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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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Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
$22.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive history of the vital role women—both black and white—played in the civil rights movement.
In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, credit finally goes where credit is due—- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0684850133
- Language: English
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Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
$8.99 Read moreIn Defiant, Wade Hudson, award-winning coeditor of The Talk and Recognize!, takes a critical look at the strides and struggles of the past in this revelatory and moving memoir about a young Black ma… [more below]
- Author: Hudson, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0593126386
- Language: English
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A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till
$18.99 Add to cartThe last surviving witness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with poignant recollections of Emmett as a boy, critical insights into the recent investigation, and powerful lessons for rac… [more below]
- Author: Parker, Wheeler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593134281
- Language: English
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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
$27.99 Read moreTwo unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them
In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and- Author: Cope, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1641604522
- Language: English
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Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
$17.99 Read moreAs the fight for equal rights continues, Defiant takes a critical look at the strides and struggles of the past in this revelatory and moving memoir about a young Black man growing up in the South dur… [more below]
- Author: Hudson, Wade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0593126351
- Language: English
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March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
$24.99 Add to cartIt was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr… [more below]
- Author: Jones, William P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0393349411
- Language: English
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A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
$9.99 Add to cartAs a new generation of activists demands an end to racism, A Place to Land reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the movement that it galvanized. Now available in paperback… [more below]
- Author: Wittenstein, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0823451135
- Language: English
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
$28.00 Add to cartIn Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account… [more below]
- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: November 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0671687425
- Language: English
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This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
$25.95 Add to cartVisiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self-defense,” King assured him. It was not the only wea… [more below]
- Author: Cobb, Charles E., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 04 2015
- ISBN10: 082236123X
- Language: English
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A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
$18.99 Add to cartA powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from t… [more below]- Author: Carson, Clayborne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0446678090
- Language: English
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Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
$16.95 Read moreIn the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americ… [more below]
- Author: Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Stokely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556526490
- Language: English
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Fannie Lou Hamer: The Courageous Woman Who Marched for Dignity
$14.99 Add to cartRead the true story of Fannie Lou Hamer, a Civil Rights activist who courageously stood up for the vulnerable and contended for the rights of unborn children.
Living in Mississippi, “Mother Hamer” left
- Series: Do Great Things for God
- Author: Ellis, K. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1784989436
- Language: English
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What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
$5.99 Add to cartRelive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history.
Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation- Series: What Was?
- Author: Smith, Sherri L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1524792306
- Language: English
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Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter
$21.99 Read moreAn enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights.
According to Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie- Author: Williams, Yohuru
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0374389950
- Language: English
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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
$19.99 Add to cartSeven years before Brown v. Board of Education, the Mendez family fought to end segregation in California schools. Discover their incredible story in Separate Is Never Equal, a picture book from award
- Author: Tonatiuh, Duncan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 06, 2014
- ISBN10: 1419710540
- Language: English
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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
$30.00 Read moreAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclea
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America.- Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0374601801
- Language: English
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I Have a Dream – 60th Anniversary Edition
$19.99 Read moreWith new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King
A beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0063376687
- Language: English
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I Have a Dream – Special Anniversary Edition: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
$16.99 Add to cart- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 29, 2003
- ISBN10: 0062505521
- Language: English
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Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”–Time
James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights- Author: Glaude, Eddie S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 0525575332
- Language: English
