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A high price for freedom : raising hidden voices from the African American past / Clyde W. Ford.

Raising hidden voices from the African American past (portion title)
Ford, Clyde W., (author.).

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.

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  • 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]

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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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African Americans > History.
African Americans > Biography.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Genre:
Biographies.

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