Topical/Black History
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Yosemite Stage Driver: The Life and Times of George Monroe and His Family
$19.99 Add to cartOne glorious week in Yosemite, stage driver George Monroe shared his bench with Ulysses S. Grant. The backstory, told here for the first time, reveals a family’s epic journey from the Antebellum South
- Author: Bopp, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988162001
- Language: English
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A Quilted Life: Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter
$26.99 Read moreCatherine Meeks shares the wisdom she has garnered over the journey of her life, from her father’s sharecropping fields to the academy and beyond.
Today, Catherine Meeks is a national leader of raci- Author: Meeks, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0802882897
- Language: English
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Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
$17.99 Read moreNAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist
2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree
The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit–a blend of memoir, l
- Author: Boyd, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346636
- Language: English
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The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City’s Search for Justice
$18.00 Add to cartHousatonic Book Award Winner
Longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and Stowe Prize
One of The New York Times’ “11 New- Author: Ellsworth, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0593182995
- Language: English
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We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality
$24.95 Add to cartIn this exceedingly timely book, Louis Moore looks at the history of Black activist athletes and the important role of the Black community in insisting that the concept of fair play should apply not o
- Series: Race and Sports
- Author: Moore, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0813153808
- Language: English
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Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
$27.95 Add to cartHow did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed,
- Author: May, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0813945100
- Language: English
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A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America
$38.95 Add to cartA Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication
Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world’s largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washi- Author: Feiler, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 082035841X
- Language: English
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
$20.00 Add to cartThis “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South–and their daring attempt to es… [more below]
- Author: Bell, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1501169440
- Language: English
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
$37.00 Add to cartA major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
-He rescued 118 ens- Author: Brock, Jared A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1541773926
- Language: English
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The Gentleman from Ohio
$24.95 Add to cartLouis Stokes was a giant in Ohio politics and one of the most significant figures in the U.S. Congress in recent times. When he arrived in the House of Representatives as a freshman in 1969, there wer… [more below]
- Series: Trillium Books
- Author: Stokes, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0814253679
- Language: English
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Reflections by Rosa Parks: The Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation
$16.99 Read moreOn December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of the social injustice. Yet, her simple
- Author: Parks, Rosa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0310367409
- Language: English
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Whaling Captains of Color: America’s First Meritocracy
$21.95 Add to cartThe history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn’t been told is the story of whaling’s leaders of color in … [more below]
- Author: Finley, Skip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682478327
- Language: English
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Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration
$29.95 Add to cartJuneteenth has been touted as a national day celebrating the end of slavery. Observances from coast to coast have turned this event into part of the national conversation about race, slavery, and how
- Author: Cotham, Edward, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1649670079
- Language: English
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1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project
$20.99 Add to cartPeter Wood argues against the flawed interpretation of history found in the New York Times‘ 1619 Project and asserts that the true origins of American self-government were enshrined in the Mayflower C
- Author: Wood, Peter W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1641772492
- Language: English
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
$4.99 Add to cartWhat to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a speech by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Frederick Douglass became a prominent orator and autobiograp
- Series: Mint Editions–Black Narratives
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: April 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1513290975
- Language: English
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The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend” (Publishers Weekly)–the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world’s fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Cro… [more below]
- Author: Kranish, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1501192604
- Language: English
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Built by Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond
$33.99 Add to cartRichmond’s vast and varied collection of architecture provides an archive of African American history. Author Selden Richardson explains how iconic symbols of old Richmond and the generations of black… [more below]
- Author: Richardson, Selden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1540218686
- Language: English
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A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
$19.99 Read moreThis mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of cul
- Author: Hartfield, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0358667992
- Language: English
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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England
$25.95 Add to cartShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, … [more below]
- Author: Hardesty, Jared Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1625344570
- Language: English
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The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 with a Comprehensive Chronology of Missions and Events
$28.95 Add to cartMany documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have … [more below]
- Author: Caver, Joseph D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1588382443
- Language: English
