Topical/Black History
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River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans
$34.95 Add to cartIn the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration’s efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down… [more below]
- Author: Cahan, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0991541855
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$29.95 Add to cartSolomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly,
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0807101508
- Language: English
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Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America’s World War II Military
$40.99 Add to cartThe first comprehensive narrative of racism in America’s World War II military and the resistance to it.
America’s World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazi- Author: Guglielmo, Thomas A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0195342658
- Language: English
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
$44.00 Add to cartThis “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America–and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0316278742
- Language: English
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We Fought the Road
$19.95 Add to cartWe Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war
- Author: McClure, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1935347772
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Original Classic Edition): An American Slave
$12.95 Add to cartThis edition of the original classic work, includes an index that will enable you to easily search for the names, places and topics as you discover the brilliance and determination of this incredible … [more below]
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1722502266
- Language: English
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The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard: Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Committee
$21.95 Read moreHarvard’s searing and sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination.
In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships be- Author: Presidential Committee on the Legacy of
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0674292405
- Language: English
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Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana
$23.99 Read moreDust and Determination After the Civil War, emancipated slaves who didn’t want to pick cotton or operate an elevator headed west to find work and a new life. Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove … [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Williams, Mrs Nancy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153648
- Language: English
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Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History
$34.95 Add to cartJournalists began to call the Korean War “the Forgotten War” even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already neglected war is that of African Americans who served just … [more below]
- Author: Cline, David P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1469664534
- Language: English
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The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland
$19.99 Add to cart“Thompson-Hern ndez’s portrayal of Compton’s black cowboys broadens our perception of Compton’s young black residents, and connects the Compton Cowboys to the historical legacy of African Americans in
- Author: Thompson-Hernandez, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0062910612
- Language: English
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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
$26.00 Add to cartA narrative history of America’s deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings
After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers bel- Author: McWhirter, Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1250009065
- Language: English
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Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1785, an African American woman, Elizabeth, was sold to her fifth enslaver. She had no idea that Robert Townsend, a son of her first enslaver, would locate her and safeguard her child–nor that Rob
- Author: Bellerjeau, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1493076493
- Language: English
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Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
$22.95 Add to cartBeulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect, pioneers such as Edward P. McCabe championed the id… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0978915038
- Language: English
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Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering
$28.95 Add to cartAn activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan … [more below]
- Author: Freeney Harding, Rosemarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0822358794
- Language: English
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African American Religions, 1500-2000
$37.00 Add to cartThis book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and colonialism over several centuries to explain the rela… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Sylvester A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 438
- Publish Date: August 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0521157005
- Language: English
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The Town That Started the Civil War
$19.00 Add to cartBefore the War Between the States, there was the war between the U.S. government and Oberlin, Ohio. . . .
“A fascinating, gripping narrative.”–James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
On a- Author: Brandt, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: July 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0440503965
- 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 Souls of Black Folk
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a masterpiece of American literature, a foundational text of sociology, and a deeply personal answer to the question “What is it like to be a Black
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172817
- 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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Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
$18.99 Read moreBestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton brings to light the stories of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement, drawing on his unique perspective in the history of the fight for social justice
- Author: Sharpton, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1335449647
- Language: English
