African American & Black
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The Radical King
$19.00 Add to cartA revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X
“The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle takin- Series: King Legacy #11
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0807034525
- Language: English
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
$19.99 Add to cartWith a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition.
In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in form- Author: McGill, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0306829673
- Language: English
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Bending Toward Justice
$21.00 Add to cartThe story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones’ prosecution of the last living bombers.
On September 15,- Author: Jones, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250353815
- Language: English
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How Black History Can Save Your Life: From the Talk to George Floyd, Everything You Need to Know to Deescalate a Racist Situation
$19.99 Add to cartBlack History’s Power to Combat Racism
How Black History Can Save Your Life by Ernest Crim III, a hate crime survivor and Anti-Racist Educator, is an essential guide for anyone seeking to combat interp
- Author: Crim, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1684817323
- Language: English
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The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
$30.00 Add to cartThe long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations
Wealth is central to the American pursuit- Author: Schermerhorn, Calvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 030025895X
- 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
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1250378087
- Language: English
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The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
$16.95 Add to cartEyewitness statements compiled by a woman who survived the Tulsa race massacre of 1921
- Author: Parrish, Mary E. Jones
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 159534943X
- Language: English
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Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy
$35.00 Add to cartThe enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South
Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it- Author: Black, Derek W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272820
- Language: English
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
$21.99 Add to cartThere have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic “white working class,” a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very exis
- Author: Kelley, Blair LM
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095571
- Language: English
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The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans
$22.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question.
What does it mean to be an American? The story of t- Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0190915196
- Language: English
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A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
$14.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for … [more below]
- Author: Audre Lorde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890961310
- Language: English
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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
$24.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095644
- Language: English
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The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
$35.00 Add to cartNational Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis’s own family history that shifts our understanding of the larger American story
Sitting beneath a- Author: Lewis, David Levering
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1984879901
- Language: English
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Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
$27.95 Add to cartAn acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them
While the Thirteenth Amend- Author: Berry, Mary Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 807007838
- Language: English
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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
$29.99 Add to cartIn the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad f
- Author: Edwards, Justene Hill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073853
- Language: English
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Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life
$27.95 Add to cartA new way of seeing Black history–the sweeping story of how American cities as we know them developed from the vision, aspirations, and actions of the Black poor.
Building the Black City shows how Af- Author: Trotter, Joe William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0520344413
- Language: English
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The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cartA prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America–ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves
“A spectacular achieveme
- Author: Forret, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978865
- Language: English
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In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World
$39.95 Read moreExplore the modern-day impact of slavery and colonialism in this panoramic Black history for anti-racist readers of 1619 Project and Caste.
The companion book to a groundbreaking exhibition on African- Author: Nat’l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1588347796
- Language: English
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Debunking the Yule Log Myth: The Disturbing History of a Plantation Legend
$42.75 Add to cartA powerful new book that corrects a false myth in African American history that Kirkus Reviews calls “a thoughtful antidote to white Southern propaganda.”
According to an oft repeated legend, during C- Author: May, Robert E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798881801786
- Language: English
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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
$29.99 Add to cartDrawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during sla… [more below]
- Author: Giesberg, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1982174323
- Language: English
