A noted scholar and author of The Black Muslims in America argues that Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism have accommodated themselves to predominant social and political mores and require serious self-examination. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This new edition of Lincoln's classic study details the formation and development of the Black Muslim movement through its wide-ranging expressions in America today, focusing especially on Louis Farrakhan's movement as the true successor to the original Nation of Islam founded by Elijah Muhammad...read more

Product Description: In Coming through the Fire, prominent scholar and writer C. Eric Lincoln addresses the most important issue of our time with insights forged by a lifetime of confronting racial oppression in America. Born in a small rural town in northern Alabama, raised by his grandparents, Lincoln portrays in rich detail the nuances of racial conflict and control that characterized the community of Athens, personal experiences which would lead him to dedicate his life to illuminating issues of race and social identity...read more

Product Description: The Avenue in C. Eric Lincoln’s fictional town is the principal residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars. Unpaved and marked by ditches full of frogs, snakes, and empty whiskey bottles on one side of town, it is the same street, though with a different name, that originates downtown...read more

An updated edition of the authoritative history of African Americans, from 1619 to the present, incorporates more than one hundred new photographs documenting developments over the last decade and celebrates the contributions of a range of notable personalities. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: poetry, from the 1940s-80s by Black scholar

Collection of essays, focusing on the years of King's civil rights crusade, which seek to define the man, his contribution to society and his place in American history

Details issues, events, and personalities that have fashioned the progress and culture of Blacks in America

Product Description: Have We Overcome? Race Relations Since Brown, 1954-1979 Edited by Michael V. Namorato Essays by Lerone Bennett, Jr., Vincent Harding, Morton J. Horwitz, William E. Leuchtenburg, Henry M. Levin, C. Eric Lincoln, and Robert H. Wiebe On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court rendered the first of two historic decisions in Brown v...read more