Topical/Black History
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Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery
$27.00 Add to cartWritten as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the m… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Essential Histories
- Author: Schermerhorn, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: August 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1107608589
- Language: English
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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
$32.95 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon’s enslaved workers, who left few written records but made up 90 perc
- Author: Thompson, Mary V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0813941849
- Language: English
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
$25.99 Add to cartAbsorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller.–Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book Review
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingle- Author: Lane, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0805089225
- Language: English
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You’re Likely Not a Racist: Answers for Curious White People
$25.00 Add to cartToday’s headlines often show Black and White Americans on extreme opposite sides of a painful racial divide. Many good-hearted people harbor unspoken, legitimate questions about race that they don’t k
- Author: Reed, Teresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0578955415
- Language: English
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Black: A Celebration of a Culture
$35.00 Add to cartOver 500 glorious black-and-white photographs celebrating black culture throughout American history, from Jesse Owens to Barry Bonds, Ella Fitzgerald to Halle Berry.
Tucked away in the dusty halls of- Author: Willis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1510760156
- Language: English
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Charley Patton: Expanded Edition
$12.95 Read moreThe Father of the Delta Blues, Charley Patton (1891-1934) was born and raised around Mississippi’s cotton plantations. During the 1920s, he was the first of the region’s great stars, performing for pa… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Music: Folk Songs
- Author: Fahey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 486843440
- Language: English
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A Gullah Guide to Charleston: Walking Through Black History
$15.99 Add to cartEnjoy three accessible walking tours and a bonus driving tour through places relevant to the rich and varied contributions of black Charlestonians.
Author Alphonso Brown, owner and operator of Gullah T
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Brown, Alphonso
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1596293926
- Language: English
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Birmingham Foot Soldiers: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement
$31.99 Add to cartReverends Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young and Fred Shuttlesworth are iconic names associated with the Birmingham campaign of the civil rights movement. Credit also is due to many local residents … [more below]
- Author: Patterson, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 154022239X
- Language: English
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Charleston’s Avery Center: From Education and Civil Rights to Preserving the African American Experience (Revised)
$37.99 Add to cartFor 140 years, Charleston s Avery Research Center has been a hub of African American education and study in the South Carolina Lowcountry. No other institution compares to Avery s scope and impact on … [more below]
- Author: Drago, Edmund L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: July 06 2006
- ISBN10: 1540203824
- Language: English
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The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
$40.50 Add to cartAn NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work–Non Fiction
James Beard award-winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1469647672
- Language: English
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Claiming Sunday: The Story of a Texas Slave Community
$29.95 Add to cartAn inspiring story of human souls who survived the dehumanizing system of slavery in the Old South, Claiming Sunday also provides important keys to comprehending modern racial relations in a more enl
- Author: Snider, Joleene Maddox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0875658253
- Language: English
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Saying It Loud: 1966–The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
$19.99 Add to cartMark Whitaker “writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet” (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identi… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1982114134
- Language: English
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Black Like Me
$24.95 Read moreOn October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own–he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discov… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, John Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0916727688
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
$12.95 Add to cart‘It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0198835329
- Language: English
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Representing Blackness: The Marcus Mosiah Garvey Multimedia Museum
$35.00 Add to cartDr Donna E. McFarlane Curator and Director of the Marcus Mosiah
Garvey Multimedia Museum (2003-2017) carefully reconstructs the history
of Jamaica’s museums, and the world of new museum studies centered- Author: McFarlane, Donna E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9766409196
- Language: English
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Wading in: Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
$41.67 Add to cartWading In: Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast frames the fight for beach and school desegregation within the history of Black life in Biloxi, beginning with the arrival of slave ships on the … [more below]
- Author: Lemco, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1496850343
- Language: English
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Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation
$20.99 Add to cartI have a dream. When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans t
- Author: Jones, Clarence B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0230337554
- Language: English
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Reconstruction: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartThe era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the b… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190865695
- Language: English
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American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
$16.99 Add to cartA remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself.
In this extraordi
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0061999873
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.99 Add to cart“This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time.”-Kirkus Review
“Of female slave
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1513221140
- Language: English
