Topical/Black History
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Because of You, John Lewis
$18.99 Add to cartAn inspiring story of a friendship between Congressman John Lewis and ten-year-old activist Tybre Faw by New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney!
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- Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 1338759086
- Language: English
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophe… [more below]
- Series: King Legacy (Paperback) #2
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0807000671
- Language: English
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Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
$19.95 Add to cart“The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We’re ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win.” -Colin Kaepernick
Since its foundin… [more below]- Author: Kaepernick, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital
$34.95 Add to cartMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s ex… [more below]
- Author: Asch, Chris Myers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1469654725
- Language: English
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Small Worlds
$27.00 Read moreAn exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and Costa First Novel Award winning author Caleb Azumah Nelson
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- Author: Nelson, Caleb Azumah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161960
- Language: English
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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
$19.99 Add to cartBased on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award-nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062742469
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$12.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fict… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555834
- Language: English
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Why We Can’t Wait
$10.99 Read moreMartin Luther King’s classic exploration of the events and forces behind the Civil Rights Movement–including his Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963.
“There comes a time when the cup of endur- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0451527534
- Language: English
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Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir
$32.00 Add to cartLast of the Lions is two histories woven into one remarkable story. It’s a personal journey–the evocative life of Clarence B. Jones, from his depression- and segregation-era upbringing at the hands o
- Author: Jones, Clarence B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 411
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1952485932
- Language: English
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Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote
$18.99 Read moreShortlist, Goddard Riverside/CBC Young People’s Book Prize for Social Justice
This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee’s Fayette County Tent City Movement- Author: Duncan, Alice Faye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684379792
- Language: English
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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards for Author and Illustrator
A Caldecott Honor Book
A Sibert Honor Book
Longlisted for the National Book Award
A Kirkus Prize Finalist
A Boston Globe-H
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541581202
- Language: English
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Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker
$18.99 Add to cartLearn about the civil rights activist Ella Baker in this inspiring picture book from Sibert Honor winner Patricia Hruby Powell and Caldecott Honor winner R. Gregory Christie.
“What do you hope to acco- Author: Powell, Patricia Hruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 09, 2020
- ISBN10: 1534406239
- Language: English
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Ghost Roast
$18.99 Add to cartGhost Roast delivers a paranormal adventure full of first crushes, lost histories, and the impossible task of fitting in when your dad is a professional ghosthunter. A stand-alone YA graphic novel fro
- Author: Gibbs, Shawneé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 035814180X
- Language: English
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Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
$6.99 Add to cartThe story of one of the most influential civil rights activist of our time.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black pe- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Bader, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0448447231
- Language: English
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Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You
$15.99 Add to cartTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
This chapter book edition of the groundbreaking #1 bestseller by luminaries Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds is an essential introduction to the history of racism and- Author: Reynolds, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 11, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316167584
- Language: English
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In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning
$29.00 Add to cartWinner of the Mississippi Historical Society Book of the Year Award
In this “courageous and compelling … essential and critically important” book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of whit- Author: Hale, Grace Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316564745
- Language: English
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Our Story Starts in Africa
$18.99 Read moreAward-winning writer Patrice Lawrence’s picture book Our Story Starts in Africa is a sensitively told story of Black history from its very ancient origins to its dynamic future, vibrantly illustrated
- Author: Lawrence, Patrice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 141976022X
- Language: English
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Ghost Boys
$8.99 Add to cartA heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.
Only the living can make the worl- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316262269
- Language: English
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
$30.00 Read moreA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and na- Author: Shane, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1250843219
- Language: English
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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
$30.00 Add to cartNew York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage.
In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses a… [more below]- Author: Smilios, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593544927
- Language: English
