Topical/Black History
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Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartBlack, Buckskin, and Blue takes an in-depth look at African Americans who were scouts and soldiers on the United States western frontier during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author explo… [more below]
- Author: Burton, Arthur T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: April 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1571687866
- Language: English
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
$24.99 Add to cart“Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-… [more below]
- Author: Shih, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585551
- Language: English
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Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
$26.95 Add to cartWinner, 2022 Ottis Lock Endowment “Best Book” Award from the East Texas Historical Association
In Lynching and Leisure, Terry Anne Scott examines how white Texans transformed lynching from a largely- Author: Scott, Terry Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1682262189
- Language: English
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Days of Fear: A Lynching in St. Petersburg
$17.95 Add to cartDays of Fear exposes the shocking story of a gruesome 1914 murder in St. Petersburg, Florida and the calculated lynching of the Black man accused. Who killed Frank Sherman with a shotgun blast inches
- Author: Wilson, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1940300738
- Language: English
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Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women
$17.99 Add to cartBlack women are beautiful, intelligent and capable –but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises the strength of women, while exploring how traum
- Author: Burnett-Zeigler, Inger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0062959832
- Language: English
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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
$27.99 Read moreTwo unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them
In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and- Author: Cope, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1641604522
- Language: English
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South
$28.32 Add to cartA timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts
Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work
- Author: Chafe, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 162097682X
- Language: English
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The Burning (Young Readers Edition): Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
$16.99 Add to cartOne of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The- Author: Madigan, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1250878640
- Language: English
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We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak!
$45.00 Add to cartThese authors, all deeply dedicated to the telling of an African story, are committed to righting the wrongs of intellectual inquiry by setting upright the standards, criteria, and assumptions often a
- Author: Akomolafe, Adebayo C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 0982532768
- Language: English
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
$18.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities in early America that “reminds us of the cold calculus at the intersection of slavery and capitalism” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Searing, revelatory, and vita… [more below]- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0807067148
- Language: English
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The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire
$40.99 Add to cartA wide-ranging political biography of diplomat, Nobel prize winner, and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche.
A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most promi- Author: Raustiala, Kal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0197602231
- Language: English
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Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America
$16.99 Add to cartA resounding answer to and rejection of the New York Times’ infamous “1619 Project,” labeling America as little more than a failed state based on slavery and oppression. A distinguished educator tears… [more below]
- Author: Grabar, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513065
- Language: English
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities
$20.00 Read moreA groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.
A 2006 report commissioned by Brown Universit- Author: Wilder, Craig Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1608194027
- Language: English
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Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing Legacy
$18.95 Add to cartBlack Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia history since colonial times. In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, Amy Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia f… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Amy Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1439923655
- Language: English
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
$18.95 Add to cartSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln’s lifelong engagement with the nation’s critical issue: American s… [more below]
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 039334066X
- Language: English
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March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
$24.99 Add to cartIt was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr… [more below]
- Author: Jones, William P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0393349411
- Language: English
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Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
$35.00 Add to cartThe films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing histo… [more below]
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Bogle, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0762491418
- Language: English
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A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals
$21.99 Add to cartAuthor Tony Kail traces Memphis’s colorful Hoodoo heritage from the arrival of Africans in Shelby County to the growth of conjure culture in juke joints and Spiritual Churches.
Widely known for its mus
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Kail, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137391
- Language: English
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Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
$18.99 Add to cart“Ford’s overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood an
- Author: Ford, Clyde W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0063038528
- Language: English
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The Hoodoo Tarot Workbook: Rootwork, Rituals, and Divination
$19.99 Add to cartA guide to advanced practices with the bestselling The Hoodoo Tarot
– Provides rituals for each of the Major Arcana cards and shares exercises for resolving problems and dysfunctional patterns the car- Author: McQuillar, Tayannah Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1644116332
- Language: English
