This political history of middle-class African American women during World War I focuses on their patriotic activity and social work. Nearly 200,000 African American men joined the Allied forces in France. At home, black clubwomen raised more than $125 million in wartime donations and assembled "comfort kits" for black soldiers, with chocolate, cigarettes, socks, a bible, and writing materials. Given the hostile racial climate of the day, why did black women make considerable financial contributions to the American and Allied war effort? Brown argues that black women approached the war from the nexus of the private sphere of home and family and the public sphere of community and labor activism. Their activism supported their communities and was fueled by a personal attachment to black soldiers and black families. Private Politics and Public Voices follows their lives after the war, when they carried their debates about race relations into public political activism.

Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal (Blacks in the Diaspora)

History

Brown, Nikki

Military

Indiana University Press

He Brings Out The Hood In me 4

lulu.com

Laurence Marks was determined to be more than the life that was forced on her after her father was gunned down in front of her on her fourteenth birthday. With a mother that sought solace in a liquor bottle, Lala had to not only take care of herself but her mother to. When things get tough and the walls begin to close around her there is one person that she knows that she can turn to, her best friend Heart.Heart Quamere Strong live his life by his rules, being thrown away at birth killed something inside of him that caused him to look at life differently. He never had anyone to show him love so he vowed to never give it, until Lala comes in and occupies the space that he had condemned. The bond between Lala and Heart grows the more life throws at them and when things heat up so much that neither one of them can ignore their feelings, things become complicated. Will they follow their heart, or will life get in the way of whatÕs meant to be?

A Hood Love Like No Other

Romance

A Hood Love Like No Other 2

There are still moments where women cant be brutally honest and are scared, hopeless, or tired. All of what makes up a woman in her valley or standing proudly at the peak of her accomplishment is here. It is truthful, bold, a celebration on paper of all of us: the married, the single, the in-between, the having fun, the worker, the thinker, the undefined. These are our stories.

Under My Dress

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

AuthorHouse

This one-volume reference work examines a broad range of topics related to the establishment, maintenance, and eventual dismantling of the discriminatory system known as Jim Crow.
Many Americans imagine that African Americans' struggle to achieve equal rights has advanced in a linear fashion from the end of slavery until the present. In reality, for more than six decades, African Americans had their civil rights and basic human rights systematically denied in much of the nation. Jim Crow: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic sheds new light on how the systematic denigration of African Americans after slavery―known collectively as "Jim Crow"―was established, maintained, and eventually dismantled.
Written in a manner appropriate for high school and junior high students as well as undergraduate readers, this book examines the period of Jim Crow after slavery that is often overlooked in American history curricula. An introductory essay frames the work and explains the significance and scope of this regrettable period in American history. Written by experts in their fields, the accessible entries will enable readers to understand the long hard road before the inception of the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th century while also gaining a better understanding of the experiences of minorities in the United States―African Americans, in particular.
 • Provides a one-stop source of information for students researching the period of American history dominated by the discriminatory system of Jim Crow laws
• Puts phenomena such as "Sundown towns" within a larger framework of official discrimination
• Documents the methods used to create, maintain, and dismantle Jim Crow

Jim Crow: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

Biographies & Memoirs

Stentiford, Barry M.

Community & Culture

Greenwood

*******This is a RE-RELEASE******** Complete Standalone Novel! Vexed, guarded, and full of hate, in a world filled with lies, deceit and drama!!! Vexler "Vex" Streets was raised to be loyal before anything else, but he soon finds out that not everyone is cut from the same cloth. After losing everything and everyone that was important to him, Vex is back on the streets and ready to live the life he's always wanted. With a cold heart and revenge on his mind will he be able to push through the past or will he get sucked back into the same hole he just crawled out of. Majesti Messenger has always put her family first in every aspect of her life, even when they criticize her at every turn. When she is forced to choose between their approval or the one thing she's never had, love, which way will her heart sway? Will she choose her family, or will she finally break free from their grasp and do what's best for her?Mythias "Myth" Vargas, the prince of the Vargas Cartel has one thing on his mind, getting money. When Belicia, the woman he thought he would spend the rest of his life with, leaves him high and dry he builds a wall around his heart. He's content with his life until he crosses paths with the sassy Henli, will she have what it takes to break through the barriers of his heart or will her own secrets keep their hearts from connecting. Henli Banks has always been independent and head strong, doing whatever it takes to survive in such a harsh world, even if it means compromising her dignity. After finally accomplishing what she set out to do, she's ready to cut her dead weight, also known as her boyfriend Zuke, and move on to bigger and better things. The only problem is that her sketchy past just might prevent her happily ever after.It seems like the past always comes back to haunt this crew in one way or another, but when their past threatens the success of their future they have to find a way to get ahead of it. Will the secrets and drama swallow them whole or will they find their way to love?

Love The Gangsta Way

United States

Independently published

The Heart Of A Bad Boy

The 6:42 from London Bridge: Lekture + Klett-Augmented

Reference

Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH

The Way My Heart Is Built

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