Black Studies
BIC code: JBHC
See also: Social Sciences
There were 4 books found.
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A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & The Soul Of America - Craig Werner - Paperback
'A Change is Gonna Come' tells the story of more than 40 years of black music. From Ray Charles to Ice Cube, it draws lively character sketches of all the major musicians, filling in the background historical events.
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Indaba, My Children - Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa - Paperback
This acclaimed collection of African folk tales charts the story of African tribal life since the time of the Phoenicians. These stories kept alive intertribal friendship and hatred, and told the young who their ancestors were.
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Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life Of Martin Luther King Jr - Stephen B. Oates - Paperback
April 4, 1968, and a gunshot rings out in the Memphis sky, fatally wounding Martin Luther King Jr. In let the Trumpet Sound, award-winning biographer Stephen B. Oates resurrects the heart, soul and life of the tireless civil rights campaigner.
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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights - David Margolick - Pbk. + CD
This text explores the story of a song that foretold a movement, and the lady who dared to sing it. The authors chronicle its effect on those who experienced it first hand