age ~78
from Princeton, KY
“My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest dealing with my fellow man.” –Callie House (1899)In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House (1861-1928) who, seventy years before the ...
Author
Mary Frances Berry
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN #
0307277054
EAN Code
9780307277053
ISBN #
10
This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An essential...
Author
Mary Frances Berry
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
448
Publisher
Knopf
ISBN #
7
How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Howard Beach Incident of 1986, Yusef Hawkins, and Rodney King, federal law enforcement has pleaded lack of authority against white violence while en...
Author
Mary Frances Berry
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN #
0140232982
EAN Code
9780140232981
ISBN #
5
Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system...
Author
Masanobu Fukuoka
Binding
Paperback
Pages
200
Publisher
NYRB Classics
ISBN #
1590173139
EAN Code
9781590173138
ISBN #
2
This powerful, provocative survey is organized around the key issues of Afro-American history: Africa and slavery, family, religion, sex and racism, politics, economics, education, criminal justice, discrimination and protest movements, and black nationalism.
Author
Mary Frances Berry, John W. Blassingame
Binding
Paperback
Pages
512
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN #
0195029100
EAN Code
9780195029109
ISBN #
4
Mary Frances Berry (born February 17, 1938) is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of...
ISBN #
3