word, amid a c...
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Amanda Smith: The Amazing Autobiography of a Woman Born a Slave, Freed By the Grace of God to Live a Life of Holiness and Faith

By: Amanda Smith

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Schmul:

Seller ID: 178629

ISBN: 4208029842

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A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young

By: Andrew Young

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc: January-1994

Seller ID: 83801

ISBN: 0840769989

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The Sisters Have Their Say

By: Antoinette Hargrove

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Thomas Nelson: October-2005

Seller ID: 118956

ISBN: 1404185887

Condition: Used - Very Good

This text is a collection of all-purpose advice from an assortment of highly quotable contemporary women of color. These 21st century women have made great strides in their lives and careers and have contributed to society through their outstanding accomplishments. This treasury of inspirational stories and quotations tells a modern story of hope, courage, confidence, and generosity.

Some of the featured women will inlude Halle Berry, Marion Jones, Denyce Graves, and Iyanla Vanzant.
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Lewis Tappan and the evangelical war against slavery

By: Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Press of Case Western Reserve University: January-1969

Seller ID: 78267

ISBN: 0829501460

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Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979

By: Bettye Collier-Thomas

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Jossey-Bass: September-1997

Seller ID: 58672

ISBN: 0787909181

Condition: Used - Very Good

A priceless reference work in the history of Christian preaching that will revitalize the preaching of the twenty first century.
--Cheryl TownsAnd Gilkes, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur associate professor of African American studies and sociology, Colby College

This historic collection of never-before-published sermons by African American women preachers gives voice to the long-ignored founding mothers of the African American church. It provides long overdue access to the original text of the sermons coupled with expert contextual analysis by Dr. Bettye Collier-Thomas, ...
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The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Bois, W. E. B. Du,Bois, William Edward Burghardt Du

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated: May 1994

Seller ID: 348582

ISBN: 0486280411

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy advanced by Booker T. Washington, then the most influential black leader in America, would only serve to perpetua...
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Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Brown, Henry Box

Price: $2.99

Publisher: Dover Publications: July 2015

Seller ID: 348382

ISBN: 0486795756

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

After enduring more than 30 years of slavery, Henry "Box" Brown achieved freedom by having himself nailed inside a packing crate and shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia. Initially published in 1851, Brown's extraordinary memoir recounts the harsh circumstances of his bondage as well as the details of his 350-mile journey by railroad, steamboat, and horse cart inside a container three feet long and two feet wide.
Acclaimed by Dr. Cornel West as "one of the great creative acts in the struggle for black freedom," the story of Brown's daring escape continues to resonate as a reflection of the...
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Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation

By: Cain Hope Felder (Editor)

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers: July 1991

Seller ID: 60074

ISBN: 0800625013

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail (Pamphlet)

By: Charles Bahne

Price: $1.50

Publisher: Newtowne Pub: September-1993

Seller ID: 112549

ISBN: 0961570512

Condition: Used - Very Good

Biblical Counseling With African-Americans: Taking a Ride in the Ethiopian's Chariot

By: Clarence Walker

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House: November-1992

Seller ID: 12106

ISBN: 0310587115

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book is a practical and biblical guide for all who engage in counseling African-Americans. Its purpose is to set forth the issues, principles, and interventions of counseling, especially in terms of marriage counseling and family therapy. Clarence Walker provides a framework for the book in the biblical story of the apostle Philip and the Ethiopian charioteer as recounted in the book of Acts. In Walker's view this story involves the same issues that confront African-Americans today. Specifically, in Part 1 Walker sees seven challenges that Philip faces as a "Christian counselor": - Eth...
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Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored

By: Clifton L. Taulbert

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics): May-1995

Seller ID: 4669

ISBN: 0140244778

Condition: Used - Very Good

"A bittersweet story about love, community, and family--and the difference they made in the life of one young man."--The New York Times Book Review.
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A Shining Thread of Hope

By: Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson

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Publisher: Broadway: February 1998

Seller ID: 54014

ISBN: 076790110X

Condition: Used - Very Good

Encompassing both the panoramic story of Black women in America and the intimate, evocative details of the lives of individual women, Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson bring readers a new perspective on a long-neglected area of our history. This inspiring, sometimes heartbreaking narrative offers fresh scholarship and historical presentation as it goes beyond descriptions of codified oppression to present the strength, courage, and resourcefulness of African-American women as individuals and as a collective force for positive change. A Shining Thread of Hope moves Black women from the f...
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Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice

By: David M. Oshinsky

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Publisher: Free Press: April-1997

Seller ID: 40663

ISBN: 0684830957

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the civil rights era--and beyond.

Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi's infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, fro...
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Courage to Put Country Above Color: The J. A. Parker Story

By: David W. Tyson

Price: $2.50

Publisher: January-2009

Seller ID: 205655

ISBN: B002LYVEB2

Condition: Used - Very Good

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Douglass

Price: $2.99

Publisher: Dover Publications: April 1995

Seller ID: 310428

ISBN: 0486284999

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a leading spokesman for his people.
In this, the first and most frequently read of his three autobiographies, Douglass provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic ...
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The Black Family

By: Dr. Lee N. June, Mr. Matthew Parker

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Zondervan: April-1991

Seller ID: 11624

ISBN: 031045591X

Condition: Used - Very Good

The African American Christian Parent: Parenting in the Context of a Spiritual Deficit

By: Eddie B. Lane

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Inst for Black Family Renewal: August-1997

Seller ID: 113395

ISBN: 0964776731

Condition: Used - Very Good

Offers Bible-based parenting suggestions for the parents to be, as well as the parents of a teenager; it addresses the role of grandparents in the parenting process. Topics include choosng a career with your child, administering discipline, grade school problems, and choosing the forum of your child's education. It even deals with the grief associated with outliving your children. It is the How To book of parenting and growing healthy adults.
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Category: African American Studies