San Antonio College Library

"Arriving on ships named Brotherhood and John the Baptist, slaves who had previously embraced tribal religions in their home countries faced the Christianity of their captors. Africans did not simply adopt the religion of the European colonists; they used the power, principles, and practices of Christianity to blaze a path to freedom and deliverance. In the process, the moral fabric of the nation was tested and took on a new texture and strength unique...

Handbook for students and the general reader.

Examines African-American life at the close of World War II, describes the struggle for freedom and justice during the 1940s and 1950s, and discusses the explosive years of the 1960s.

Pictorial survey by a Black historian from early origins in Africa through contemporary times, including numerous rare drawings and photographs.

These volumes trace the black convention movement in the years following the Civil War.

A history of the Negro in the United States, tracing his great kingdoms in Africa prior to the fifteenth century, slavery in the new world, the underground railroad, his status during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and his increasing movements for recognition and acceptance in the twentieth century.