One More Day's Journey chronicles the movement of African Americans from South Carolina to Philadelphia during the Great Migration. Alex Haley said, "It is informative and emotionally moving, and I recommend it." Ralph Ellison said, " I recommend it highly to all who would add to their knowledge of American History."

One More Day's Journey: The Story of a Family and a People

History

Ballard, Allen B.

Americas

McGraw=Hill

An escaped slave, Joe Duckett joins the Union Army during the Civil War, becomes a hero in a black cavalry regiment, and searches for his family as the war draws to an end.

Where I'm Bound: A Novel

Children's Books

Simon&Schuster

When Joe Duckett flees his life as a slave to join the Northern Army as a cavalry scout, he becomes more than a free man -- he becomes a hero. Duckett and his regiment of black soldiers roam Mississippi, freeing slaves and keeping vital waterways open for the Union. But as the war draws to an end, Duckett embarks on his most dangerous mission yet: to return to the plantation from which he escaped to find his wife and daughter. Inspired by the true story of the 3rd U.S. Colored Calvary, Where I'm Bound fictionalizes, for the first time ever, the experiences of an African-American regiment in the Union Army. Serving in more than 160 regiments, 180,000 men have dissolved into history uncelebrated. Now, renowned African-American historian Allen Ballard weaves history and imagination together to bring back to life one forgotten regiment and its fight for freedom in our nation's most tragic war.

Literature & Fiction

United States

One more day's journey: The making of Black Philadelphia (ISHI publications)

Institute for the Study of Human Issues

An award-winning African American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadelphia childhood in the 1930s to midcentury Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan. A rich narrative recounting the life story of award-winning African American historian and novelist Allen B. Ballard, Breaching Jericho’s Walls takes its readers on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadelphia community in the 1930s to midcentury Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan. The author reflects on his own pioneering role as he expands his horizons as one of the first African American students attending Kenyon College in Ohio, studying abroad in France and sharing a café table with Richard Wright and James Baldwin, serving in the military in the American South, and attending graduate school at Harvard University. As one of the nation’s first black Russian specialists, Ballard studied in post-Stalinist Russia for a year, where, among other adventures, he spent a month with Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, on a Soviet farm. Though he tells his own personal story within Breaching Jericho’s Walls, Ballard also portrays the experiences of those northern African Americans whose generations bridged the gap from the legacy of slavery to the breakdown of the segregated system in the 1950s and 1960s. Along the way, he reveals the crucial role that individuals like civil rights leader Paul Robeson, Olympic athletes Jesse Owens and “Long John” Woodruff, and scholar Alain Locke played in inspiring the hopes of an oppressed and downtrodden race. A memoir filled with entertaining anecdotes and insightful reflection, Breaching Jericho’s Walls offers Ballard’s compelling personal story and reveals how, brick by brick, African Americans built the road that led to the election of President Obama in 2008. “Breaching Jericho’s Walls is a journey-through-life book that takes the reader to interesting and very different (surprisingly so) sites of memory where compelling experiences take place. I couldn’t stop reading.” — Gloria Wade-Gayles, editor of My Soul Is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality “This is a rich memoir of African American middle-class life in the midcentury; it complexly considers the relationship between and amongst class aspiration, academic achievement, masculinity, and diverse African American cultural attitudes. It’s immediately relevant to contemporary debates about schooling, race, and differential achievement; it is rich in detail about segregation, civil rights, and African American achievement in the arts, athletics, scholarship, and business.” — James C. Hall, author of Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties

Breaching Jericho's Walls: A Twentieth-Century African American Life (Excelsior Editions)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

State University of New York Press

An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan. A rich narrative recounting the life story of award-winning African American historian and novelist Allen B. Ballard, Breaching Jericho’s Walls takes its readers on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadelphia community in the 1930s to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan. The author reflects on his own pioneering role as he expands his horizons, as one of the first African American students at Ohio’s Kenyon College, studying abroad in France and sharing a café table with Richard Wright and James Baldwin, serving in the military in the American South and attending graduate school at Harvard University. Becoming one of the nation’s first black Russian specialists, Ballard studies in post-Stalinist Russia for a year, where, among other adventures, he spends a month with Michael Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, on a Soviet farm. Though he tells his own personal story within Breaching Jericho’s Walls, Ballard also portrays the experiences of those northern African-Americans whose generations bridged the gap from the legacy of slavery to the breakdown of the segregated system in the 1950s and 1960s while revealing the crucial role that individuals like civil rights leader Paul Robeson, Olympic athletes Jesse Owens and Long John Woodruff, and scholar Alain Locke played in inspiring the hopes of an oppressed and downtrodden race. A memoir filled with entertaining anecdotes and insightful reflection, Breaching Jericho’s Walls offers Ballard’s compelling personal story and reveals how, brick by brick, African Americans built the road that led to the election of President Obama in 2008.

Breaching Jericho's Walls: A Twentieth-Century African American Life

Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press

Review\n"In less sure hands, Mr. Ballard's venture into fiction could have become a wooden treatise on race relations; instead, he has made his points much more effectively by breathing life into men and woman who are black, white, and all shades between. . . . With Where I'm Bound, Mr. Ballard skillfully has shown how to blend research and imagination without doing violence to history."--Ernest B. Furgurson, The Washington Times\n"A rousing Civil War novel . . . in clear, strong prose, Ballard gives us a searching look at the immense efforts to end slavery undertaken by the African-American men who fought with the Union army, knowing that their cause gave the war true meaning."--William S. McFeely, The Washington Post\n"Where I'm Bound offers a perceptive look at the tragedy of American slavery, the stoic perseverance and thirst for freedom not without occasional treachery to their own kind of the enslaved, for the blind racism and ruthless cruelty not altogether void of compassion for their chattels of the enslaver. Here's hoping Professor Ballard will see fit to write us a sequel, following the war hero Joe Duckett through the years of Reconstruction in Mississippi."--Mark Dunkelman, Providence Journal-Bulletin\n"Well-researched and solidly written debut novel . . . swiftly paced and filled with vivid incidents . . . the narrative is further distinguished by crisp, credible dialogue and scrupulously fair and fascinating portrayals of the wide spectrum of relationships--many of them genuinely loving ones--between embattled, indignant Southerners and 'their' blacks. And you won't soon forget the haunting final scene. One wishes Ballard Godspeed in this wisely chosen new career. This is a fine beginning to it."--Kirkus Reviews\n"The important story of black soldiers in the Union army has finally found a writer of historical fiction equal to the occasion. Allen Ballard's Where I'm Bound weaves together those experiences of former slave Sergeant Joe Duckett of the 3rd U.S. Colored Cavalry with those of his family members left behind in slavery. As the novel moves toward its dramatic and moving climax, the reader learns a great deal about the civil war within the Civil War along the rivers and bayous of Mississippi and Louisiana. A good read for anyone interested in the Civil War and the history of African-Americans."--James M. McPherson, Professor of History, Princeton University, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era\nFROM LIBRARY JOURNAL\n". . . a well-told narrative of life in all social strata of Louisiana and Mississippi after the fall of Vicksburg, with detailed descriptions of such phenomena as the refugee camps . . . a compelling story. Recommended for larger public libraries."--DAnn M. Fleury, Tampa-Hillsborough Cty. P.L., FL Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\nFrom PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n". . . this is a powerful novel about a soldier fighting in a war that would determine his personal destiny and that of a young nation." --Agent, Owen Laster. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\nFROM SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL\n"Adult/High School--An engrossing fictional account of the important role of African-American soldiers in the Civil War. . . . The historical facts are presented in a compelling way, the characters are vivid, and the battle scenes are alive with tension and action. Readers are kept in touch with the complex emotions and thought processes of a wide range of characters, both male and female, black and white, as the story unfolds. . . . a perfect read for students who are studying the Civil War." --Joyce Fay Fletcher, Prince William County Library System, VA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\nFROM BOOKLIST\n". . . a stirring novel extolling the lon

Where I'm Bound: A Civil War Novel

First Steps Publishing

Review\nFROM LIBRARY JOURNAL\n". . . a well-told narrative of life in all social strata of Louisiana and Mississippi after the fall of Vicksburg, with detailed descriptions of such phenomena as the refugee camps . . . a compelling story. Recommended for larger public libraries."--DAnn M. Fleury, Tampa-Hillsborough Cty. P.L., FL Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\nFrom PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\n". . . this is a powerful novel about a soldier fighting in a war that would determine his personal destiny and that of a young nation." --Agent, Owen Laster. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\nFROM SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL\n"Adult/High School--An engrossing fictional account of the important role of African-American soldiers in the Civil War. . . . The historical facts are presented in a compelling way, the characters are vivid, and the battle scenes are alive with tension and action. Readers are kept in touch with the complex emotions and thought processes of a wide range of characters, both male and female, black and white, as the story unfolds. . . . a perfect read for students who are studying the Civil War." --Joyce Fay Fletcher, Prince William County Library System, VA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\nFROM BOOKLIST\n". . . a stirring novel extolling the long-neglected contributions and heroics of black soldiers during the Civil War. . . . A complex, passionate portrait of an African American patriot, this rousing historical adventure compares well with the Black Sabre Chronicles, Tom Willard's serial tribute to black military men. --Margaret Flanagan Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n"In less sure hands, Mr. Ballard's venture into fiction could have become a wooden treatise on race relations; instead, he has made his points much more effectively by breathing life into men and woman who are black, white, and all shades between. . . . With Where I'm Bound, Mr. Ballard skillfully has shown how to blend research and imagination without doing violence to history."--Ernest B. Furgurson, The Washington Times\n"A rousing Civil War novel . . . in clear, strong prose, Ballard gives us a searching look at the immense efforts to end slavery undertaken by the African-American men who fought with the Union army, knowing that their cause gave the war true meaning."--William S. McFeely, The Washington Post\n"Where I'm Bound offers a perceptive look at the tragedy of American slavery, the stoic perseverance and thirst for freedom not without occasional treachery to their own kind of the enslaved, for the blind racism and ruthless cruelty not altogether void of compassion for their chattels of the enslaver. Here's hoping Professor Ballard will see fit to write us a sequel, following the war hero Joe Duckett through the years of Reconstruction in Mississippi."--Mark Dunkelman, Providence Journal-Bulletin\n"Well-researched and solidly written debut novel . . . swiftly paced and filled with vivid incidents . . . the narrative is further distinguished by crisp, credible dialogue and scrupulously fair and fascinating portrayals of the wide spectrum of relationships--many of them genuinely loving ones--between embattled, indignant Southerners and 'their' blacks. And you won't soon forget the haunting final scene. One wishes Ballard Godspeed in this wisely chosen new career. This is a fine beginning to it."--Kirkus Reviews\n"The important story of black soldiers in the Union army has finally found a writer of historical fiction equal to the occasion. Allen Ballard's Where I'm Bound weaves together those experiences of former slave Sergeant Joe Duckett of the 3rd U.S. Colored Cavalry with those of

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One More Day's Journey: The Story of a Family and a People

Where I'm Bound: A Novel

Where I'm Bound: A Novel

One more day's journey: The making of Black Philadelphia (ISHI publications)

Breaching Jericho's Walls: A Twentieth-Century African American Life (Excelsior Editions)

Breaching Jericho's Walls: A Twentieth-Century African American Life

Where I'm Bound: A Civil War Novel

Where I'm Bound: A Civil War Novel (Hardcover w/ Dustjacket)