Topical/Black History
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The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
$22.00 Add to cartIncludes an All-New Afterword.
An unflinching account of America’s most horrific racial massacre, The Burning is essential reading as America finally comes to terms with its racial past. When first pu- Author: Madigan, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800722
- Language: English
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
New York Times Editor’s Pick.
Library Journal Best Books of 2019.
TIME Magazine’s “Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far.”
O, Oprah’s Magazine’s “10 Titles to Pick Up Now.”- Author: Cullors, Patrisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 1250306906
- Language: English
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
$23.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present–edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of… [more below]
- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593449347
- Language: English
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The Blood of Emmett Till
$18.00 Add to cartThis extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement–the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till–“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enou
- Author: Tyson, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476714851
- Language: English
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The African American Struggle for Identity: The Struggle for Somebodiness
$23.00 Add to cartAfrican Americans struggle with identity because of 400 plus years of slavery, Jim Crow, the dark specter of ghettoes, and the New Jim Crow, i.e., prison. In a 1967 speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr…. [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Bishop F. Josephus (Joey), II
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 11 2022
- ISBN10: 166285157X
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
$14.00 Add to cartAn updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials
The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfu- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 28, 2014
- ISBN10: 0143107305
- Language: English
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The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
$19.99 Add to cartThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a
- Author: Jones, Chip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982107537
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: A Biography
$21.99 Add to cart“The most revealing and subjectively penetrating assessment of Baldwin’s life yet published.” —The New York Times Book Review. “The first Baldwin biography in which one can recognize the human featur… [more below]
- Author: Leeming, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1628724382
- Language: English
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
$17.95 Add to cartWidely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever publi… [more below]
- Author: Rothstein, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494538
- Language: English
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Rabbit: A Memoir
$17.99 Read moreFinalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature
Finalist for a 2018 Southern Book Prize for Biography and History
“An absolute must-read” – Shondaland
“[Rabbit] tells how it went down with b
- Author: Williams, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0062407317
- Language: English
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The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
$15.99 Add to cartNational Book Club Conference ‘Book of the Year’ Award Winner
From her more than three hundred appearances for film and television, stage and cabaret, performing comedy or drama, as an unforgettable le
- Author: Lewis, Jenifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0062410415
- Language: English
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They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives
$17.99 Add to cartA deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in A
- Author: Lowery, Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12, 2017
- ISBN10: 0316312495
- Language: English
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
$18.00 Add to cartA comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and re
- Author: Davis, Angela J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0525436618
- Language: English
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
$22.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America’s economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people
Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians- Author: Baptist, Edward E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25, 2016
- ISBN10: 0465049664
- Language: English
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
$18.99 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicag- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1632864134
- 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
$18.99 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: 368
- Publish Date: December 06, 2016
- ISBN10: 0062363603
- Language: English
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Black Like Me
$10.99 Add to cartTHE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA’S SEGREGATED SOUTH
“One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”–Atlanta Journal & Constitu- Author: Griffin, John Howard
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0451234219
- Language: English
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
$17.99 Add to cartA surprise New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race–collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation–… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Jesmyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1501126350
- Language: English
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
$22.99 Add to cartBased off of the bestselling author’s family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic … [more below]
- Author: Haley, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 030682485X
- Language: English
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
$18.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The story of modern medicine and bioethics–and, indeed, race relations–is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”–Entertainment Weekly
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM- Author: Skloot, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1400052181
- Language: English
