The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew JohnsonRobert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincolns assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal person to lead the country. He had already cast

This book lends itself to courses on African politics or more general education courses on African development issues

Black Wall Street speaks to the triumph of the human spirit

She draws from seven decades of activist experience

which grouped the subjects together instead of leaving them scattered

While this book complements previous studies of satire among the Yoruba as an aspect of ritualized performance traditions

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amistad

at least 80% of the Nigerian population works in the informal economy and lives below the poverty line

From slave masters' economic stake in bonded women's fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s

heart-wrenching and true-to-life novel about an LA gang member that masterfully captures the violence and depravity of gang life

the fathers in this book each had his own unique and successful style of parenting

also called the Aba Women’s Riots by colonial officials

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