African Americans - Civil rights
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Notes of a Native Son
$16.00 Add to cart#26 on The Guardian’s list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem,- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006238
- Language: English
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$15.99 Add to cartCreated as a living memorial to the philosophies and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this essential volume includes more than 120 quotations from the greatest civil rights leader’s speeches, ser
- Series: Newmarket Words of
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 19 2001
- ISBN10: 155704483X
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Racial Inequality: With a New Preface
$21.00 Read more“Lifts and transforms the discourse on ‘race’ and racial justice to an entirely new level.”
“Intellectually rigorous and deeply thoughtful…An incisive, erudite book by a major thi
–Orlando Patterson- Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
- Author: Loury, Glenn C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0674260465
- Language: English
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Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
$22.95 Read moreThis latest edition in Triangle Square’s For Young People series is a gripping account of the summer that changed America.
In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student- Author: Watson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 164421010X
- Language: English
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
$24.00 Add to cartBoth an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white Amer… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0452282101
- Language: English
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (National Book Award Finalist)
$15.99 Add to cartAn astonishing World War II military story of civil rights from New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin.
A National Book Award Finalist
A YALSA Award for Excellence- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250073499
- Language: English
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Civil Wars
$16.95 Add to cartA meditation on the private and public fault lines which divide American society.
In Civil Wars, June Jordan’s battleground is the intersection of private and public reality, which she explores throug- Author: Jordan, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684814048
- Language: English
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The Betrayal of the Negro, from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson
$24.99 Add to cartBetween the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the end of World War I in 1918, African Americans experienced their nadir. The Betrayal of the Negro (originally published as The Negro in American Life a… [more below]
- Author: Logan, Rayford W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306807580
- Language: English
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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
$35.00 Add to cartRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes.
American taxation is unfair, an- Author: Kahrl, Andrew W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 24 2024
- ISBN10: 022673059X
- Language: English
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A Day I Ain’t Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi
$22.95 Add to cartThe Black people of Marks, Mississippi, and other rural southern towns were the backbone of the civil rights movement, yet their stories have too rarely been celebrated and are, for the most part, for
- Author: Bateman, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820363049
- Language: English
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
$19.99 Read more“History at its best–clear, intelligent, moving. Paula Giddings has written a book as priceless as its subject”–Toni Morrison
Acclaimed by writers Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou, Paula Gid
- Author: Giddings, Paula J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0688146503
- Language: English
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Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss
$22.95 Add to cartIn 1962, James Meredith famously desegregated the University of Mississippi (a.k.a. Ole Miss). As the first Black American admitted to the school, he demonstrated great courage amidst the subsequent p
- Author: Goudsouzian, Aram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: July 06 2022
- ISBN10: 168226212X
- Language: English
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Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America
$26.99 Read more“You’ll find hope in these pages. ” –Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life
* 2023 Kansas Notable Books Letters to Martin contains twelve meditations on contemporary political struggles for our oxygen- Author: Jelks, Randal Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1641606037
- 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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Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955
$33.00 Add to cartAs World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African-American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: April 21 2003
- ISBN10: 0521531586
- Language: English
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Race, Crime, and the Law
$22.00 Add to cartAn “admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book” (New York Times Book Review) in which “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race” (The Washington Post) takes on a high… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 31 1998
- ISBN10: 375701842
- Language: English
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I Have a Dream Yo Tengo Un Sueño (Spanish Edition)
$19.99 Read more- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063246880
- Language: Spanish
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Notes of a Native Son
$28.95 Add to cartIn an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documenta… [more below]
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006114
- Language: English
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Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
$17.99 Add to cartThis stunning picture book looks into the life of Georgia Gilmore, a hidden figure of history who played a critical role in the civil rights movement and used her passion for baking to help the Montgo… [more below]
- Author: Romito, Dee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1499807201
- Language: English
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The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now
$29.99 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landscape and policies that are impacting Black families and communities and offers solutions for a better t
- Author: Sellers, Bakari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 006308502X
- Language: English
