African American & Black
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Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles
$23.99 Add to cartThe Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage.
Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest of slavery, the slave ship Wanderer landed on Jekyll Is
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Roberts, Amy Lotson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1467141186
- Language: English
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion
$17.99 Add to cart“A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America’s history.” —New York Times
The definitive account of the most infamous slave rebellion in history and the af
- Author: Oates, Stephen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0062656554
- Language: English
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Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862
$39.95 Add to cartAccording to an Akan proverb, “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.” This belief underlies historian Amy Tanner Thiriot’s work in Slavery in Zion, which combines genealogical … [more below]
- Author: Thiriot, Amy Tanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1647690854
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
$32.00 Add to cartThe inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs
In The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestsell
- Author: Green, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675630
- Language: English
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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
$23.95 Read moreThis entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs–many never before seen–as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by Afri… [more below]
- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: September 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1682752267
- Language: English
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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
$29.99 Read moreThe companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021
With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric
- Author: Conwill, Kinshasha Holman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0063160641
- Language: English
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Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
$17.99 Read moreNAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist
2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree
The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit–a blend of memoir, l
- Author: Boyd, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346636
- Language: English
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The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City’s Search for Justice
$18.00 Add to cartHousatonic Book Award Winner
Longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and Stowe Prize
One of The New York Times’ “11 New- Author: Ellsworth, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0593182995
- Language: English
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We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality
$24.95 Add to cartIn this exceedingly timely book, Louis Moore looks at the history of Black activist athletes and the important role of the Black community in insisting that the concept of fair play should apply not o
- Series: Race and Sports
- Author: Moore, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0813153808
- Language: English
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
$20.00 Add to cartThis “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South–and their daring attempt to es… [more below]
- Author: Bell, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1501169440
- Language: English
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Reflections by Rosa Parks: The Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation
$16.99 Read moreOn December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of the social injustice. Yet, her simple
- Author: Parks, Rosa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0310367409
- Language: English
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
$4.99 Add to cartWhat to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a speech by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Frederick Douglass became a prominent orator and autobiograp
- Series: Mint Editions–Black Narratives
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: April 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1513290975
- Language: English
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Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music
$49.95 Add to cartThis major new title builds out of Musical Crossroads, one of the 12 permanent exhibitions at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, to present a vibrantly illustrated exploratio
- Author: Reece, Dwandalyn R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1911282875
- Language: English
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Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (a Pivotal Event in the History o
$27.95 Add to cartThe Story Behind an Unsung Event in the Civil Rights Movement
“Over eight days, eight students sparked change that defined their lives, changed an institution and fueled a movement that continues today
- Author: Allman Maye, Marilyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1642501603
- Language: English
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Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
$18.95 Read moreDriving While Black demonstrates that the car–the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility–has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the da
- Author: Sorin, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 29, 2020
- ISBN10: 163149869X
- Language: English
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
$18.99 Add to cart“An elegant and expansive history” (New York Times) of African American women’s pursuit of political power–and how it transformed America
In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Ma- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600258
- Language: English
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Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community
$19.95 Read moreBetween 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun’s plantation house stil
- Series: Humanities and Public Life
- Author: Thomas, Rhondda Robinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 02, 2020
- ISBN10: 1609387406
- Language: English
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
$12.95 Read moreOne of the most memorable speeches in American history, Frederick Douglass’s What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? is now available in an elegant hardcover edition. Douglass first delivered the fam… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1429095636
- Language: English
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The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey: From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop
$20.00 Add to cartWhen I navigate the currents of the soul, I find myself within my ancestral pool. I find myself swimming in their grief, and the longing during the great event and initiation called the Middle Passage
- Author: Bishop, Orland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 03 2017
- ISBN10: 158420964X
- Language: English
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Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
$18.99 Add to cartJoin award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.
For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place w
- Author: Hall, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063271974
- Language: English
