African American & Black
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$33.99 Add to cartThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021845
- Language: English
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See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemon Jefferson
$28.00 Read moreA new biography of the beloved but mysterious Blind Lemon Jefferson, famous blues musician. Born in 1897, Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar at the corner of Elm Street and Ce… [more below]
- Author: Govenar, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646053125
- Language: English
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Blm: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution
$28.99 Read moreThe George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and dem
- Author: Gonzalez, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1641772239
- Language: English
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$32.00 Read moreThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1324005939
- Language: English
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Black Theology and Black Faith
$26.99 Read moreBecome Black with the oppressed Christ.
Contemporary Black theology is complex and far-reaching. In this concise yet thorough volume, Noel Leo Erskine examines Black theology from ev… [more below]- Author: Erskine, Noel Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0802875602
- Language: English
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Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
$19.99 Add to cartJoin thought leaders fighting to win the posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey, one of the most influential figures in Black history.
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was a Black political activist, journalist,
- Author: Garvey, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1506488722
- Language: English
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Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities That Shaped a Borough
$30.00 Add to cartMeet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City’s most populous borough through their search for social justice
Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nation’s third largest city. Its free Bl- Author: Kanakamedala, Prithi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1479833096
- Language: English
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Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street
$25.00 Add to cartA multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrifi… [more below]
- Author: Luckerson, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0593134397
- Language: English
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When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era
$22.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the … [more below]
- Author: Ramsey, Donovan X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0525511814
- Language: English
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Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul
$29.99 Add to cartAn unflinching look at the all but forgotten though no less shocking 1979 racial tragedy that divided Greensboro, N.C., and the nation, and the grassroots activists who, in their tireless fight for ju
- Author: Shetterly, Aran Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0062858211
- Language: English
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Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies
$27.95 Add to cartKnown worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous – as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the S… [more below]
- Author: Bernard, Sheila Curran
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 253
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1009098128
- Language: English
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Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit
$27.50 Add to cartAn award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit.
In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended i- Author: Bernstein, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 022674423X
- Language: English
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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 1 (Loa #376): 1876 – 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
$37.50 Read moreThis collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War I
A vital resource for- Author: Steptoe, Tyina L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 700
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537660
- Language: English
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111 Places in Black Culture in Washington, DC That You Must Not Miss
$23.95 Add to cart- Author: Williamson, Lauri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 19 2024
- ISBN10: 3740820039
- Language: English
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The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
$30.00 Add to cartOne of Literary Hub‘s most anticipated books of 2024
How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, an
A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia–and sought to transform their lives.- Author: Robertson, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0374604983
- Language: English
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Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region
$24.00 Add to cartThe Reconstruction era was born from the tumult and violence of the Civil War and delivered the most powerful changes the United States had seen since its founding. Black Americans in Washington, D.C…. [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1469680181
- Language: English
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The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
$21.00 Add to cartThe dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois’s reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I—and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers.
When W. E. B. Du Bois,- Author: Williams, Chad L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321913
- Language: English
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Celebrating Around the Table: Learning the Stories of Black Christians Through Readings, Fellowship, Food, and Faith
$34.99 Read moreExplore the Stories, Food, and Faith of Black Americans
Your family is invited to learn more about the accomplishments and adversities of twelve noteworthy African American believers, including Fred- Author: Newbell, Trillia J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0736988963
- Language: English
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A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940
$22.95 Add to cartPublished in cooperation with Oregon Black Pioneers
A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940, remains the most comprehensive chronology of Black life in Oregon more than forty ye- Author: McLagan, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0870712217
- Language: English
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Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of “The Town of George” in 1751 to the Present Day, 30th Anniversar
$29.95 Read moreBlack Georgetown Remembered is a compelling journey through more than two hundred years of history. This one-of-a-kind book invites readers to consider how the unique heritage of this neighborhood int
- Author: Lesko, Kathleen Menzie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: January 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1647121655
- Language: English
