African American & Black
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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
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
$29.00 Add to cartIn this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country–revealing the fascinating
- Author: McGill, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 306829665
- Language: English
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
$24.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix documentary
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-r- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1645030393
- Language: English
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital
$34.95 Add to cartMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s ex… [more below]
- Author: Asch, Chris Myers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1469654725
- Language: English
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Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street
$0.00 Read moreA multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrifi
- Author: Luckerson, Victor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593134370
- Language: English
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When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era
$30.00 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the
- Author: Ramsey, Donovan X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0525511806
- Language: English
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On Juneteenth
$15.95 Add to cartWeaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth,
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 04, 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498835
- Language: English
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Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals
$27.99 Add to cartThis amazing true story of America’s first Black generals, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airmen, is “the book Blac
- Author: Melville, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668005131
- Language: English
