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In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, a publication by the Schomburg Center and National Geographic Hardcover, 224 pp., 170 illustrations and four maps, $35
From the Schomburg Center comes this extraordinary chronicle of a people whose movements over the last 500 years, both coerced and willing, inspired a culture and shaped a nation. Follow-up to the critically acclaimed Jubilee, this landmark work covers four major periods of migration—with twelve individual migrations coming up to contemporary times—that define the African-American experience and shaped the cultural, religious, economic, and political life of the communities in which they settled.

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Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture

ju•bi•lee:

1: a season of celebration; 2: an African-American religious song usually referring to a time of future happiness - Webster’s 9th Collegiate Dictionary

Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture, a beautifully illustrated four-color volume, documents the courageous and innovative ways that enslaved Africans developed their own unique culture in the midst of slavery and examines how that culture evolved and flourished through the years after emancipation to the turn of the century. With Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Buckley, John Hope Franklin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Annette Gordon-Reed, and Gayraud S. Wilmore.

From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library and National Geographic Society, hardcover, 224 pages, $35

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Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Celebration of Black Prayer

From the darkest days on slave ships to the most defiant moments of the Civil Rights Movement, prayer, more than any aspect of religion, has embodied the most intense expression of traditional African and African-American spirituality. In this one-of-a-kind volume, striking photographs and inspiring prayers drawn primarily from the unparalleled collections of the Schomburg Center span the broad spectrum of religious traditions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reflecting themes relevant to the black experience—including struggle, triumph, worship, family, and community—Standing in the Need of Prayer features examples from diverse religious traditions, including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Yoruba, and Vodou. The book also includes prayers from some of history’s most powerful voices, among them W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and The Free Press, Foreword by Coretta Scott King, $27.50, 224 pp.