A high price for freedom : raising hidden voices from the African American past / Clyde W. Ford.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063309814
- ISBN: 0063309815
- ISBN: 9780063309821
- ISBN: 0063309823
- Physical Description: 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2026]
- Copyright: ©2026
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Hot Springs Library | 973.049 FOR (Text) | 30229101318714 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Goldsboro Library | 973.049 FOR (Text) | 900005000314715 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
| High Point Library | 973.0496 Ford (Text) | 30519010992819 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library | 973.049 F (Text) | 39149008504839 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Leicester Library | 973.0496073 FOR (Text) | 0020514035425 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
| North Regional Library | CMB1965057 (Text) | CMB1965058 | Technical Services | In process | - |
| Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield | 973.0496 Ford (Text) | 38950611615230 | Upright Display First Floor | Checked out | 08/07/2026 |
| West Regional Library | CMB1965057 (Text) | CMB1965057 | Technical Services | In process | - |
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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.
