Topical/Black History
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My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives
$21.99 Add to cart“Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definit
- Author: Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 006313540X
- Language: English
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
$20.00 Add to cartSaidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for
- Author: Hartman, Saidiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021586
- Language: English
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Nature Swagger: Stories and Visions of Black Joy in the Outdoors
$24.95 Read moreAn exquisite combination of beautiful photography and compelling stories, this book from Outdoor Afro founder, Rue Mapp, celebrates Black joy in nature.
Filled with breathtaking photography, inspiring- Author: Mapp, Rue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1797214292
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad (the Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
$22.99 Add to cartA young reader’s edition of award-winning author Candacy Taylor’s acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers.
Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the G- Author: Taylor, Candacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1419749498
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight
$50.00 Read moreFrom award-winning photojournalist Richard Frishman comes a collection of photographs documenting America’s history of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism hidden in plain sight, accompanied
- Author: Frishman, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250831687
- Language: English
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American Negra: A Memoir
$28.99 Read moreAward-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cu
- Author: Alford, Natasha S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0063237105
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
$35.00 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book, Overground Railroad is the first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists used for decades when trav… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Candacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1419738178
- Language: English
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An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
$35.00 Add to cartBy the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates … [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673266
- Language: English
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Who Is Michelle Obama?
$5.99 Read moreBorn into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, as t… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Stine, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0448478633
- Language: English
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Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge st… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Nikki M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: July 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 1009276840
- Language: English
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The Underground Abductor: Bigger & Badder Edition (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #5)
$19.99 Add to cartUnderground Abductor: Bigger & Badder Edition is a deluxe, oversized edition of author-illustrator Nathan Hale’s original graphic novel in the New York Times bestselling Hazardous Tales series–with 1
- Series: Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #5
- Author: Hale, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1419762176
- Language: English
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space–a powerful, revel
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0062677284
- Language: English
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Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
$16.95 Read moreIn the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americ… [more below]
- Author: Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Stokely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556526490
- Language: English
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All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
$17.99 Add to cartExperience the joy of Juneteenth in this celebration of freedom from the award-winning team of Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis.
Through the eyes of one little girl, All Different Now tells the story of- Author: Johnson, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 6, 2014
- ISBN10: 068987376X
- Language: English
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Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson
$31.99 Add to cartA compelling narrative of the trials and triumphs of tennis champion Althea Gibson, a key figure in the integration of American sports and, for a time, one of the most famous women in the world.
From- Author: Brown, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0197551750
- Language: English
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
$23.00 Add to cart“She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far
- Series: Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies
- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 022669142X
- Language: English
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS’ 10 BEST BOOKS
LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, LOS ANGELES TIMES- Author: Forman, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 6, 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537445
- Language: English
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Back Road to Progress: Documented Accounts of the Historical Civil Rights Movement in the United States and Its Impact on One Family’s Decisi
$15.95 Add to cartThrough the lens of a child and based on true events, Back Road to Progress is a historical documentation of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and its impact on one Black family’s decisio
- Author: McCoy Smith, C. Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: December 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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What Was the March on Washington?
$7.99 Add to cartOn August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, and it wa… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Krull, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0448462877
- Language: English
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Reconstruction Updated Edition: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
$25.99 Add to cartFrom the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.
Eric Foner’s “masterful treatment
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 2, 2014
- ISBN10: 0062354515
- Language: English
