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Alexandria's Freedmen's Cemetery: A Legacy of Freedom
"At the beginning of the Civil War, Federal troops secured Alexandria as Union territory. Former slaves, called contrabands, poured in to obtain protection from their former masters. Due to overcrowding, mortality rates were high. Authorities seized an undeveloped parcel of land on South Washington Street, and by March 1864, it had been opened as a cemetery for African Americans. Between 1864 and 1868, more than 1,700 contrabands and freedmen were buried there. For nearly eighty years, the cemetery lay undisturbed and was eventually forgotten. Rediscovered in 1996, it has now been preserved as a monument to the courage and sacrifice of those buried within. Author and researcher Char McCargo Bah recounts the stories of those men and women and the search for their descendants."-- back cover.
Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC
The fullest account to date of African American young people in a segregated city Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC offers a complex narrative of the everyday lives of black young people in a racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted Washington, DC, during the 1930s. In contrast to the ways in which young people have been portrayed by researchers, policy makers, law enforcement, and the media, Paula C. Austin draws on previously unstudied archival material to present black poor and working class young people as thinkers, theorists, critics, and commentators as they reckon with the boundaries imposed on them in a Jim Crow city that was also the American emblem of equality. The narratives at the center of this book provide a different understanding of black urban life in the early twentieth century, showing that ordinary people were expert at navigating around the limitations imposed by the District of Columbia’s racially segregated politics. Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC is a fresh take on the New Negro movement, and a vital contribution to the history of race in America.
Papa Tell Me a Story
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Blazing Roses
A powerful and provocative, yet wholesome story of the fight to survive and start a new life. The Rose family pushes themselves into totally new surroundings. This, at a time when even day to day life is a struggle, in ways, we today, do not fully comprehend. A catastrophic event forces the young Rose family to reevaluate what is important and what is next. Their decision; a 700 mile move from Kentucky to inhospitable Northern Wisconsin. The year 1908. No plane to catch, no pick-up truck to haul their rental trailer. Rather, an old, wood-fired locomotive. Always uncomfortable, sometimes riding in a crude passenger car, sometimes in an empty boxcar, sometimes alone, standing on the tracks in the middle of the great northern Wisconsin wilderness. Witness an epic journey of love, danger and family unity.
Anvil of Stars
The "provocative and entertaining follow-up" to The Forge of God: Exiled from their planet, humans unite with one alien race in the fight against another ( Publishers Weekly). The Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying eighty-two young people: fighters, strategists, scientists—and children. After one alien culture destroyed their home, another offered the opportunity for revenge in the form of a starship built from fragments of the Earth's corpse, a ship they now use to scour the universe in search of their enemy. Working with sophisticated nonhuman technologies that need new thinking to comprehend them, they're cut off forever from the people they left behind. De...
