African American & Black
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Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (a Pivotal Event in the History o
$19.99 Add to cartThe Story Behind an Unsung Event in the Civil Rights Movement
“Over eight days, eight students sparked change that defined their lives, changed an institution and fueled a movement that continues today
- Author: Allman Maye, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: December 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1642507717
- Language: English
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Bronzeville Nights: On the Town in Chicago’s Black Metropolis
$29.95 Read moreBronzeville was once America’s most vibrant Black community–next to Harlem. Nightclubs, dance halls, rialtos, and jazz and blues joints lined the streets of Chicago’s South Side. Not much is left. A
- Author: Dubin, Steven C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1733869026
- Language: English
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River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans
$34.95 Add to cartIn the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration’s efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down… [more below]
- Author: Cahan, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0991541855
- Language: English
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
$44.00 Add to cartThis “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America–and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0316278742
- Language: English
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Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History
$34.95 Add to cartJournalists began to call the Korean War “the Forgotten War” even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already neglected war is that of African Americans who served just … [more below]
- Author: Cline, David P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1469664534
- Language: English
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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
$35.00 Add to cartRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes.
American taxation is unfair, an- Author: Kahrl, Andrew W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 24 2024
- ISBN10: 022673059X
- Language: English
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Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
$18.99 Read moreBestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton brings to light the stories of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement, drawing on his unique perspective in the history of the fight for social justice
- Author: Sharpton, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1335449647
- Language: English
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Unbroken and Unbowed: A History of Black Protest in America
$30.00 Add to cartIn this compelling and informative volume, Jimmie R. Hawkins walks the reader through the many forms of Black protest in American history, from pre-colonial times though the George Floyd protests of 2
- Author: Hawkins, Jimmie R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0664267378
- Language: English
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To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University
$21.95 Add to cartLaw professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of
- Author: Kapur, Geeta N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 385
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 194946752X
- Language: English
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Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles
$31.99 Add to cartThe Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage. Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest of slavery, the slave ship Wanderer landed on Jekyll I… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Amy Lotson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1540240096
- Language: English
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Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche (Book on Black History, Gift for Women, African American History, and for Readers of Titan
$16.95 Add to cartWho was Joseph Laroche, the only black passenger on board the Titanic? Where was he going? How did he end up on the ship? It’s a story never before told. The Only Black Man on the Titanic is definitel… [more below]
- Author: Bile, Serge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 163353958X
- Language: English
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Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions
$28.00 Add to cartNew Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Author: Johnson, Rashauna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1107591163
- Language: English
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The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition
$24.95 Add to cartThe story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles.
At once a history for understanding fascism and a
- Author: Hope, Jeanelle K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888900949
- Language: English
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Gruesome Looking Objects: A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things
$48.17 Add to cartThe 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer is retold in this groundbreaking book. Unlike other histories of lynching that rely on conventional historical records, this study focuses on the objects… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
- Author: Gaddis, Elijah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1316514021
- Language: English
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Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality
$22.50 Add to cartA concise overview of 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity, from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Vi… [more below]
- Author: Sherry, Karen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1911282999
- Language: English
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Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition
$39.95 Add to cartHow W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in America
At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologi
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1942884532
- Language: English
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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
$24.00 Add to cartWhen it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Cox, Karen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662671
- Language: English
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Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962
$29.99 Add to cartThe black experience in America–starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961–is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of A
- Author: Bennett, Lerone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115353
- Language: English
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
$25.48 Read moreRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle
Nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, a groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in
- Author: Bell, Janet Dewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975580
- Language: English
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Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora
$26.95 Read more- Author: Manyika, Sarah Ladipo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1804440086
- Language: English
