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The Refugee Journey: War, Hope, and Liberty
$20.95 Add to cartWritten by a survivor of the Killing Fields in Cambodia, this book details the life of a refugee journey to America and his family during immense trials of war, hope and freedom.
- Author: Vaun, Toro Saniya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887315959
- Language: English
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Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
$25.00 Add to cartThe astonishing personal and political autobiography of Stokely Carmichael, the legendary civil rights leader, Black Power architect, Pan-African activist, and revolutionary thinker and organizer know… [more below]
- Author: Carmichael, Stokely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: February 15 2005
- ISBN10: 0684850044
- Language: English
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An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
$19.95 Add to cartLittle known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a tw
- Author: Aslan, Reza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065923
- Language: English
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It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
$18.99 Add to cartLuis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano… [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 141658417X
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
$17.95 Add to cartIn 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan.
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- Author: Nimura, Janice P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352781
- Language: English
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Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
$25.00 Add to cartOne of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring t… [more below]
- Author: D’Emilio, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0226142698
- Language: English
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The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo
$19.00 Read moreA poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an … [more below]
- Author: Hongo, Garrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 030738635X
- Language: English
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Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
$17.00 Add to cart“A vibrant memoir of race, violence, family, and manhood…a virtuosic wail of a book” (The Boston Globe), Survival Math calculates how award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson survived the Portland, … [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1501131737
- Language: English
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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
$18.95 Add to cartSheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to organize non-violent demonstrations against discrimi
- Author: Webb, Sheyann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: April 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0817308989
- Language: English
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C is for Colored
$32.30 Add to cartDr. Larry James Ford was born September 1, 1951, in Albany, Georgia. In 1956 at the age of four, his family moved to Aberdeen, Maryland, and later to Havre de Grace, Maryland, where he grew up and at
- Author: Ford, Larry James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1647498325
- Language: English
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Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
$16.00 Add to cartFrom celebrated Congressman John Lewis comes an eyewitness account of history from a key member of the Civil Rights Movement and confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.
In turbulent times Americans look- Author: Lewis, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0316510939
- Language: English
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Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
$18.99 Add to cartIn this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, b… [more below]
- Author: Beals, Melba Pattillo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0671866397
- Language: English
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White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing
$24.99 Add to cartAs seen on The Today Show “Important in helping us understand America’s complex racial history.”–Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Rac- Author: Lukasik, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1510724125
- Language: English
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The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
$18.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A remarkable story about the power of friendship. Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, the three doctors grew up in the streets of Ne- Author: Davis, Sampson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 157322989X
- Language: English
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The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartIn her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, i
- Author: Hayes, Ernestine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 029574572X
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$6.95 Add to cartThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlight- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0345478231
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
$9.94 Add to cart“I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539073
- Language: English
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
$32.50 Read moreFrom National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an … [more below]
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1476773157
- Language: English
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The Face: A Time Code
$12.99 Read more“Ruth Ozeki, a Zen Buddhist priest, sets herself the task of staring at her face in a mirror for three full, uninterrupted hours; her ruminations ripple out from personal and familial memories to wise
- Series: Face
- Author: Ozeki, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1632060523
- Language: English
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Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment: The Military Career of Charles Young
$24.95 Add to cart“A valuable read for anyone with an interest in the final years of the frontier Army, American imperialism, African-Americans in military service, and American military history in general.”–A.A. Nofi
- Author: Shellum, Brian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803213859
- Language: English
