Topical/Black History
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We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
$10.99 Read moreThis young adult adaptation of the New York Times bestselling White Rage is essential antiracist reading for teens.
An NAACP Image Award finalist
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A NYPL Best Book f- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 154760252X
- Language: English
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Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes
$23.99 Read moreExplore accounts of Oklahoma’s Freedmen as told by their descendants in these stories of resistance and resilience on the Western frontier.
The Freedmen of Oklahoma were black people, both enslaved and
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Walton-Raji, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154776
- Language: English
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Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You
$9.99 Read moreWith poetic text and dynamic art, award-winning creators Carole Boston Weatherford and James E. Ransome use key moments from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life to inspire future generations to stand up
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1547608978
- Language: English
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Ruby, Head High: Ruby Bridge’s First Day of School
$19.99 Read moreInspired by an iconic Norman Rockwell painting and translated from an original French text, this is a story about the day a little girl held her head high and changed the world.
- Author: Cohen-Janca, Irene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1568463413
- Language: English
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Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future
$18.99 Read more**A New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick**
**One of Kirkus Reviews‘ Best Nonfiction Books of 2022**
“Political activist Collins-Dexter’s essay collection is timely as well as pointed. In it, she argues t- Author: Collins-Dexter, Brandi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250824125
- Language: English
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Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter
$25.99 Read moreHarriet Tubman, freedom fighter and leader in the Underground Railroad, is one of the most significant figures in U.S. history. Her courage and determination in bringing enslaved people to freedom hav
- Author: Taylor-Stinson, Therese
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1506478336
- Language: English
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A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard
$35.00 Read moreIn the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their constitutional rights. One of those citizens, Clyde Kenn… [more below]
- Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media
- Author: Anderson, Devery S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844041
- Language: English
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Martin Luther King, Jr. = Martin Luther King, Jr.
$12.79 Read moreThe Mi Mini Biografia series are Spanish language biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children … [more below]
- Series: Mi Mini Biografía (My Itty-Bitty Bio): My Early Library
- Author: Haldy, Emma E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1534133186
- Language: Spanish
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Enslavement and the Underground Railroad in Missouri and Illinois
$23.99 Read moreThe Path to Freedom in Missouri and Illinois
People enslaved here experienced the same horrors as those held captive in other states, and their stories of courage and perseverance are amazing. Prisci
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Julie Nicolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154830
- Language: English
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Midnight Without a Moon
$9.99 Read more“A powerful story.” —Kirkus Reviews It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. For now, she’s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man’s cot… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Linda Williams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1328753638
- Language: English
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Condemned for Love in Old Virginia: The Lynching of Arthur Jordan
$23.99 Read moreWhen romance was met with murder…
Arthur Jordan and Elvira Corder were young and unafraid, but their love was doomed. He was black, she was white, and this was Virginia in 1880. When Elvira became pr
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Hall, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154598
- Language: English
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Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
$18.95 Read moreNAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tensi- Author: Young, Rj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1640096167
- Language: English
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Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
$19.99 Read moreThe story of Charles Henry Turner, the first Black entomologist — a scientist who studies bugs — is told in this fascinating book for young readers.
Can spiders learn? How do ants find their way hom- Author: Harrington, Janice N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1629795585
- Language: English
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Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
$29.95 Read more- Author: Seale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 429
- Publish Date: November 15 1996
- ISBN10: 093312130X
- Language: English
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Pow
$20.00 Add to cartHere is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor–a story that reinterprets the history of America’s civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against B… [more below]
- Author: McGuire, Danielle L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0307389243
- Language: English
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The New Fight for Life: Roe, Race, and a Pro-Life Commitment to Justice
$24.99 Read moreThe battle over the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade may be over, but now a bigger fight lies ahead.
For over half a century, pro-life advocates have fought to protect the sanctity of human life. Now … [more below]
- Author: Watson, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1496481437
- Language: English
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We Will Be Free: The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth
$29.99 Read moreChristianity Today Book Award of Merit in History/Biography (2024)
Sojourner Truth’s powerful voice calls to us through this evocative narrative of faith in action–and her words are more relevant tha- Series: Library of Religious Biography (Lrb)
- Author: Koester, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0802872476
- Language: English
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One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
$18.99 Add to cartOne Last Word is the work of a master poet. –Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover
From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grime- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1619635542
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$29.95 Read more“A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.”
“The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who’s Black and Why? contain a world of ideas–theo
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0674244265
- Language: English
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I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters
$35.00 Add to cartBAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, o
- Author: Rustin, Bayard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 516
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0872865789
- Language: English
