Civil Rights
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The Nine O’Clock Whistle: Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina
$28.00 Add to cartBetween the years of 1963 and 1965, civil rights protests rocked rural communities like Enfield, a small North Carolina town where segregationist and white supremacist attitudes prevailed. Whites in E… [more below]
- Series: Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
- Author: Cofield, Willa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 355
- Publish Date: February 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1496852389
- Language: English
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The Volunteer: The Failure of the Death Penalty in America and One Inmate’s Quest to Die with Dignity
$29.99 Add to cartA riveting account of one death row inmate’s quest to die–and a fearless look at how America’s system of punishment has failed the public it claims to serve.
When Scott Dozier was sent to Nevada’s de- Author: Toboni, Gianna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1668033011
- Language: English
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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI
$20.00 Add to cartINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS (IRE) BOOK AWARD WINNER – The story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists–quiet, ordinary, hard… [more below]
- Author: Medsger, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0804173664
- Language: English
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The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
$16.00 Add to cartAn urgent, topic-by-topic guide to Project 2025, with everything you need to know about how the second Trump administration is remaking America–from a go-to authority at The Atlantic
When President D- Author: Graham, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America
$30.99 Add to cartPublished to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X’s influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, … [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1668033291
- Language: English
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Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It
$27.99 Add to cartFrom the creator of “a unified field theory of racism” (NPR’s Planet Money), a dollars-and-cents reckoning of the state of Black America and a new framework to close the power gap
Historically, Black- Author: Perry, Andre M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1250869714
- Language: English
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Civil Disobedience
$12.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Government, Thoreau’s classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentie… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1557094179
- Language: English
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Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy
$35.00 Add to cartThe enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South
Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it- Author: Black, Derek W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272820
- Language: English
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Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice
$18.99 Add to cartA riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” (The New York Times) Nobody Marc Lamont … [more below]
- Author: Hill, Marc Lamont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1982180404
- Language: English
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Moving the Chains: The Civil Rights Protest That Saved the Saints and Transformed New Orleans
$34.95 Add to cartWe remember the 1966 birth of the New Orleans Saints as a shady quid pro quo between the NFL commissioner and a Louisiana congressman. Moving the Chains is the untold story of the athlete protest that
- Author: Sapp, Erin Grayson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 080717792X
- Language: English
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
$23.99 Add to cartNow with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institu… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1476709513
- 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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Letters from Palestine: Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the Power of Nonviolence
$26.95 Add to cartMany books have dealt with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the Israeli perspective. However, few reflect the Palestinian point of view. Letters from Palestine offers an American audience a rare
- Author: Ring, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1604944161
- Language: English
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The Exceptional Negro: Racism, White Privilege and the Lie of Respectability Politics
$14.99 Add to cartLawyer. Mother. Elected Official. Target. Traci O’Neal was thrust into the national spotlight in 2017 when local threats grew into a national racist outcry after a former GOP Presidential candidate si
- Author: O’Neal, Traci D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: May 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1732031509
- Language: English
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To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care
$46.58 Add to cartAn incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care
When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Blac- Author: Harris, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0691219060
- Language: English
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I Ain’t Resisting: The City of Greensboro and the Killing of Marcus Smith
$20.00 Add to cartIn September of 2018, Marcus Deon Smith, a Black man who had committed no crime, died in the custody of the Greensboro Police Department. His death was eventually ruled a homicide.
Ian McDowell explor
- Author: McDowell, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1959104012
- Language: English
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When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellions and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation’s Capital
$33.82 Add to cartEchoing James Forman Jr.’s Locking Up Our Own, a riveting story of race, civil rights, and rebellion in Washington, DC
In April 1968, following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., a wave of uprising- Author: Sommers, Kyla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977478
- Language: English
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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
$17.99 Add to cartThe MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable
A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 20
- Author: Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977133
- Language: English
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Negroes with Guns
$9.99 Add to cartContains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense
- Author: F. Williams, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: June 11 2020
- ISBN10: 9339046323
- Language: English
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Y’All Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia
$22.00 Add to cartY’all Means All is a celebration of the weird and wonderful aspects of a troubled region in all of their manifest glory! This collection is a thought-provoking hoot and a holler of “we’re queer and we
- Author: McNeill, Z. Zane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639141
- Language: English
