African American Interest Titles Spring 2020 {IPG} Daughter of the Boycott Carrying On a Montgomery Family's Civil Rights Legacy Karen Gray Houston Summary In 1950, before Montgomery knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, before the city’s famous boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white policeman during an encounter involving a ride on a city bus. Brooks and Thomas Gray played football together as kids. Gray and other fellow veterans, outraged about an unjustifiable fatal shooting, protested, eventually staging a major march against police brutality downtown. Five years later, Gray protested again, this time against the unjust treatment of Negroes on the city's segregated buses. Daughter of the Boycott is Karen Gray Houston’s story of her family’s involvement in the historic Montgomery Lawrence Hill Books bus boycott, the action that kick-started the civil rights movement. Her father, Thomas W. Gray Sr., and her 9781641603034 uncle, Fred D. Gray, were boycott leaders. Fred, fresh out of law school, represented Martin Luther King Jr., Pub Date: 5/5/20 On Sale Date: 5/5/20 Rosa Parks, and rarely mentioned teenage activist Claudette Colvin, a named plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle , the $27.99 USD Supreme Court case that forced A... Discount Code: LON Hardcover Contributor Bio 240 Pages Karen Gray Houston is an award-winning broadcast journalist whose career has spanned more than four Carton Qty: 0 decades, including 20 years as a local news reporter for Washington, DC’s WTTG-TV, Fox-5. She was a Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage correspondent for NBC News covering the Reagan White House and the US Capitol, an anchor for the ABC BIO002010 Radio Network, as well as a reporter/anchor for WTOP News Radio in DC and WHDH-AM in Boston. She lives 9 in H | 6 in W near Washington, DC. The Brown Bullet Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate Auto Racing Bill Poehler Summary The powers-that-be in auto racing in the 1920s, namely the American Automobile Association’s Contest Board, prohibited everyone who wasn’t a white male from the sport. Dewey Gaston, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, broke into the epicenter of racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of white drivers. In The Brown Bullet, Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track, and in the end, tells how Rajo Jack proved to a generation that a black man could compete with some of the greatest white drivers of his era, wining some of the biggest races of the day. Lawrence Hill Books 9781641602297 Pub Date: 5/5/20 Contributor Bio $28.99 USD Bill Poehler is an award-winning investigative journalist based in the northwest, where he has worked as a Discount Code: LON Hardcover reporter for the Statesman Journal for 21 years. His work has appeared in the Oregonian, the Eugene Register-Guard and the Corvallis Gazette-Times ; online at OPB.org and KGW.com; and in magazines including 240 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Slant Six News , Racing Wheels , National Speed Sport News and Dirt Track Digest . He lives in Salem, Oregon. Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage BIO002010 9 in H | 6 in W IPG Spring 2020 African American Interest - December 2019 Page 1 {IPG} Ballots and Bullets Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland James Robenalt Summary On July 23, 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black nationalists in a night of terror that saw 6 people killed and at least 15 wounded. The gun battle touched off days of heavy rioting. The confrontation was surprising given that Cleveland had just elected Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major US city, who just four months earlier had kept peace in Cleveland the night that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Now his credibility and reputation lay in tatters; the leader of the black nationalists, Fred Ahmed Evans, had used Cleveland NOW! public funds to buy the rifles and ammunition used in the shootout. Ballots and Bullets looks at the roots of the violence and its political aftermath in Cleveland, a uniquely important city in the civil rights Lawrence Hill Books movement. Fifty years later, the specter of race violence and police brutality still haunts the United States. 9781641603119 Pub Date: 7/7/20 Contributor Bio On Sale Date: 7/7/20 $19.99 USD James Robenalt is a trial lawyer and the author of January 1973 , The Harding Affair , and Linking Rings . He Discount Code: LON lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Trade Paperback 400 Pages Carton Qty: 0 History / United States HIS036060 9 in H | 6 in W | 1.2 in T | 1.6 lb Wt All the Dreams We've Dreamed A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago's West Side Rus Bradburd Summary Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams . In January of 2014, Marshall’s struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fire on Harrington’s car as he drove his daughter to school. Using his body to shield her, Harrington was struck and paralyzed. The mistaken-identity shooting was followed by a series of events that had a devastating impact on Harrington and Marshall’s basketball family. Over the next three years it became obvious that the dream of the game providing a better life had nearly dissolved. Author Rus Bradburd Lawrence Hill Books tells Shawn’s story with empathy and care, exploring the intertwined tragedies of gun violence, health care 9781641602723 failure, racial assumptions, struggling educational systems, corruption in athletics—and the hope that can Pub Date: 3/3/20 On Sale Date: 3/3/20 survive them all. $17.99 USD Discount Code: LON Contributor Bio Trade Paperback Chicago native Rus Bradburd is the author of three previous books: the short story collection Make It, Take 272 Pages It ; the controversial Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson ; and his memoir about Carton Qty: 0 Ireland, Paddy on the Hardwood . He coached basketball for 14 seasons at UTEP and New Mexico State. Rus History / United States HIS036070 and his wife, the award-winning poet Connie Voisine, live with their daughter in Chicago and New Mexico. 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.9 in T | 1.2 lb Wt IPG Spring 2020 African American Interest - December 2019 Page 2 {IPG} A Gazelle Ate My Homework A Journey from Ivory Coast to America, from African to Black, and from Undocumented to Doctor (with side trips into several religions and assorted misadventures) Habib Fanny, Ali, A. Rizvi Summary Sick of living in the shadows of a corrupt post-colonial Ivory Coast, intrepid gazelle hunter Habib Fanny schemes to see the opulence of America for himself, with naught but rudimentary raft-making skills and his trusty spear to aid him. Well...that’s one version of the story, at least. In truth, Fanny’s story takes him on an adventure across continents, around dangerous political intrigue, into the depths of poverty, and through the complicated systems that provide him with a medical education. His journey to become an American is beset not by lions and man-eating sharks, but rather by persistent internal questions, which he attacks with the Thorntree Press same rigor he brings to his schooling. What does it mean to be a Muslim, a Christian, an agnostic, or possibly, 9781944934941 maybe, an atheist? What does it mean to be African in America, but not yet Black? And how on earth do you Pub Date: 4/10/20 On Sale Date: 4/10/20 deal with the dating scene? As he navigates the shifting waters of cultural identity, he’s forced to confront his $17.95 USD own colonialist prejudices. Habib Fanny—that’s Doctor Habib Fanny, M.D., actually—doesn’t find gold-paved Discount Code: LON streets in ... Trade Paperback 264 Pages Contributor Bio Carton Qty: 40 Habib Fanny is a physician who grew up in post-colonial Cote d'Ivoire before moving to the US. He now lives Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage in Memphis, Tennessee. Ali A. Rizvi is the author of The Atheist Muslim. BIO002010 Ebooks 8 in H | 5.3 in W 9781944934958 9781944934965 Checkmate Nick Fullen-Collins, AnnaLisa Grant, Randy Holcomb Summary Despite growing up in the projects of Chicago’s West Side in the 1960s, Richard “Rico” Townsend believed he was destined for greatness. By the 1980s, his greatness would lie in becoming the most successful drug lord Chicago had ever seen. Sexy, brilliant, and shrewd, Rico was a cunning businessman. Every move he made was carefully orchestrated, mirroring his favorite game of strategy—chess. It wasn’t until Aja walked into his life that Rico realized he wanted something else. He wanted love and a family, and he was ready to leave the empire he built behind ... if it wasn’t too late. A modern-day Robin Hood to some, whose best friend was a Chicago PD Detective, Rico built an illegal empire the Feds couldn’t infiltrate—or so he thought. Vesuvian Books 9781944109769 Contributor Bio Pub Date: 8/25/20 AnnaLisa Grant is the bestselling author of The Lake Series, which ranked #1 on Amazon for several $18.95 USD consecutive months and has over 1 million copies in circulation.