An integral part of American heritage... From before the slave trade to the liberation of the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans have shared the country’s trials and triumphs. The segregationist orientation they have been faced with through the ages continues - in modified terms - to the present day. In his historical 1791 letter to President Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Banneker wrote - "I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt, and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments."
However, America’s colored community has spawned some of its greatest statesmen, religious leaders and literary personages - and displayed a level of courage and endurance that remains unparalleled in the modern world.
The African American History and Tribute CD from A2ZCDS traces the emergence and development of America’s colored community - from its initial years of oppression to present-day maturity. This compilation holds a chronicle of historical African American background material. Included are rare, period-specific manuscripts that addressed contemporary issues as well as miscellaneous historical articles from leading Ohio newspapers, and speeches dating back as far as 1864. This definitive collection also features pamphlets on black slavery and culture, groundbreaking press releases and serial articles from the African Methodist Episcopal Church Review that accurately reflect how colored Americans saw themselves in the turbulent preceding centuries.
With the African American History and Tribute CD you will also be able to trace African American military history and relive some of the debates that black participation in the Armed Forces spawned in bygone ages. The immense wealth of vintage photographs included in the visuals section cover diverse topics from the black representation in the Civil War and baseball, and also features several private and government collections.
All in all, the African American History and Tribute CD from A2ZCDS presents you with an accurate and compassionate synopsis of the African-American community and depicts landmark events, people and documents that were instrumental in bringing it into its own.
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EDITORIAL REVIEW:
"One of man’s greatest failings has always been to prejudge and form attitudes based on lack of information rather than on the strength of it. Nowhere in the contemporary American mindset has this fact been displayed more vigorously than in our dealings with colored citizens. We inherit our biases almost as a birthright, and rarely - if ever - bother to form educated opinions.
Information on America’s colored community, though available, is diffusely distributed over a bewildering range of media consisting of books, magazines, treatises, theses, film clips, historical documents, rarely seen websites and music archives. As such, it cannot become the subject of real study except for the most determined sociological researcher. This is why I found the African American History and Tribute CD from A2ZCDS such an invaluable resource. Browsing through its contents will go a long way in shedding common misconceptions and gaining a fresh understanding of what it means to be an African American."
