Central Kansas Library System

"In this fascinating and enlightening work, military historian Michael Lee Lanning reveals the little-known, critical, and heroic role African Americans played in the American Revolution, serving in integrated units#x97;-a situation that wouldn#x92;t exist again until the Korean War, more than 150 years later."--Back cover.

When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the...

A literary portrait of contrasting visions and styles covers the key issues important to the African-American experience, including poetry on slavery, the South, protest and resistance, music and religion, spirituality, sexuality and love, and the idea of Africa.

"Tony Williams, Billy Taylor, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Bobby McFerrin, Jeffrey Mumford, and others share the stories of their lives and musical philosophy in conversations with one of their own. From the early influences in their lives, whether musical or otherwise, through their struggles against a society that has marginalized composers of color from the very beginning, these talented musicians talk about what success means and why their fight is far...