ALLEN B. BALLARD | professor, author and musician

Breaching Jericho's Walls
“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

Carried by Six
The leader of an anti-violence group stumbles upon a crime scene, and unknowingly kills the brother of a powerful but imprisoned drug dealer.

Where I'm Bound
"The important story of black soldiers in the Union army has finally found a writer of historical fiction equal to the occasion."

One More Day’s Journey: The Story
of a Family and a People
Chronicles the movement of Blacks from South Carolina to Philadelphia during the Great Migration, 1917-1940.

The Education of Black Folk: The Afro-American Struggle for Knowledge in
White America
A short history of the education of African-Americans in the United States.