Civil Rights
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John Lewis: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages… [more below]
- Author: Greenberg, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1982142995
- Language: English
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An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the Co-Founder of the #BlackLivesMatter, a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to being a modern-day abolitionist
In An Abolitionist’s Handbook, New York Times bestselling author, artist,- Author: Cullors, Patrisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1250775213
- Language: English
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Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment
$29.00 Add to cartA powerful debunking of First Amendment orthodoxy that critiques “reckless speech,” which endangers vulnerable groups, and elevates “fearless speech,” which seeks to advance equality and democracy.
F- Author: Franks, Mary Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1645030539
- Language: English
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Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, Covid-19 and the War Against the Human
$19.99 Read moreThe Bodies of Others is about how we came to the harrowing civilizational crossroads at which we find ourselves – engaged in a war against vast impersonal forces with limitless power over our lives an… [more below]
- Author: Wolf, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1951934423
- Language: English
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Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond
$26.99 Read moreMemories and insights of a lifetime fighting for Black freedom and social justice
Millicent E. Brown’s family home at 270 Ashley Avenue in Charleston, South Carolina, was a center of civil rights acti
- Author: Brown, Millicent E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 164336491X
- Language: English
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The Crimson and Gold: Football and Integration in Athens, Georgia
$25.95 Add to cartThe Crimson and Gold is a comprehensive narrative detailing the struggle for integration in Athens, Georgia, in the context of highly competitive football as experienced by athletes, their fellow stud
- Author: Clegg, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820366986
- Language: English
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When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia’s Capital City
$35.95 Add to cartOur nation’s first elected Black governor, L. Douglas Wilder, returned to public service in 2005 as the first popularly elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in sixty years. Despite his landslide elect
- Author: Norman, Linwood
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1962416216
- Language: English
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Freedom: An Unruly History
$22.95 Add to cartWinner of the PROSE Award
“Ambitious and impressive…At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more i
An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year- Author: de Dijn, Annelien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0674278631
- Language: English
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Necessary Illusions
$19.99 Add to cartIn his national bestselling 1988 CBC Massey Lectures, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subj… [more below]
- Series: Massey Lectures
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 02 1995
- ISBN10: 0887845746
- Language: English
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Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
$18.99 Read moreSusan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass chat over tea about their efforts to win rights for women and African Americans.
Some people had rights, while others had none.Why shouldn’t they have them, too?… [more below]
- Author: Robbins, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 545399963
- Language: English
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Stella by Starlight
$19.99 Read moreSharon M. Draper presents “storytelling at its finest” (School Library Journal, starred review) in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era novel about a young girl who must learn to be brave in… [more below]
- Author: Draper, Sharon M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1442494972
- Language: English
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Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties
$32.99 Add to cartFrom the speechwriter and top adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson: A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics.
Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 19- Author: Goodwin, Richard N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 828
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1497676576
- Language: English
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Layers of Truth: A Novel Set During the Turbulent 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
$24.95 Add to cartIn the spring of 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is recruiting white college students to teach in Freedom Schools and encourage Blacks to register to vote in the racial hotb
- Author: Turner, Rosalie T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1632935376
- Language: English
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The Terror Factory: Tenth Anniversary Edition
$18.95 Read more“Compelling, shocking, and gritty with intrigue.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A real eye-opener that questions how well the country’s security is being protected.”–Kirkus (starred review)
“I
- Author: Aaronson, Trevor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1632461404
- Language: English
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Manimal Woe
$21.00 Add to cartFanny Howe’s Manimal Woe maps the intersection between history and family as few books have. Through poetry, prose, and primary sources, Howe invites us on a journey with the spirit of her father, Civ
- Author: Howe, Fanny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1734641657
- Language: English
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We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State
$21.99 Add to cartNamed a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post
As heard on NPR’s Fresh Air, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look, ba
- Author: Strittmatter, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0063027305
- Language: English
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Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice
$24.95 Add to cart2022 High Plains Book Award Winner for First Book
2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List
2022 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Culture
2022 IPPY Gold Medal in Environment/Ecology
2022… [more below]- Author: Todrys, Katherine Wiltenburg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496222660
- Language: English
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Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality
$28.00 Add to cartNancy Leong reveals how powerful people and institutions use diversity to their own advantage and how the rest of us can respond–and do better.
Why do people accused of racism defend themselves by po
- Author: Leong, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1503610136
- Language: English
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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
$17.99 Read moreNew attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slaver
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 132407521X
- Language: English
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Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
$31.67 Add to cart“A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it … [more below]
- Author: Rauch, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 23 2014
- ISBN10: 022614593X
- Language: English
