Civil Rights
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Back Road to Progress: Documented Accounts of the Historical Civil Rights Movement in the United States and Its Impact on One Family’s Decisi
$15.95 Add to cartThrough the lens of a child and based on true events, Back Road to Progress is a historical documentation of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and its impact on one Black family’s decisio
- Author: McCoy Smith, C. Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: December 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Rikers: An Oral History
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people whose lives have
- Author: Rayman, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593134214
- Language: English
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Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
$19.95 Add to cartNew York Times Best Seller
Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced,
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee “Outstanding” Title- Author: Maraniss, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 1, 2016
- ISBN10: 0826520243
- Language: English
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Revealed: A Once-A-Week Reading to Understand Racism, Prejudice, and Bias
$14.95 Add to cartFrom the perspective of a Black woman, Copeland reveals lessons about history, the invisibility of racism, and the insidiousness of prejudice and bias, all in just a weekly five-minute read. Revealed … [more below]
- Author: Copeland, Tamara Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: November 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986085944
- Language: English
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Chicano! the History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
$26.95 Add to cartThis is the companion volume to the critically acclaimed, four-part documentary series of the same title, which is now available on video following its national airing on the Corporation for Public Br… [more below]
- Author: Rosales, F. Arturo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1558852018
- Language: English
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On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care
$19.00 Add to cartWhat exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States.
“A clear-eyed, exper- Author: Ray, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593446461
- Language: English
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
$18.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inc
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1635574285
- Language: English
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Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
$27.99 Add to cartAn uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author
When Mary Ann Shadd Cary–the first Black woman publisher in North Am
- Author: Bell, Janet Dewart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1620976285
- Language: English
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American Identity in Crisis: Notes from an Accidental Activist
$24.99 Add to cartA trailblazing activist’s passionate and incisive look at why she started a movement to ensure that 26 million Americans have access to the IDs they need to escape poverty and live healthy and product
- Author: Calvin, Kat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063273160
- Language: English
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Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
$19.99 Add to cart“A must read.”–Margaret Atwood
A vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today by the CEO of PEN America, Dare To Speak provides a pathway for promoting free expression whil
- Author: Nossel, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 6, 2021
- ISBN10: 0062966049
- Language: English
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Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
$17.00 Add to cart“Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share … [more below]
- Author: Hart, Carl L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1101981660
- Language: English
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
$30.00 Add to cartNamed one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly’ Slate’ Chronicle of Higher Education’ Literary Hub, Book Riot’ and Zora
A tenth-anniversary edition of the
- Author: Alexander, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975459
- Language: English
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The Psychology of Totalitarianism
$28.00 Read moreThe world is in the grips of mass formation–a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis–as we bear witness to loneliness, free-floating anxiety, and fear giving way to censorship, loss of privacy, and
- Author: Desmet, Mattias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1645021726
- Language: English
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Classic Supreme Court Cases
$16.00 Add to cartLandmark cases address the origins of judicial review, racial discrimination, civil rights and liberties, The 14th amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and federal … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Liberty #4
- Author: Brettschneider, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0143135139
- Language: English
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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.
What happens to a country that tells- Author: Oluo, Ijeoma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 9, 2021
- ISBN10: 158005952X
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$21.99 Add to cartWith knowledge, spirit, good humor, and passion, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. brings to life a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions speak to our most burning contemporary issues a… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Clayborne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0446676500
- Language: English
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Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
$14.95 Add to cart**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction**
To live in a body both fat and Black is to exi
Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing.- Author: Harrison, Da’shaun L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1623175976
- Language: English
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The Court at War: Fdr, His Justices, and the World They Made
$32.50 Read moreThe inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country–with consequences that endure today
By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presiden- Author: Sloan, Cliff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1541736486
- Language: English
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The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
$27.00 Read moreBCALA Literary Award Winner
The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled by the assassinated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr–and a daughter’s quest fo- Author: Seletzky, Leta McCollough
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1640094725
- Language: English
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What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
$29.99 Add to cartWhen a naked, mentally ill white man with an AR-15 killed four young adults of color at a Waffle House, Nashville-based physician and gun policy scholar Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl once again advocated for
- Author: Metzl, Jonathan M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 132405025X
- Language: English
