Topical/Black History
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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 Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans
$22.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question.
What does it mean to be an American? The story of t- Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0190915196
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
$40.00 Add to cart**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped sl- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1416590315
- Language: English
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Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina
$9.99 Add to cartLyrical, inspiring, and affecting text paired with bright, appealing illustrations make Ready to Fly perfect for aspiring ballerinas everywhere who are ready to leap and to spread their wings!
Ready to
- Author: Lyon, Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 006288879X
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman
$15.99 Add to cartPart of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad conductor who “never lost a single passenger.”
Little Harr- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #13
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1786032279
- Language: English
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Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist
$18.99 Add to cartPauli Murray was a trailblazer who spent her life fighting for civil rights and women’s rights. Writer, lawyer, activist, priest, Pauli was a champion for justice. Her extraordinary life is immortaliz… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Terry Catasús
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1499812515
- Language: English
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines
$24.00 Add to cartWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps–the last all-white branch of the U.S. military–was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African … [more below]
- Author: McLaurin, Melton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0807861766
- Language: English
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
$30.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY
Booklist #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: NPR, P- Author: Rembert, Winfred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1635576598
- Language: English
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A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
$14.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for … [more below]
- Author: Audre Lorde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890961310
- Language: English
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When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl’s Story of Virginia’s Lost Generation and the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Decision
$19.99 Add to cartA 2023 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Finalist
An awe-inspiring autobiographical picture book about a young African American girl who lived during the shutdown of public schools in Farmville, Virgin
- Author: Gladden, Yolanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0063011166
- Language: English
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Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race
$24.99 Add to cartIn Nature Knows No Color-Line, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist who believed that there were no scientifically evide
- Author: Rogers, J. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115736
- Language: English
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Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War
$53.33 Add to cartHow American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom
In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an Amer- Author: Clavin, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1479823244
- Language: English
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The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
$19.99 Add to cart“A must-purchase picture book biography of a figure sure to inspire awe and admiration among readers.”–School Library Journal (starred review)
Extraordinary illustrations and lyrical text present p
- Author: Mangal, Mélina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1512483753
- Language: English
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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
$22.99 Add to cartA New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller!
An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically–up to the present day–worked against racial justice. And a cal
- Author: Tisby, Jemar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0310113601
- Language: English
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
$40.00 Add to cartIn this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of f… [more below]
- Author: Fischer, David Hackett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1982145099
- Language: English
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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
$22.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE – From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call.
“In the spirit of Unbroken and- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0804176604
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition
$26.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, … [more below]
- Author: Leckie, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138408
- Language: English
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Run: Book One
$24.99 Add to cartFirst you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award-winning team behind March–Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell–this is the first book in their groundbreaking graphic n
- Author: Lewis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 141973069X
- Language: English
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Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
$32.00 Read moreThe New Yorker, Best Books of 2022
Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world’s richest and most glamorous en
Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022
Booklist, Best Books of 2022- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 154170066X
- Language: English
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Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence
$20.99 Add to cart“All men are born free and equal.”
Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren’t the only ones who believed that everyone had a ri- Author: Woelfle, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0761365893
- Language: English
