Topical/Black History
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A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till
$18.99 Add to cartThe last surviving witness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with poignant recollections of Emmett as a boy, critical insights into the recent investigation, and powerful lessons for rac… [more below]
- Author: Parker, Wheeler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593134281
- Language: English
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The Spirituals and the Blues – 50th Anniversary Edition
$20.00 Add to cart“The power of song in the struggle for Black survival–that is what the spirituals and the blues are about.” James H. Cone revolutionized American theology with the publication in 1969 and 1970 of his… [more below]
- Author: James, Cone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1626984816
- Language: English
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Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
$6.00 Read moreIn 1937, Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and one of the most controversial figures in the history of race relations, assembled his most trusted organizers to impa… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0486842797
- Language: English
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Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South
$21.99 Add to cartMen and women who carried the mantle of African healing and spirituality in the Mid-South were frequently accused and attacked for their misunderstood culture. The same healers and spiritual workers f… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Kail, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1467139890
- Language: English
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Message To The People Hardcover
$33.00 Add to cartThis fascinating distillation of a great leader’s experience is published here
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1639234101
- Language: English
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (Loa #350): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Whichblack Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstructdemocracy i
$45.00 Read moreA definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War’s aftermath and the legacy of racism in America
Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois’s now classi- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1097
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1598537032
- Language: English
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Michelle Obama: Quotes to Live by: A Life-Affirming Collection of More Than 170 Quotes
$9.95 Add to cartA life-affirming collection of more than 170 quotes from one of the world’s most admired and respected public figures: Michelle Obama.
“People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly
- Series: Little Book Of… #2
- Author: Hippo, Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1787392902
- Language: English
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Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
$18.99 Add to cart“I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency falt
- Author: Rieder, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1620400596
- Language: English
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The Weeping Time
$25.00 Add to cartIn 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation… [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Anne C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1316643484
- Language: English
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All God’s Children: How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity
$19.99 Add to cartThe more you understand someone’s history, the better you can see their humanity. This is true for individuals as well as for society at large. Race relations have suffered because of the erasure of i
- Author: Lester, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1514005956
- Language: English
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African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence
$84.95 Add to cartCourage, resilience and triumph! Celebrating the African American experience, the extraordinary people, and their profound influence on American history!
African Americans helped build the United Stat
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Bracks, Lean’tin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1578598311
- Language: English
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The Gist of Bid Whist: The Culturally-Rich Card Game from Black America
$18.00 Add to cartThe world’s greatest card game awaits you.
Combining the strategic engagement of Bridge and the risk-taking swagger of Poker, Bid Whist has captivated luminaries like Justice Thurgood Marshall, Michae
- Author: Jones, Lamont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987407639
- Language: English
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Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
$25.00 Add to cartThe 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams’s celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Mont- Series: Eyes on the Prize
- Author: Williams, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124749
- Language: English
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Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
$21.95 Read moreTwenty Dollars and Change places Harriet Tubman’s life and legacy in a long tradition of resistance, illuminating the ongoing struggle to realize a democracy in which her emancipatory vision prevails.
- Author: Lusane, Clarence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868850
- Language: English
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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
$33.82 Read moreA “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times Book Review
“Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.”
—Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Leona- Author: Clark, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1620971860
- Language: English
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The Chosen One: Triumphs of a Black Girl in the Ivy League
$15.99 Add to cartThis memoir filled with “overwhelming emotions and power” (The Mary Sue) testifies to the disappointments and triumphs of a Black first-generation college student in a predominantly white institution.… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Echo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 316310735
- Language: English
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Kansas City’s Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home
$24.99 Add to cartA few blocks southeast of the famed intersection of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri, just a stone’s throw from Charlie Parker’s old stomping grounds and the current home of the vaunted American
- Author: Carr, Margie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0700634673
- Language: English
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Before the Mayflower; A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962
$20.99 Add to cartThe black experience in America–starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961–is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of A
- Author: Bennett, Lerone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: June 18 2020
- ISBN10: 3584749972
- Language: English
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A Story Untold
$19.95 Add to cartA Story Untold was born in a classroom in Clarke Central High School in 1971. An 18-year-old Michael Thurmond was a member of the first graduating class of the newly-consolidated Clarke Central, a mer
- Author: Thurmond, Michael L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1947309838
- Language: English
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartBlack autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the ’60s and ’70s.
- Author: Surkin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1608462218
- Language: English
