African American & Black
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
$18.95 Add to cartWhat began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defian
- Author: Hinton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092009
- Language: English
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
$20.99 Add to cartA brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s–“Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who love… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1501122428
- Language: English
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The Spirituals and the Blues – 50th Anniversary Edition
$20.00 Add to cart“The power of song in the struggle for Black survival–that is what the spirituals and the blues are about.” James H. Cone revolutionized American theology with the publication in 1969 and 1970 of his… [more below]
- Author: James, Cone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1626984816
- Language: English
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Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South
$21.99 Add to cartMen and women who carried the mantle of African healing and spirituality in the Mid-South were frequently accused and attacked for their misunderstood culture. The same healers and spiritual workers f… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Kail, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1467139890
- Language: English
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The Weeping Time
$25.00 Add to cartIn 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation… [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Anne C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1316643484
- Language: English
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African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence
$84.95 Add to cartCourage, resilience and triumph! Celebrating the African American experience, the extraordinary people, and their profound influence on American history!
African Americans helped build the United Stat
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Bracks, Lean’tin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1578598311
- Language: English
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Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
$21.95 Read moreTwenty Dollars and Change places Harriet Tubman’s life and legacy in a long tradition of resistance, illuminating the ongoing struggle to realize a democracy in which her emancipatory vision prevails.
- Author: Lusane, Clarence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868850
- Language: English
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Before the Mayflower; A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962
$20.99 Add to cartThe black experience in America–starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961–is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of A
- Author: Bennett, Lerone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: June 18 2020
- ISBN10: 3584749972
- Language: English
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A Story Untold
$19.95 Add to cartA Story Untold was born in a classroom in Clarke Central High School in 1971. An 18-year-old Michael Thurmond was a member of the first graduating class of the newly-consolidated Clarke Central, a mer
- Author: Thurmond, Michael L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1947309838
- Language: English
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
$24.99 Add to cart“Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-… [more below]
- Author: Shih, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585551
- Language: English
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Days of Fear: A Lynching in St. Petersburg
$17.95 Add to cartDays of Fear exposes the shocking story of a gruesome 1914 murder in St. Petersburg, Florida and the calculated lynching of the Black man accused. Who killed Frank Sherman with a shotgun blast inches
- Author: Wilson, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1940300738
- Language: English
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
$18.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities in early America that “reminds us of the cold calculus at the intersection of slavery and capitalism” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Searing, revelatory, and vita… [more below]- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0807067148
- Language: English
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and ins… [more below]
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1984854992
- Language: English
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
$27.95 Add to cartThe first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America
Beginning with pre-Rev- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Mays, Kyle T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0807011681
- Language: English
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Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
$21.95 Add to cart- Author: Cook Bell, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 110892672X
- Language: English
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Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams
$39.99 Add to cartThe powerful life story and photography of an esteemed Black photojournalist
Cecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights movement. Born and raised in Orangeburg
- Author: Brinson, Claudia Smith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1643364375
- Language: English
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Still Rising: Famous Black Quotations for the Twenty-First Century
$15.95 Add to cartAn inspiring collection of pithy, easy-to-recall one-liners and quotable short passages from historic and contemporary thought leaders throughout the African Diaspora.
Famous Black Quotations, first p
- Author: Bell, Janet Cheatham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1572843209
- Language: English
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The Duffy-Stith Family: From Arkansas Cotton Fields To Global Investments
$20.95 Add to cartThe Duffy-Stith Children Today- Employment Status and Where They Live
Mr. Spencer Lee Duffy- Retired Research Scientist from EPA- Beltsville, Maryland
Rev. Eliza Marie Duffy Bunzy, Associate Minister M
- Author: Duffy Johnson, Bernice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1684981549
- Language: English
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
$18.95 Add to cartJust as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain’s Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between black communities and Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Chatelain, Marcia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498703
- Language: English
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
$26.95 Add to cartThis beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, … [more below]
- Series: American Crossroads
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0520285638
- Language: English
