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Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
$18.99 Add to cartIn this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, b… [more below]
- Author: Beals, Melba Pattillo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0671866397
- Language: English
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White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing
$24.99 Add to cartAs seen on The Today Show “Important in helping us understand America’s complex racial history.”–Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Rac- Author: Lukasik, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1510724125
- Language: English
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The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
$18.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A remarkable story about the power of friendship. Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, the three doctors grew up in the streets of Ne- Author: Davis, Sampson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 157322989X
- Language: English
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The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartIn her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, i
- Author: Hayes, Ernestine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 029574572X
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$6.95 Add to cartThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlight- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0345478231
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
$9.94 Add to cart“I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539073
- Language: English
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
$32.50 Read moreFrom 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1476773157
- Language: English
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The Face: A Time Code
$12.99 Add to cart“Ruth Ozeki, a Zen Buddhist priest, sets herself the task of staring at her face in a mirror for three full, uninterrupted hours; her ruminations ripple out from personal and familial memories to wise
- Series: Face
- Author: Ozeki, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1632060523
- Language: English
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Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment: The Military Career of Charles Young
$21.95 Add to cart“A valuable read for anyone with an interest in the final years of the frontier Army, American imperialism, African-Americans in military service, and American military history in general.”–A.A. Nofi
- Author: Shellum, Brian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803213859
- Language: English
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
$18.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller, “A must-read for anyone who thinks ‘build a wall’ is the answer to anything.” —Esquire
For Francisco Cant?, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park range- Author: Cantú, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0735217734
- Language: English
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The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City
$30.00 Add to cartThe long-suppressed treatise on Dallas’ institutional and structural racism, from slavery through desegregation, with a new forward by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price.
- Author: Schutze, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1646050967
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$19.99 Add to cartA masterpiece of American literature, Frederick Douglass’ “Narrative” is a powerful story of an enslaved youth coming to social and moral consciousness by disobeying his owners and secretly teaching h
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961210
- Language: English
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Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend
$17.99 Add to cartMerging comprehensive research and grand storytelling, Mr. and Mrs. Prince reveals the true story of a remarkable pre-Civil War African-American family, as well as the challenges that faced African-Am
- Author: Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0060510749
- Language: English
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks about Life on Sapelo Island
$19.00 Add to cartEqual parts cultural history and memoir, God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man recounts a traditional way of life–that of the Geechee Indians of Sapelo Island– that is threatened by change, with stor… [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Cornelia Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0385493770
- Language: English
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Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family… [more below]
- Author: Ng, Fae Myenne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162215
- Language: English
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Apropos of Running
$27.00 Add to cartA world-class marathoner who completed all six of the Abbott World Marathon Majors! Based on Charles Moore’s experience running 20+ marathons between 2016- 2023, Apropos of Running is at once a celebr… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1955496080
- Language: English
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My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartIn this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth “surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties…James Baldwin, Maya Angel… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Jessica B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1501125923
- Language: English
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A Place to Stand
$18.00 Add to cartJimmy Santiago Baca’s harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to … [more below]
- Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 10, 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139086
- Language: English
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Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
$19.95 Add to cartNew York Times Best Seller
Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced,
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee “Outstanding” Title- Author: Maraniss, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 1, 2016
- ISBN10: 0826520243
- Language: English
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By Any Means Necessary
$15.00 Add to cartSpeeches tracing the evolution of Malcolm X’s views on political alliances, women’s rights, intermarriage, capitalism and socialism, and more.
- Series: Malcolm X Speeches & Writings
- Author: Malcolm X
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0873487540
- Language: English
