Topical/Black History
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Muhammad Ali
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Muhammad Ali, “the greatest” boxer of all time.
When he wa- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #21
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1786033313
- Language: English
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
$18.00 Read moreAs featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Finalist, Longlisted for the National Book Award, NPR Politics Podcast Book Club Choice
Best Books of the- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1635571391
- Language: English
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Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1921 Tulsa’s Greenwood District, known then as the nation’s “Black Wall Street,” was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a whi… [more below]
- Author: Krehbiel, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0806168714
- Language: English
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1919
$16.00 Add to cartNPR Best Books of 2019
Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2019
Chicago Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2019
O Magazine Best Books by Women of Summer 2019
The Millions Must-Read Poetry of June 2019
LitH- Author: Ewing, Eve L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1608465985
- Language: English
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Unbought and Unbossed
$17.99 Read moreIn this classic work–a blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today–the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New York’s dynamic representa
- Author: Chisholm, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0063160870
- Language: English
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
$18.00 Read moreFrom one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War.
Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents,- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 375702741
- Language: English
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buffalo soldiers: reVision
$25.00 Add to cartIn July of 1866, Congress passed the Army Reorganization Act, establishing six all-Black cavalry and infantry regiments. While African Americans had fought in every prior American military conflict, t
- Author: Thomas, Chip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988013341
- Language: English
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
$27.95 Add to cartThe first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America
Beginning with pre-Rev- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Mays, Kyle T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0807011681
- Language: English
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The Green Book of South Carolina: A Travel Guide to African American Cultural Sites
$16.95 Add to cartSouth Carolina is a state of incredible African American history: from the lunch counter in Rock Hill where the Friendship Nine began their “Jail, No Bail” protests, to the site where the freedom song
- Series: Hub City Writers Project
- Author: Parks, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1938235983
- Language: English
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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Winner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
Winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award
Winner of the MAAH- Author: Brooks, Daphne A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292200
- Language: English
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness
$17.95 Add to cart“This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation’s history!”
– Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Northern Minnesota
Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness i
- Author: Babcock, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987319154
- Language: English
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Juneteenth for Mazie
$15.95 Read moreMazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day in American history. The day her ancestors were no longer slaves. Mazie remembers the stru… [more below]
- Series: Fiction Picture Books
- Author: Cooper, Floyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1623701708
- Language: English
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Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
$21.95 Add to cart- Author: Cook Bell, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 110892672X
- Language: English
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Child of the Dream (a Memoir of 1963)
$16.99 Read moreAn incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement.
In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns thirteen the night before George Wallace declares o… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1338282808
- Language: English
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Chowan Beach: Remembering an African American Resort
$31.99 Add to cartIn 1928, Eli Reid purchased 400 acres of picturesque property on the banks of the Chowan River in Hertford County, North Carolina. Soon after he acquired the land, Reid began turning the area into a S… [more below]
- Author: Stephenson, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 30 2006
- ISBN10: 1540224783
- Language: English
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Black Cowboys of the Old West: True, Sensational, And Little-Known Stories From History
$14.95 Add to cartWhen the Civil War ended black men left in large numbers to find a way to make a living in the Old West. They were hard working, industrious men who were determined to carve out a life for themselves … [more below]
- Author: Wagner, Tricia Martineau
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0762760710
- Language: English
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
$20.00 Add to cartMLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott.
A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the succe- Series: King Legacy (Paperback) #1
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0807000698
- Language: English
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Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey
$32.00 Read moreA new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story of two grassroots organizers
The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived m- Author: Berger, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675363
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Married a Skull and Other African Stories: And Other African Stories
$15.00 Add to cart“Dynamic and thought-provoking.” – KIRKUS
Have you heard the one about the skull who borrowed body parts to pass himself off as a human so he could trick the village beauty into marriage? No? Well, w- Series: Cautionary Fables and Fairytales
- Author: McDonald, Kel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: December 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1945820241
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter
$5.99 Add to cartLearn about the inspiring life of Harriet Tubman in this early reader biography. This I Can Read book is an excellent choice to share in the classroom or at home.
Harriet Tubman was a brave woman who w
- Series: I Can Read Level 2
- Author: Hohn, Nadia L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0062432842
- Language: English
