Topical/Black History
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The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The True Story of America’s First Black World Champion
$16.95 Read moreBorn in 1878, bicycle racer Marshall “Major” Taylor became the first Black sports star to become a global celebrity when he won the world cycling championship in 1899. Throughout his bike-racing caree… [more below]
- Series: 5-Minute Therapy
- Author: Lugo Phd Adonia E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1648411320
- Language: English
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Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider
$22.00 Add to cartA firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward—written by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s pioneers.
At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the origin- Author: Person, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 125083676X
- Language: English
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Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
$62.95 Add to cartA celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride
The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of th
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Smith, Jessie Carney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1578596882
- Language: English
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The Color of Compromise Study Guide: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
$14.99 Add to cartRacism is one of the most polarizing conversations in our world and in the church. But it’s a topic that the church can and must take part in.
In this twelve-session study (DVD/streaming video sold se
- Author: Tisby, Jemar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0310114837
- Language: English
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Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
$24.95 Add to cartFor many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under Jim Crow seg
- Author: Pilgrim, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1629631140
- Language: English
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Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Vermont
$21.99 Add to cartMany believe that support for the abolition of slavery was universally accepted in Vermont, but it was actually a fiercely divisive issue that rocked the Green Mountain State. In the midst of turbulen… [more below]
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Sherburne, Michelle Arnosky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1626190380
- Language: English
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Unexampled Courage
$18.00 Add to cart*The book that inspired the 2021 PBS American Experience documentary, The Blinding of Isaac Woodard.*
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How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America’s civil rights history.- Author: Gergel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1250251265
- Language: English
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KWANZAA A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture: Fact Book Second Edition 2022
$8.99 Add to cartMs. Tamu Chambers is a professor of sociology and ethnic studies. In her writing, she addresses social behavior, social and political institutions regarding ethical values from sociological and philos… [more below]
- Author: Chambers, Tamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: December 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1956691065
- Language: English
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Nigger: An Autobiography
$20.00 Add to cartComedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory’s million-copy-plus bestselling memoir–now in trade paperback for the first time.
“Powerful and ugly and beautiful…a moving story of a man who deeply- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0593086147
- Language: English
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Stokely: A Life
$21.99 Read moreFrom the author of The Sword and the Shield, this definitive biography of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael offers “an unflinching look at an unflinching man” (Daily Beast).
Stokely Carmich- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0465065589
- Language: English
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They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
$36.00 Add to cartA deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in A… [more below]
- Author: Lowery, Wesley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316312479
- Language: English
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Madison Park: A Place of Hope
$19.99 Add to cartWelcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determ
- Author: Motley, Eric L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0310356962
- Language: English
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I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography
$19.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial j- Author: Thompson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 125061936X
- Language: English
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White Men’s Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism
$34.99 Add to cartA searing–and sobering–account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans ‘in their place’ from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men … [more below]
- Author: Irons, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190914947
- Language: English
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Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality
$22.50 Add to cartA concise overview of 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity, from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Vi… [more below]
- Author: Sherry, Karen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1911282999
- Language: English
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Sittin’ in: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s
$45.00 Read moreA rare collection of more than 200 full-color and black-and-white souvenir photographs and memorabilia that bring to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, compiled by Grammy Award-
- Author: Gold, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0062914707
- Language: English
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Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition
$39.95 Add to cartHow W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in America
At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologi
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1942884532
- Language: English
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The Story of Motown
$17.95 Read more- In 2018, ITV Studios and Reelz will release a documentary about the Supremes on which Peter Benjaminson will appear
- Also in 2018, CNN will broadcast a four-part series about Detroit in 1963. Benjaminso
- Author: Benjaminson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 13, 2018
- ISBN10: 1947856235
- Language: English
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Sandals in the Snow: A True Story of One African Family’s Journey to Achieving the American Dream
$16.99 Add to cartRose and three young children walked onto American soil wearing Sandals in the Snow, an abrupt transition from Nigeria to New York. This fascinating memoir recounts the amazing journey of an African f
- Author: Ihedigbo, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1947247492
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson
$10.00 Add to cartThe year was 1947. A talented young minor-league baseball player was called up to the majors to join the Brooklyn Dodgers. But this was no ordinary man, nor any simple achievement. This was Jackie Rob
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Schuster, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1936846713
- Language: English
