Topical/Black History
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The Red Record
$6.99 Add to cartIda B. Wells exposes a series of racially-motivated acts that disproportionately affect African Americans and is overwhelmingly ignored by a majority white criminal justice system. It’s crucial docume
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1513271032
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cartThis powerful and unflinching memoir by young mother and fugitive slave, Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 -1897), remains among the few remaining slave narratives written by a woman.
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1722503025
- Language: English
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
$35.40 Add to cartThis “well-told and inspiring”story (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is the monumental product of Lillian Smith Book Award-winning author Vanessa Siddle Walker’s two-decade investigation into the c
- Author: Walker, Vanessa Siddle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976021
- Language: English
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Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles
$23.99 Add to cartThe Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage.
Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest of slavery, the slave ship Wanderer landed on Jekyll Is
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Roberts, Amy Lotson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1467141186
- Language: English
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Lynching at Port Jervis
$18.00 Add to cartAn account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism.
On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black ma- Author: Dray, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1250867134
- Language: English
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Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience
$49.95 Add to cartSpanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience profiles more than 400 people, places, and ev… [more below]
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Smith, Jessie Carney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1578591929
- Language: English
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Maryland Freedom Seekers on the Underground Railroad
$23.99 Read moreJourney with the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad. Maryland was the starting point of many freedom seekers. They embarked on the perilous journey from slavery to freedom in whatever way they
- Author: Masur, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1467148717
- Language: English
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Phillis Wheatley Peters
$27.95 Add to cartThis new edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters is the first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international celebrit
- Author: Carretta, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820363324
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$18.00 Add to cartBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he w… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106708
- Language: English
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion
$17.99 Add to cart“A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America’s history.” —New York Times
The definitive account of the most infamous slave rebellion in history and the af
- Author: Oates, Stephen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0062656554
- Language: English
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Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862
$39.95 Add to cartAccording to an Akan proverb, “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.” This belief underlies historian Amy Tanner Thiriot’s work in Slavery in Zion, which combines genealogical … [more below]
- Author: Thiriot, Amy Tanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1647690854
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
$32.00 Add to cartThe inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs
In The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestsell
- Author: Green, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675630
- Language: English
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My Vanishing Country
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rura
- Author: Sellers, Bakari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0062917463
- Language: English
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Unbeatable: How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World
$15.99 Add to cartAttucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.
By winning the- Author: Hoose, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250780705
- Language: English
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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
$23.95 Read moreThis entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs–many never before seen–as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by Afri… [more below]
- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: September 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1682752267
- Language: English
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Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism
$20.00 Add to cartIn this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States.
In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innoce… [more below]- Author: Curriden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0385720823
- Language: English
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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
$29.99 Read moreThe companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021
With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric
- Author: Conwill, Kinshasha Holman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0063160641
- Language: English
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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
$27.00 Add to cartJournalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize.
Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of- Author: Duster, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982129816
- Language: English
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The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
$20.99 Add to cartThe civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively ch… [more below]
- Author: Holt, Thomas C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0197525792
- Language: English
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
$35.00 Add to cartLes Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X–all liv
- Author: Payne, Les
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1631491660
- Language: English
