Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
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To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
$17.95 Add to cartPriscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her pare
- Author: Emberton, Carole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050276
- Language: English
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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
$18.00 Add to cart“A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”–Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard … [more below]
- Author: Lanier, Carlotta Walls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0345511018
- Language: English
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Naturally Curly: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThe complexities of a racially divided culture are too numerous to count, and with one glance around the globe, it is easy to see why no one is immune to its effects. With so many stories, personal ex
- Author: Lasher, Kristi Sanders
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1632964848
- Language: English
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Gooseberries Have Thorns
$19.99 Add to cartGooseberries Have Thorns chronicles everyday experiences, relationships, and major events in the lives of Maggie’s ancestors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The narrative focuses primarily… [more below]
- Author: States, Margaret L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1039139825
- Language: English
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Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness
$17.99 Add to cartThis instant New York Times bestseller offers “a firsthand, eye-opening story of a prosecutor that exposes the devastating criminal punishment system” (Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning auth… [more below]
- Author: Coates, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1982173777
- Language: English
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The Quiet Trailblazer: My Journey as the First Black Graduate of the University of Georgia
$32.95 Add to cartThe Quiet Trailblazer recounts Mary Frances Early’s life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South. Early carefu
- Author: Early, Mary Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360813
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of White Injustice
$19.99 Add to cartWhen he published its third edition from London, Garvey described The Tragedy of White Injustice in these terms: “It must be remembered that this is not an attempt at poetry: it is just a peculiar sty
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 4167412799
- Language: English
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Tuskegee Airmen WWII Fighter Pilots: The Story of an Original Tuskegee Pilot, Lt. Col. Hiram E. Mann
$24.99 Read moreThis book honors the Tuskegee Airmen – African American pilots known
as the “Red Tails,” who never lost escorted bombers during World War
II. These decorated pilots overcame the prejudicial conclusion o
- Author: Coggins, Patrick C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: December 26, 2017
- ISBN10: 1948262754
- Language: English
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Generations: A Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartA moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa.
Buffalo, New York. A f- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375877
- Language: English
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The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock
$29.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1974, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock grew out of a magazine article coauthored by Jan Reid. His first book was a sensation in Texas. It portrayed an Austin-based live music exp… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0875657761
- Language: English
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Die Standing: From Black Panther Revolutionary to Global Diversity Consultant
$37.99 Add to cartHis image-holding a rifle on the steps of the Washington state capitol building, flanked by Black men gripping guns as law enforcement officers and others stand by-is one of the most iconic photograph… [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Elmer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 470
- Publish Date: June 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1956879390
- Language: English
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Lost & Found: Finding The Power In Your Voice
$29.95 Add to cartGrowing up in the 1980s, in the heart of New York City’s downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for Pyeng Threadgill-as expressed t
- Author: Threadgill, Pyeng
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1956989315
- Language: English
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To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
$18.00 Add to cartBorn to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women’s rights advocate, and journalist. Wells’s refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be la
- Author: Bay, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 080901646X
- Language: English
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Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine
$45.00 Add to cartReared in Houston (Freedmen’s Town), Texas, Emmett J. Scott was a journalist, newspaper editor, government official, author, and chief of staff, adviser, and ghostwriter to Booker T. Washington. Calle… [more below]
- Series: Afro-Texans
- Author: Dailey, Maceo C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 168283123X
- Language: English
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A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution
$26.95 Add to cart2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass’s fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course of American hi- Author: Root, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1640122354
- Language: English
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The Jew a Negro: Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint
$24.99 Add to cart“The most the startling book of the year…its research is unanswerable.” -Literary Digest
“The Jew a Negro” has been analyzed by numerous modern authors studying race relations in earlier times in Am
- Author: Abernethy, Ph. D. Arthur Talmage
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: April 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1638231796
- Language: English
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Daddy’s House: A Daughter’s Memoir of Setbacks, Triumphs & Rising Above Her Roots
$29.99 Add to cartA raw and poignant memoir of a daughter’s journey from a difficult upbringing in rural Alabama to a fulfilling life as a wife and mother with a successful career far beyond the limitations of her upbr
- Author: Mills, Mildred J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: December 03 2023
- ISBN10: 196175729X
- Language: English
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name from the city… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Wes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0385528191
- Language: English
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Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
$16.99 Add to cartA People Pick
“One of the year’s must-reads.” -ELLE
” A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection.” -GLAMOUR
“Essential, vital, and urgent.” -HARPER’S BAZAAR
In the vein of Roxane
- Author: Hunt, Kenya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0062987666
- Language: English
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
$35.00 Add to cartLes Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X–all liv
- Author: Payne, Les
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1631491660
- Language: English
