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This remarkable biography, based on much new information, examines the life and times of one of the most prominent African-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Born in New York in 1819, Alexander Crummell was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, after being denied admission to Yale University and the Episcopal Seminary on purely racial grounds. In 1853, steeped in the classical tradition and modern political theory, he went to the Republic of Liberia as an Episcopal missionary, but was forced to flee to Sierra Leone in 1872, having barely survived republican Africa's first coup. He accepted a pastorate in Washington, D.C., and in 1897 founded the American Negro Academy, where the influence of his ideology was felt by W.E.B. Du Bois and future progenitors of the Garvey Movement. A pivotal nineteenth-century thinker, Crummell is essential to any understanding of twentieth-century black nationalism. more...

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A collection of inspiring biographical profiles that bring notable African Americans of colonial times to life for young readers. In this lively, comprehensive collection, young readers will learn about twenty notable lives in the earliest period of American history each born in colonial days up to the Revolutionary War. Black Stars of Colonial Times tells the fascinating stories of famous and legendary people along with many unsung heroes and heroines. Each well-rounded biography covers its subject’s background, challenges, and achievements, and more. Beautifully illustrated, this book contains thoroughly researched stories of striking courage and determination. more...

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His speeches stirred a generation to change - and outlined a practical way to economic freedom and true democracy. His words would help bring about the end of a brutally unequal system - and would show a timeless method for achieving fairness and justice for all. A Call to Conscience is a milestone collection of Dr. King's most influential and best-known speeches. Compiled by Stanford historian Dr. Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project, and by contributing editor Kris Shepard, this volume takes you behind the scenes on an astonishing historical journey. more...

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On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., electrified the nation when he delivered his ''I Have a Dream'' speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In The Dream , Drew D. Hansen explores the fascinating and little-known history of King's legendary address. The Dream insightfully considers how King's speech ''has slowly remade the American imagination,'' and led us closer to King's visionary goal of a redeemed America. more...

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Dexter King, who would grow up to eerily resemble his legendary father, MLK, Jr., and display some of the same eloquence, was seven years old when an assassin's bullet took his father's life. The bond between father and son was a close one. For years afte more...

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