April 2011 - Knights of Imhotep Library

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Malcolm X. Rights Activist and Nation of Islam Leader
More than a string of fact and dates, the Essential Lives series reveals the influences that shaped each individual and how, in turn, each individ...
Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare
This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King,...
Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
In September 1937, three years before his death, Marcus Garvey assembled a small group of his most trusted organizers. For almost a quarter of a ce...
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
The Horn Book called this classic biography of Harriet Tubman an "unusually well-written and moving life of the 'Moses of her people.'" An accessib...
The Death and Life of Malcolm X
The Death and Life of Malcolm X provides a dramatic portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century. Focusing on Malcol...
Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the d...
Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism
During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest created...
Class Struggle In Africa by Kwame Nkrumah
Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-colonialism and the African bourgeoisie. This book r...
Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies
The provocative debate about Malcolm X’s legacy that emerged after the publication of Manning Marable’s 2011 biography raised critical questions abo...
Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power
The foundations for the explosive rise of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. beginning in the mid-1950s were laid by the massive migration of...
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program...
The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest
Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union—the most prestigious student debating organization in the Uni...
Living in the Era of Revolution: The Words of Malcolm X
Malcolm X's everlasting legacy is celebrated through his quotes, speeches and letters. Even to this day, many of his views remain relevant and his m...
The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was shot and killed. Now, based on fifteen years of research, including hundreds of interviews and the examination o...
The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution
This unique psychobiographical study integrates a wide and subtle view of the history of white racism and the black liberation movement with a deep ...
Black Moses Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds of a new black pride and determination. Attacked by the black intelligentsia and ridic...
Revolutionary Path by Kwame Nkrumah
This book, compiled durting the last two years of the author's life, demonstrates the growth, development and consistency of Kwame Nkrumah's politic...
The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches By Malcolm
Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African-American leaders of the 19...
From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me
An embarrassing consecration by a disciple whom Malcolm X redeemed from self-hatred, degradation, alcohol and drugs. Jamal enshrines him as a religi...
Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versu...
Kwame Nkrumah's Contribution to Pan-Africanism An Afrocentric Analysis
This study analyzes contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of Pan-African agency from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in M...
A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X
A Lie of Reinvention is a response to Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X, A Life of Reinvention. Marable’s book was controversially acclaimed ...
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
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PowerNomics- The National Plan to Empower Black America - Dr. Claud Anderson
PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America is a five-year plan to make Black America a prosperous and empowered race that is self-suff...
Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI the Caribbean Diaspora 1910-1920
With Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920, Duke University Press proudly assumes publication of the final volumes of The Marcus Garvey and...
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization by Anthony T. Browder
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The Peopling of Ancient Egypt & the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script by Cheikh Anta Diop
The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of Meroitic Script: Proceedings of the Symposium Held in Cairo from 28 January to 3 February 1974...
The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were by J.A. Rogers
oel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history o...
Nature Knows No Color Line by J A Rogers
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The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy by Amos N. Wilson
"[Exposes] the role Eurocentric history-writing plays in rationalizing European oppression of Afrikan peoples and in the falsification of Afrikan...
African People in World History by John Henrik Clarke
Dr. John Henrik Clarke s African People in World History inaugurates the Black Classic Press Contemporary Lecture Series. This series is devoted ...
From Superman to Man - J.A. Rogers
A fearless and penetrating discussion of America’s Greatest Problem The most debated points of the race question as the relative mentality, physical...
Walter Rodney Speaks : The Making of an African Intellectual
A dialogue held in Amherst, Massachusetts, where Rodney discussed his own political and intellectual development, and exchanged views on the role o...
Egypt Child of Africa - Ivan Van Sertima
Topics covered include African origins of ancient Egyptian civilizations, the racial identity of ancient Egyptian populations, the persisten...
The Groundings With My Brothers - Walter Rodney
Walter Rodney was banned from re-entering Jamaica on October 15, 1968, after attending a Black Writers Conference in Montreal, Canada. As a consequ...
Malcom X the Last Speeches
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Malcom X Talks to the Young People in U.S, Britian, and Africa
This expanded edition includes four talks and an interview given to young people in Ghana, the United Kingdom, and the United States in the last mo...
Malcolm X on Afro-American History (Malcolm X speeches & writings)
Recounts the hidden history of the labor of people of African origin and their achievements. Download Link
African Origins of Major "Western Religions" by Yosef A. A. Ben-Jochannan
African Origins of the Major "Western Religions" first published in 1970, continues to be one of Dr. Ben's most thought-provoking works. This cri...
Maat the 11 Laws of God - Ra Un Nefer Amen
In Maat, the 11 Laws of God, Ra Un Nefer Amen shares the revelations he has received concerning the laws governing the principles and forces — corr...
Africa and Africans as Seen by Classical Writers (African History Notebook) (Vol. 2) by William Leo Hansberry
In this groundbreaking study, the father of African Studies, William Leo Hansberry, examines classical references to the African continent and its ...
Pillars in Ethiopian History Vol. I: William Leo Hansberry African History Notebook
PILLARS IN ETHIOPIAN HISTORY,The William Leo Hansberry African History Notebook, Volume I Edited by Joseph E. Harris Taken from William Leo Hansber...
Pan African Nationalism in the Americas: The Life and Times of John Henrik Clarke
As one of the pioneering scholars in the discipline of Africana Studies, John Henrik Clarke spent majority of his adult life, researching, rescuing...
Introduction to the Study of African Classical Civilizations-Runoko Rashidi
The beauty of studying selected portions of history is that you get to learn about every other portion of history by happen-stance. Subsequently a...
African Presence in Early America - Ivan Van Sertima
This volume presents what is presently known about the links between Africa and America before the age of Columbus. It makes a convincing case for p...
Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth
'This exercise is about more than our desire to read and understand Wretched (as if it were about some abstract world, and not our own); it's about...
Slave Trade and Slavery - John Henrik Clarke
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Cheikh Anta Diop: An African Scientist (Pan African Internationalist Handbook, Book 1) by Cheikh Anta Diop and E. Curtis Alexander
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Black Titan: W. E. B. DuBois: An Anthology by the Editors of Freedomways -John Henrik Clarke
Black Titan: W. E. B. DuBois: An Anthology by the Editors of Freedomways -John Henrik Clarke Dwnload Link
Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa by John Henrik Clarke
First published in 1974, and edited by John Henrik Clarke with the aid of Amy Jacques Garvey, this is a superbly edited collection of writings refl...
Harlem U.S.A. by John Henrik Clarke
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Malcom X: The FBI File
The FBI has made possible a reassembling of the history of Malcolm X that goes beyond any previous research. From the opening of his file in March ...
Black-On-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination by Amos N. Wilson
Excellent book! "The psychodynamics of black self annihilation in service of white domination." Contents include: "The sociopolitical necessity of...
Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression
This is a biography of Frantz Fanon. It presents an absorbing and careful ac count of several impressive themes. First is the review and assessmen...
A Dying Colonialism Frantz Fanon
An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embr...
Developmental Psychology of the Black Child: by Amos N. Wilson
The first of a UBCS series of books dealing with the growth, development, and education of the black child; the first book which deals exclusively ...
Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children by Amos N. Wilson
Gives parents the blueprint for stimulating the highest intellectual potential of their child. Download Link
Garvey, Lumumba and Malcolm - Black National-Separatists
Garvey, Lumumba, and Malcolm ; Black Nationalist Separatists is both Accurate & Timely. Well read and insightful of Black Heroes continuous journey...
Who Betrayed the African World Revolution? - John Henrik Clarke
This collection of speeches covers an array of topics from the contributions of Nile Vally civilizations to the future of Pan-Africanism in the...
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the ...
Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany
Before Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the fo...
Black Power and the Garvey Movement
This provocative study examines the far-reaching influence of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Theodore G. Vincent d...
Sex and Race, Volume I: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands: The Old World - J.A. Rogers
Well researched and documented. This the living classic. Download Link
World's Great Men of Color, Volume I: Asia and Africa, and Historical Figures Before Christ, Including Aesop, Hannibal, Cleopatra, Zenobia, Askia the Great, and Many Others - J.A. Rogers
The classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age. World’s Great...
The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society
Class more than race was the key to Garvey (1887-1940) and his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), argues Stein (History, City Coll., C...
Kwame Nkrumah. Vision and Tragedy
"The yearlong celebration of Ghana's Golden Jubilee provides a fitting context for the republication of the book Kwame Nkrumah: Vision and Tragedy...
John Henrik Clarke and the Power of Africana History: Africalogical Quest for Decolonization and Sovereignty
In the late 1960s through the late 1980s, the late John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) was one of the foremost architects of the emerging discipline of ...
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914. He was one of the first black leaders to encourage black people to discov...
Malcolm X: Collected Speeches, Debates and Interviews
Never before published, Malcolm X: Collected Speeches, Debates and Interviews (1960-1965) is an 800-page e-book in PDF format (3.77 MB) compiling a...
As Nature Leads : An Informal Discussion of the Reason Why Negro and Caucasian Are Mixing in Spite of Opposition by J.A. Rogers
As Nature Leads, an early work by J.A. Rogers (1883-1966), was originally published in a limited edition in 1919 as a sequel to his first book, Fr...
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements by Malcolm X and George Breitman
These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for ab...
Metu Neter Vol. 2: Anuk Ausar, The Kamitic Initiation System by Ra Un Nefer Amen
You will find in this book, for the time, a complete step by step guidance to achieving spiritual perfection, and a successful life, based on the K...
We, the Black Jews: Witness to the 'White Jewish Race' Myth, Volumes I & II (in One) by Yosef A. A. ben-Jochannan
Dr. Ben destroys the myth of a "white Jewish race" and the bigotry that has denied the existence of an African Jewish culture. He establishes the ...
The Saga of the Black Marxists Versus the Black Nationalists by Yosef Ben Jochannan
The Saga of the "Black Marxists" versus the "Black Nationalists"
Metu Neter Vol.3 the key to miracles by Ra Un Nefer Amen
Success through spiritual means is the essence of spirituality as far as life on earth is concerned. We all know that However useful it is to culti...
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to The World History of The Negro - J.A. Rogers
First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers’ columns from the syndicated newspape...
Black Africa - The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State by Cheikh Anta Diop
This expanded edition continues Diop's campaign for the political and economic unification of the nations of black Africa. It concludes with a len...
Metu Neter Vol. 1 by Ra Un Amen Nefer
The oracles of Ancient Black Civilizations aimed to guide individuals and nations in all areas of life. Through them it was possible to discover th...
Great African Thinkers: Cheikh Anta Diop (Great African Thinkers, Volume 1) by Ivan Van Sertima
This book, the first in a series of work on Africans, whose life and thought have left a major impact on the world, is devoted to the Senegalese ...
Malcom X : A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Hailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the ...
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution by Kwame Nkrumah
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Martin R. Delany:A Documentary Reader
Martin R. Delany (1812-85) has been called the "Father of Black Nationalism," but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolition...
Black Man of the Nile and His Family by Yosef ben-Jochannan
In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose "Europeanized" African history. Order Black Man of the...
Malcolm X: Militant Black Leader (Black Americans of Achievement)
Presents the life of Malcolm X, a radical visionary of the 1960s known for attacking American racial attitudes and advocating a separate society f...
Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy by G.M. James
The term Greek philosophy, to begin with a misnomer, for there is no such philosophy in existence. The ancient Egyptians had developed a very compl...
Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Politics: An African-Centered Paradigm for the Second Phase of the African Revolution
This study critically synthesizes and analyses the relationship between Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural philosophy and policies as an African-ce...
The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah remains a towering figure in African history. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent campaign of civil disobedience, he led what i...
Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787
Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years....
Egypt Revisited-Ivan Van Sertima
This volume represents a new departure in the examination of Egypt's place in the African context. It brings together the latest research of the 1...
Making Malcolm (The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X) by Michael Eric Dyson
Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony. The nineties are marked by intense and often angry debates about raci...
Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire by Drusilla Houston
Writer, activist, and indefatigable community leader in the American West, Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1876-1941) offers a remarkable, well-researched...
Introduction to African Civilization by John G Jackson
This is a unique and pioneering survey of the ancient and contemporary (1937) African world. Huggins views Africa and African accomplishments from...
Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah: Freedom Fighters' Edition
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Malcolm X For Beginners
Powerful narrative and graphics tell the story of Malcolm X's life, his journey of self-discovery, his far-reaching ideas, his martyrdom, and hi...
Yosef Ben Jochannan-Ta-Merry and Her Religious Persecutors From Judaism-christianity-Islam to Marxian Humanism or the Origins of Western Civilization From Israel-sumeria-greece by Yosef ben-Jochannan
Yosef Ben Jochannan-Ta-Merry and Her Religious Persecutors From Judaism-christianity-Islam to Marxian Humanism or the Origins of Western Civilizati...
New Dimensions in African History: The London Lectures of Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan and Dr. John Henrik Clarke
From the Nile valley to the new world, science invention and technology. The London lectures of Dr. John henrik Clarke and Dr Yosef ben-Jochan...
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumula...
Martin R. Delany- The Origin And Objects of Ancient Freemasonry-Its Introduction Into the United States and Legitimacy Among Colored Men
Brother Martin R. Delany: Sir -- The undersigned have been appointed a Committee from St. Cyprian Lodge No. 13 of A. Y. Masons, to solicit the ...
The Origin of Races and Color by Martin R. Delany
Of the books authored by Martin R. Delany (1812-1885), The Origin of Races and Color is perhaps the most obscure. Out-of-print until now, it has...
The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley
If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His...