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The Ditchdigger’s Daughters: A Black Family’s Astonishing Success Story
$16.95 Read moreAs resonant now as it ever was, this inspiring portrait by a loving daughter of a father whose pervasive common sense, folk wisdom, and untutored but right-on insights gave his children their road map… [more below]
- Author: Thornton, Yvonne S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1496739191
- Language: English
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February 1965: The Final Speeches
$17.00 Read moreGathers speeches Malcolm X made during the last three weeks of his life.
- Series: Studies. Southwest Asia Series; 89
- Author: Malcolm X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 331
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0873487494
- Language: English
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Strength in What Remains
$18.00 Read moreNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
Los Angeles Times – San Francisco Chronicle –Chicago Tribune – The Christian Science Monitor – Publishers Weekly- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0812977610
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
$7.95 Read moreThe powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition
“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0300087012
- Language: English
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
$9.95 Add to cart“How It Feels To Be Colored Me” by Florida native Zora Neale Hurston was originally published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece about her own color, Hurston reflects on… [more below]
- Series: American Roots
- Author: Hurston, Zora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1429096179
- Language: English
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
$17.00 Add to cartWritten in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale’s during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely be… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Seacole, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0140439021
- Language: English
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Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Williams, Michael Vinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: August 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1557286469
- Language: English
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Malcolm X: The Last Speeches
$12.00 Add to cart“Any kind of movement for freedom of Black people based solely within the confines of America is absolutely doomed to fail. “Speeches and interviews from the last two years of his life.
- Series: Malcolm X Speeches & Writings
- Author: Malcolm X
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0873485432
- Language: English
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Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Family Values
$15.95 Add to cartJerry Apps details the virtues and hardships of rural living.
“Do your chores without complaining. Show up on time. Do every job well. Always try to do better. Never stop learning. Next year will be- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0870208632
- Language: English
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Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana
$25.00 Read moreIn Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace t… [more below]
- Author: LeJeune, Keagan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1496850335
- Language: English
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Negroland: A Memoir
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural c… [more below]
- Author: Jefferson, Margo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0307473430
- Language: English
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The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City
$30.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction
From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known- Author: Roberts, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 162040978X
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Written by Himself
$14.95 Add to cartA new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis.
A masterpiece of African American literature, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative is the powerful story of an
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0872865274
- Language: English
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Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line
$20.95 Add to cartGrowing up white in Washington state, Barbara’s dad never told her anything about his family-except that his mother was “crazy.” Ten years after his death, she learned his sister was living in Hawai’i
- Author: Hilyer, S. Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218319434
- Language: English
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All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
$17.00 Read moreNate Shaw’s father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of fort… [more below]
- Author: Rosengarten, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0525562850
- Language: English
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Days Gone By: Aiken, Texas and the Outskirts
$35.95 Add to cartTake a step back in time to a small community in Texas called Aiken. Learn about her citizens through the eyes of their neighbors and families. As the narratives come together and expand, nearby commu… [more below]
- Author: Adkison, Pamila Hooper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0578276585
- Language: English
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
$21.99 Add to cartFrom National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1476773165
- Language: English
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A Lie Will Suffice: A DiGiovanni Family History
$23.95 Add to cartIn 1893 Western Sicily, Gaetano DiGiovanni, twenty-five years old, foresees a day when he abandons his turbulent, hard-scrabble life in the Palermo Province hinterlands for the promise of America. His
- Author: Wilkinson, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639856625
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
$12.95 Add to cart“An extraordinary book . . . invitingly written and brisk.” -Chicago Tribune
“Perhaps no one has ever told the tale [of Robinson’s arrival in the major leagues] so well as [Simon] does in this extende- Series: Turning Points in History #16
- Author: Simon, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0470170417
- Language: English
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Voice in the Night: The True Story of a Man and the Miracles That Are Changing Africa
$17.99 Add to cartAstonishing True Story of the Miracles That Are Changing Africa
Born into a long line of witch doctors, Surprise (“Surpresa”) Sithole was destined for a life of fear, oppression, and poverty in the jun… [more below]
- Author: Pastor Surprise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0800795237
- Language: English
