Topical/Black History
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The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
$19.99 Add to cartA noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today’s social justice struggles
Speaking to his supporters- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0465044166
- Language: English
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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
$18.00 Add to cart“A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”–Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard … [more below]
- Author: Lanier, Carlotta Walls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0345511018
- Language: English
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
$25.99 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history–Harriet Tubman–a heroine whose fearles… [more below]
- Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1982139595
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson: An Integrated Life
$29.93 Add to cartJ. Christopher Schutz reveals the real Jackie Robinson, as a more defiant, combative spirit than simply the “turn the other cheek” compliant “credit to his race.” Examining this key figure at the cros… [more below]
- Series: Library of African American Biography
- Author: Schutz, J. Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1538110202
- Language: English
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Ballast
$18.00 Read moreA poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery.
In 1841, the only successful, large-scale … [more below]- Author: Baker, Quenton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599026
- Language: English
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Funkiest Man Alive: Rufus Thomas and Memphis Soul
$63.33 Add to cartRufus Thomas may not be a household name, but he is widely regarded as the patriarch of Memphis R&B, and his music influenced three generations. His first singles in the early 1950s were recorded as b… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Ruddick, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1496838408
- Language: English
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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book Award
In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city’s soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and- Author: Wells, Jonathan Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1645030334
- Language: English
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The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas
$21.99 Add to cartIn late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and the Percilla-Augusta region of neighboring Houston County. T… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Bills, E. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1626193525
- Language: English
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Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
$18.99 Add to cartThe True Story of Coretta Scott King Told Fully for the First Time
Named a Washington Post Book to Read – A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A USA Today “New and Noteworthy” Pick – A Read- Author: King, Coretta Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1250159938
- Language: English
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Buck Studies
$15.95 Add to cart“[Douglas Kearney] is at the other end of the century, using a multicultural voice inflected with the concerns of what it means to be a young black man at this time and at this place.”–The Los Angele
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0986437379
- Language: English
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An American Beach for African Americans
$19.95 Add to cart“I am excited by this book. It is a great addition to the woefully scant scholarly materials that deal with the African American contribution to Florida history and culture. . . . Original and signifi
- Author: Phelts, Marsha Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0813035082
- Language: English
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African American Women of the Old West
$26.83 Add to cartThe brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male–and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold until now. … [more below]
- Author: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0762739002
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$11.95 Add to cart‘It was said to me, “Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; ’tis not best that you seem too learned.”‘
Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiograp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198820712
- Language: English
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America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
$31.18 Add to cartOne of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews
A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United
“A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.”–Publishers Weekly- Author: Lindsey, Treva B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 520384490
- Language: English
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The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America
$18.95 Add to cartHow the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America’s racial divide
On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Unio- Author: Buccola, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210772
- Language: English
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The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang
$19.99 Read moreThis expos investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant gang accused of terroristic intentions. Interwoven int… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Natalie Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1613744919
- Language: English
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The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas
$31.99 Add to cartIn late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and the Percilla-Augusta region of neighboring Houston County. T… [more below]
- Author: Bills, E. R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 154020958X
- Language: English
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I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader
$21.95 Add to cartI Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader is a timely and essential collection of the many works of Professor Gerald Horne–a historian who has made an indelible impact on the study of US and international hi
- Author: Horne, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1682193632
- Language: English
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In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
$19.99 Add to cartHost of PBS’s Finding Your Roots and famed Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examines African-American immigration and ancestry through the lineage of famous Black Americans.
Unlike most white- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1510778853
- Language: English
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Through Her Eyes
$24.99 Add to cartDr. Arthur Vaughn shares the story of his family’s journey from enslavement all the way through the Great Migration-the period when 6 million formerly-enslaved people journeyed North from the Antebell
- Author: Vaughn, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988580607
- Language: English
