Topical/Black History
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Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!
$12.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2011 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction
“On behalf of the Nova Scotia government, I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Viola Desmond’s family and to all African Nova Scoti
- Author: Warner, Jody Nyasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 177306035X
- Language: English
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Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York
$19.95 Read more- Series: Kentucky Voices
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0813196450
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
$7.95 Read moreThe powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition
“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0300087012
- Language: English
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The Nile Swim Club of Yeadon: A History
$24.99 Read moreAmerica’s Oldest Black Swim Club
When it opened in July of 1959, the Nile Swim Club welcomed over one thousand people to its pool. The only problem that day, remembers Bill Mellix, then 13, “None of u
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Kodosky Phd, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156124
- Language: English
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Breaking Through the Lines: The Marion Motley Story
$14.99 Read moreMarion Motley was recognized as one of the gridiron’s most outstanding players when he was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968 in his hometown of Canton, Ohio. His legacy off the fiel
- Author: Morgan Jr, David Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1634947533
- Language: English
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
$9.95 Add to cart“How It Feels To Be Colored Me” by Florida native Zora Neale Hurston was originally published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece about her own color, Hurston reflects on… [more below]
- Series: American Roots
- Author: Hurston, Zora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1429096179
- Language: English
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Emma’s Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century
$66.67 Read moreBCALA 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winner
The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings,- Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora
- Author: Mitchell, Faith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1496843150
- Language: English
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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
$7.99 Read moreIn this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story”… [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1481449397
- Language: English
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Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician
$18.99 Read more“A detail-rich picture book.” —Kirkus Reviews
From award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome and acclaimed illustrator Ra l Col n comes the sens
“Straightforward and inviting.” —School Library Journal- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1534404759
- Language: English
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Howard Thurman’s Great Hope
$10.95 Read moreBorn in segregated Daytona, Florida, in 1899, Howard Thurman grew up dreaming of a better life–a life where his mother and grandmother would not have to cook and clean for other people; a life where
- Author: Issa, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1600608906
- Language: English
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
$29.73 Add to cartThe groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed
“As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produ
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1620970287
- Language: English
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Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
$50.00 Read moreGordon Parks’ ethically complex depictions of crime in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with previously unseen photographs
A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick
Whe- Author: Parks, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 3958296963
- Language: English
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Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn’t just about fashion. It’s about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hust… [more below]
- Author: Day, Daniel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525510532
- Language: English
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Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation
$29.95 Read moreThese essays, articles, and documents introduce readers to the history of Georgetown University’s involvement in slavery and recent efforts to confront its troubling past. It traces Georgetown’s “Slav
- Author: Rothman, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1647120969
- Language: English
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Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk about Racism–And How to Do It
$27.99 Add to cart“Simply the best book I’ve read on how to have those conversations. Unflinchingly honest, exceptionally well-reasoned and researched, there is so much to admire about Speaking of Race.”–Angela Duckwo
- Author: Headlee, Celeste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0063098156
- Language: English
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Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Lives
$40.00 Read more“When we lift every voice, we forge a deep and enduring connection to the past–and carve a tunnel of hope to a brighter future for us all.” -Oprah Winfrey
“This book, above all else, is a reminder of… [more below]- Author: Winfrey, Oprah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1950785815
- Language: English
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The Good Fight
$17.99 Add to cartThe revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman and person of color–a work of immense historical importance
- Author: Chisholm, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 006316082X
- Language: English
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
$24.00 Add to cartBoth an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white Amer… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0452282101
- Language: English
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
$21.00 Read moreAn electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfight- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805079335
- Language: English
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#You Know You’re Black in France When: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness
$34.95 Read moreA groundbreaking study about everyday antiblackness and its refusal in an officially raceblind France.
What does it mean to be racialized-as-black in France on a daily basis? #You Know You’re Black in- Author: Keaton, Trica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047780
- Language: English
