African American & Black
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Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
$29.95 Read moreBreach of Peace is a photo-history told in images old and new. The book includes the mug shots of all 329 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, along with contemporary portraits of 99 Rider… [more below]
- Author: Etheridge, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0826521908
- Language: English
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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
$19.99 Read moreWinner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book Award
In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city’s soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and- Author: Wells, Jonathan Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1645030334
- Language: English
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I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader
$21.95 Add to cartI Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader is a timely and essential collection of the many works of Professor Gerald Horne–a historian who has made an indelible impact on the study of US and international hi
- Author: Horne, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1682193632
- Language: English
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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
$32.95 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon’s enslaved workers, who left few written records but made up 90 perc
- Author: Thompson, Mary V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0813941849
- Language: English
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Claiming Sunday: The Story of a Texas Slave Community
$29.95 Add to cartAn inspiring story of human souls who survived the dehumanizing system of slavery in the Old South, Claiming Sunday also provides important keys to comprehending modern racial relations in a more enl
- Author: Snider, Joleene Maddox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0875658253
- Language: English
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The Red Record
$6.99 Add to cartIda B. Wells exposes a series of racially-motivated acts that disproportionately affect African Americans and is overwhelmingly ignored by a majority white criminal justice system. It’s crucial docume
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1513271032
- Language: English
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
$35.40 Add to cartThis “well-told and inspiring”story (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is the monumental product of Lillian Smith Book Award-winning author Vanessa Siddle Walker’s two-decade investigation into the c
- Author: Walker, Vanessa Siddle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976021
- Language: English
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Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles
$23.99 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 Is
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Roberts, Amy Lotson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1467141186
- Language: English
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion
$17.99 Add to cart“A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America’s history.” —New York Times
The definitive account of the most infamous slave rebellion in history and the af
- Author: Oates, Stephen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0062656554
- Language: English
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Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862
$39.95 Add to cartAccording to an Akan proverb, “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.” This belief underlies historian Amy Tanner Thiriot’s work in Slavery in Zion, which combines genealogical … [more below]
- Author: Thiriot, Amy Tanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1647690854
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
$32.00 Read moreThe inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs
In The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestsell
- Author: Green, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675630
- Language: English
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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
$23.95 Read moreThis entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs–many never before seen–as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by Afri… [more below]
- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: September 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1682752267
- Language: English
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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
$29.99 Read moreThe companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021
With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric
- Author: Conwill, Kinshasha Holman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0063160641
- Language: English
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Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
$17.99 Read moreNAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist
2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree
The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit–a blend of memoir, l
- Author: Boyd, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346636
- Language: English
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The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City’s Search for Justice
$18.00 Add to cartHousatonic Book Award Winner
Longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and Stowe Prize
One of The New York Times’ “11 New- Author: Ellsworth, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0593182995
- Language: English
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We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality
$24.95 Read moreIn this exceedingly timely book, Louis Moore looks at the history of Black activist athletes and the important role of the Black community in insisting that the concept of fair play should apply not o
- Series: Race and Sports
- Author: Moore, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0813153808
- Language: English
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
$20.00 Add to cartThis “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South–and their daring attempt to es… [more below]
- Author: Bell, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1501169440
- Language: English
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Reflections by Rosa Parks: The Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation
$16.99 Read moreOn December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of the social injustice. Yet, her simple
- Author: Parks, Rosa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0310367409
- Language: English
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
$4.99 Add to cartWhat to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a speech by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Frederick Douglass became a prominent orator and autobiograp
- Series: Mint Editions–Black Narratives
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: April 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1513290975
- Language: English
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Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music
$49.95 Add to cartThis major new title builds out of Musical Crossroads, one of the 12 permanent exhibitions at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, to present a vibrantly illustrated exploratio
- Author: Reece, Dwandalyn R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1911282875
- Language: English
