Topical/Black History
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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
$18.99 Add to cartThe essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy–Parting the Waters; Pillar o… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1451662467
- Language: English
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
$26.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE
From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE RECOMMENDED BOOK
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE- Author: Grandin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062101
- Language: English
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The Isaiah Fountain Case
$35.93 Add to cartThe Isaiah Fountain Case: Outrage and Jim Crow Justice on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is a riveting account of racial injustice in Talbot County, painstakingly pieced together from the headlines and cour… [more below]
- Series: 1
- Author: Koper, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1735995797
- Language: English
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The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened — and of a nation on the brink of monumental change.
In the fall of 1943, at- Author: Ellsworth, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0316244627
- Language: English
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School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness
$25.95 Read moreA chorus of Black student voices that renders a new story of US education–one where racial barriers and violence are confronted by freedom dreaming and resistance
Black students were forced to live a- Author: Givens, Jarvis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 080705481X
- Language: English
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1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History
$22.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and engaging account of the most significant events, individuals, terms, ideas, and social movements that make up the dazzling canvas of African American history–from the National Boo… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Jeffrey C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 04 1998
- ISBN10: 038548576X
- Language: English
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
$18.99 Add to cartA “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico
The Underground Railroad to the North promise- Author: Baumgartner, Alice L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541617762
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$9.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a masterpiece of American literature, a foundational text of sociology, and a deeply personal answer to the question “What is it like to be a Black
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172833
- Language: English
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Black Indian Slave Narratives
$17.95 Add to cartFew people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native American
- Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
- Author: Minges, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0895872986
- Language: English
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
$18.99 Add to cart“An elegant and expansive history” (New York Times) of African American women’s pursuit of political power–and how it transformed America
In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Ma- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600258
- Language: English
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Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community
$19.95 Read moreBetween 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun’s plantation house stil
- Series: Humanities and Public Life
- Author: Thomas, Rhondda Robinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 02, 2020
- ISBN10: 1609387406
- Language: English
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Through the Waters: The Life and Ministry of Evangelist Willie Johnson
$16.95 Add to cartWillie Johnson
Granddaughter of a slave.
Rejected by her father.
Sold by her mother.
Abused by her husband.
How did a biracial woman become accepted to preach revivals in the Deep South and coast to coast
- Author: Lori, Wagner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: February 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1733551700
- Language: English
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
$12.95 Read moreOne of the most memorable speeches in American history, Frederick Douglass’s What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? is now available in an elegant hardcover edition. Douglass first delivered the fam… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1429095636
- Language: English
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The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey: From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop
$20.00 Add to cartWhen I navigate the currents of the soul, I find myself within my ancestral pool. I find myself swimming in their grief, and the longing during the great event and initiation called the Middle Passage
- Author: Bishop, Orland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 03 2017
- ISBN10: 158420964X
- Language: English
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Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina, 1670-1740
$21.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1974, Black Majority marked a breakthrough in our understanding of early American history. Today, Wood’s insightful study remains more relevant and enlightening than ever. This land
- Author: Wood, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066202
- Language: English
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Gifted Hands 20th Anniversary Edition: The Ben Carson Story
$29.99 Add to cartGifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Chi
- Author: Carson, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0310332907
- Language: English
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Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
$18.99 Add to cartJoin award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.
For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place w
- Author: Hall, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063271974
- Language: English
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
$18.95 Add to cartWhat began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defian
- Author: Hinton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092009
- Language: English
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Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets
$22.95 Add to cart“Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging…potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit.”–Washington Post
“Terrifying and fearlessly inventive.”–New York Times- Author: Coleman, Wanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1574232533
- Language: English
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
$20.99 Add to cartA brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s–“Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who love… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1501122428
- Language: English
