African American & Black
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When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World
$18.99 Add to cartThe triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre–and the world–forever.
“This musical introduced Black excellence to the Great White Way. Broadway was forever c
- Author: Gaines, Caseen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1728259398
- Language: English
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
$19.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0306926091
- Language: English
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Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956
$29.95 Add to cartThe Gullah culture, though borne of isolation and slavery, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today, and nowhere more prominently than on Hilton Head Island, SC. O… [more below]
- Author: Barnwell, Thomas C., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1949467074
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight
$50.00 Read moreFrom award-winning photojournalist Richard Frishman comes a collection of photographs documenting America’s history of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism hidden in plain sight, accompanied
- Author: Frishman, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250831687
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
$35.00 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book, Overground Railroad is the first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists used for decades when trav… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Candacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1419738178
- Language: English
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Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
$99.75 Add to cartFrom the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge st… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Nikki M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: July 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 1009276840
- Language: English
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space–a powerful, revel
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0062677284
- Language: English
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Back Road to Progress: Documented Accounts of the Historical Civil Rights Movement in the United States and Its Impact on One Family’s Decisi
$15.95 Add to cartThrough the lens of a child and based on true events, Back Road to Progress is a historical documentation of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and its impact on one Black family’s decisio
- Author: McCoy Smith, C. Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: December 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
$21.99 Add to cartA searing and “magisterial” (Cornel West, New York Times-bestselling author of Democracy Matters) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619587
- Language: English
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Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
$29.99 Read moreA timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell’s Faces at the Bottom of the Well, one of the country’s foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and vital new framework going beyond t
- Author: Hunter, Marcus Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063004720
- Language: English
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
$30.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0306926075
- Language: English
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Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football
$32.00 Read moreAn acclaimed sportswriter offers an inside look at the Black quarterbacks whose skill and grit transformed the NFL
In Rocket Men, John Eisenberg offers the definitive history of Black quarterbacks in
- Author: Eisenberg, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600401
- Language: English
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You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
$30.00 Add to cartFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign–ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.
It- Author: Kix, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1250807697
- Language: English
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Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
$29.99 Read moreAn evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor’s Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their desce
- Author: Tabor, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250766540
- Language: English
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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
$30.00 Read moreLonglisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
“Powerful and deeply moving.”–Los Angeles Times * Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History’s Stone Book Award * National Council on- Author: Williams, Kidada E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1635576636
- Language: English
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
$30.00 Add to cartThis “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America–and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316492930
- Language: English
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Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health
$29.99 Read moreA compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it–until now
For more than a century, Dr. J. Mar- Author: Hallman, J. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250868467
- Language: English
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
$16.95 Add to cart“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.” -Combahee River Collective Statement
- Author: Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1608468550
- Language: English
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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
$35.00 Add to cartThe familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When l
- Author: Penningroth, Dylan C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093102
- Language: English
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
$24.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – TIME Magazine‘s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 – New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 – NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 – Economist Book of the Year – SELF.com’
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 08, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062748203
- Language: English
