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Books For Africa (BFA) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to collecting, sorting, shipping, and distributing books to children and adults in Africa. BFA is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA and has warehouses in St. Paul and Marietta, Georgia. Books For Africa is the largest shipper of donated text and library books [1 ...
The book contained Du Bois's feminist essay, "The Damnation of Women", which was a tribute to the dignity and worth of women, particularly black women. [187] Concerned that textbooks used by African-American children ignored black history and culture, Du Bois created a monthly children's magazine, The Brownies' Book. Initially published in 1920 ...
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 is a 2021 anthology of essays, commentaries, personal reflections, short stories, and poetry, compiled and edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Conceived and created to commemorate the four hundred years that had passed since the arrival of the first Africans in ...
Sep. 14—A local nonprofit celebrated the shipment of more than 150,000 books to Kenya Wednesday afternoon from its warehouse in Marietta. Books For Africa board members, employees and volunteers ...
Darktown, published in 2016, is the fourth novel by American author Thomas Mullen. Its first sequel, Lightning Men, was published in September 2017. In 2020 Midnight Atlanta, the second seuqel, was published. This novel, based in 1948 Atlanta, blends elements of historical fiction and crime fiction to tell the story of Lucius Boggs and Tommy ...
The purpose of the Atlanta Conference of Negro Problems was to outline the many difficulties that the black community faced, to suggest solutions to these problems, and to publicize grievances with modern social protocols. This organization attempted to come up with solutions for the then-current problems facing the black community.
Booker T. Washington. Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite . Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed ...
www .afpls .org /aarl. The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History is a special library within the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. It is in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Historic District. [1] The Auburn Avenue Research Library opened in 1994 as the first library in the Southeast to offer specialized reference and ...