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Book

A high price for freedom : raising hidden voices from the African American past

Call Number

  • 973.0496 F6993 (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2026]

Physical Description

337 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"In A High Price for Freedom, house author and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Publishing Project, Clyde Ford surfaces the voices of those buried in the African American past to tell the stories of critical moments in the Black Freedom Struggle, challenging what readers think they know about Black history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

  • From the womb of struggle
  • The legend of Molly Welsh, the storyof Benjamin Banneker
  • Allahu Akbar, America : Islam and the Black freedom struggle
  • Black bodies, White medicine
  • We knowed what was goin' on
  • Music, myth and Stono
  • Hollerin' for freedom
  • Blue Notes
  • The Minister and the Mahatma
  • Black troops only
  • The march that never happened, the man that wasnever there
  • A high price for freedom, part I
  • A high price forfreedom, part II.

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