African American Interest Titles Spring 2019 {IPG} Conviction The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Civil Rights Denver Nicks, John Nicks Summary On New Year’s Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified several suspects: convicts who had been at a craps game with one of the victims the night before. Also at the craps game was a young black farmer named W. D. Lyons. As anger at authorities grew, political pressure mounted to find a villain. The governor's representative settled on Lyons, who was arrested, tortured into signing a confession, and tried for the murder. The NAACP's new Legal Defense and Education Fund sent its young chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall, to take part in the trial. The NAACP desperately needed money, and Marshall was convinced that the Lyons case could be a fundraising boon for Chicago Review Press both the state and national organizations. It was. The case went on to the US Supreme Court, and the NAACP 9781613738337 raised much-needed money from the publicity. Conviction is the story of Lyons v. Oklahoma , the oft-forgotten Pub Date: 6/4/19 On Sale Date: 6/4/19 case that set Marshall and the NAACP on the path that led ultimately to victory in Brown v. Board of $26.99 Education and the accompanying social revoluti... Discount Code: LON Hardcover Contributor Bio 240 Pages Denver Nicks is a contributor to Rolling Stone, National Geographic Traveler and a former staff writer for Carton Qty: 0 Time magazine. He is the author of the books Private and Hot Sauce Nation. John Nicks is an attorney in History / African American HIS056000 Tulsa, Oklahoma, specializing in oil and gas, personal injury and civil rights law. 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.5 in T | 0.6 lb Wt The Black West A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States William Loren Katz Summary This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on America's early frontiers. This revised volume includes an exciting new chapter on the Civil War and the experiences of African Americans on the western frontier. Among its fascinating accounts are those explaining how thousands of enslaved people in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas successfully escaped into the neighboring Indian Territory in Oklahoma. These runaways inspired the idea eventually adopted as the Fulcrum Publishing Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves within the states that were in rebellion. Inspired by a 9781682752265 conversation that William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected Pub Date: 5/1/19 On Sale Date: 5/1/19 stories of daring pioneers like Nat Love, a.k.a. Deadwood Dick; Mary Fields, a.k.a. Stagecoach Mary; Cranford $21.95 Goldsby, a.k.a. Cherokee Bill—and a host of other intrepid men and women who marched into the wilderness Discount Code: LON alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid, an... Trade Paperback 380 Pages Contributor Bio Carton Qty: 18 William Loren Katz is the author of 40 books, including such award-winning titles as Breaking the Chains History / African American HIS056000 and Black Women of the Old West . He has been a Scholar in Residence at Teachers College, Columbia University, and he has served as a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution and to school systems from 9 in H | 6 in W California to Florida and England. IPG Spring 2019 African American Interest - March 2019 Page 1 {IPG} Up Jumped the Devil The Real Life of Robert Johnson Bruce Conforth, Gayle Dean Wardlow Summary Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the blues: he allegedly sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his incredible talent, and this deal led to his death at age 27. But the actual story of his life remains unknown save for a few inaccurate anecdotes. Up Jumped the Devil is the result of over 50 years of research. Gayle Dean Wardlow has been interviewing people who knew Robert Johnson since the early 1960s, and he was the person who discovered Johnson’s death certificate in 1967. Bruce Conforth began his study of Johnson's life and music in 1970 and made it his mission to fill in what was still unknown about him. In this definitive biography, the two authors relied on every interview, resource and document, most of it Chicago Review Press material no one has seen before. As a result, this book not only destroys every myth that ever surrounded 9781641600941 Johnson, but also tells a human story of a real person. It is the first book about Johnson that documents his Pub Date: 6/4/19 On Sale Date: 6/4/19 years in Memphis, details his trip to New York, uncovers where and when his wife Virginia died and the impact $30.00 this had on him... Discount Code: LON Hardcover Contributor Bio 320 Pages Bruce Conforth was a professor of folklore, blues, popular culture and history at the University of Michigan. Carton Qty: 0 He was also the founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Gayle Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians Dean Wardlow is a highly regarded blues historian who has amassed the world’s largest collection of prewar BIO004000 blues records. His book Chasin’ That Devil Music is a classic of blues literature. He lives in Pensacola, Florida. 9 in H | 6 in W Red Hot and Blue Fifty Years of Writing About Memphis, Music, and Motherf**kers Stanley Booth Summary This collection of over 50 years of writing about the South and its music by Stanley Booth, one of the undisputedly great chroniclers of the subject, is a classic, essential read. Booth’s close contacts with many of the musicians he writes about provide a gateway to truly understanding the music and culture of Memphis and other blues strongholds in the South. Subjects include Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, William Eggleston, Ma Rainey, Blind Willie McTell, Graceland, Beale Street and much more. Contributor Bio Chicago Review Press Stanley Booth is the author of The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones , Keith: Till I Roll Over Dead and 9781641601061 Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South . He has written for Rolling Stone , Esquire and Pub Date: 5/7/19 On Sale Date: 5/7/19 Playboy . Before that, he wrote the first serious articles about Elvis Presley and Otis Redding in 1967, and won $19.99/£17.99 UK a major award for his 1970 piece on Furry Lewis. He has continued writing astonishing articles ever since. He Discount Code: LON lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Trade Paperback 400 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Music / Genres & Styles MUS003000 9 in H | 6 in W IPG Spring 2019 African American Interest - March 2019 Page 2 {IPG} Shake Your Hips The Excello Records Story Randy Fox Summary The electrifying sounds of groovin’ jump blues, Southern-fried rock ’n’ roll, fervent black gospel, and the simmering sounds of the Louisiana swamp came bursting out of Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1950s courtesy of Excello Records and its sister Nashboro label. BMG Books 9781947026223 Operating out of Ernie’s Record Mart (“the Record Center of the South!”), Excello forged a partnership with Pub Date: 11/20/18 50,000-watt clear-channel radio station WLAC. The influential station’s dusk-to-dawn broadcasts of rhythm & $21.99 Discount Code: LON blues boomed through the stratosphere, captivating millions of teenagers and crossing racial boundary lines. Trade Paperback The unusual partnership paid huge dividends as Ernie Young transformed his shop into one of the largest 200 Pages mail-order record retailers in the world. Carton Qty: 18 Music / Genres & Styles With his built-in distribution network, Ernie’s own label releases by Slim Harpo, Arthur Gunter, Lightnin’ Slim, MUS003000 Lazy Lester, and more landed in record collections across the US. By the early 1960s, Excello releases were Series: RPM Series reaching the shores of the UK, where they inspired young Brits such as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Eric 7 in H | 7 in W Clapton to launch their own R&B c... Contributor Bio Randy Fox grew up in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. His writing on music has appeared in Vintage Rock , Country Music , the East Nashvillian , Nashville Scene , Record Collector , the Journal of Country Music , and other publications. He is a co-founder of independent, freeform radio station WXNA in Nashville and hosts the Hipbilly Jamboree , a weekly program of classic country, rockabilly, and Western swing. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings A BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation Maya Angelou Summary A brand new dramatization of Maya Angelou's poignant, powerful autobiography—an American classic, beloved worldwide. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir recounts a youth filled with curiosity, wonder, disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and hard-won independence. This radio dramatization, starring Adjoa Andoh ( Doctor Who , BBC Books Casualty ) and Indie Gjesdal, plays out her extraordinary story with dramatic verve and poetic brilliance. 9781787531635 Pub Date: 3/1/19 On Sale Date: 3/1/19 Contributor Bio $15.95/£9.25 UK Discount Code: AUD Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was a poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. I Know Why the Caged Audio CD Bird Sings is one of the most influential memoirs in American literature.