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
$27.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1642501603
- Language: English
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Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
$18.95 Read moreDriving While Black demonstrates that the car–the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility–has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the da
- Author: Sorin, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 29, 2020
- ISBN10: 163149869X
- Language: English
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
$19.99 Add to cart“An elegant and expansive history” (New York Times) of African American women’s pursuit of political power–and how it transformed America
In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Ma- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600258
- Language: English
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Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community
$19.95 Read moreBetween 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun’s plantation house stil
- Series: Humanities and Public Life
- Author: Thomas, Rhondda Robinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 02, 2020
- ISBN10: 1609387406
- Language: English
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
$12.95 Read moreOne of the most memorable speeches in American history, Frederick Douglass’s What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? is now available in an elegant hardcover edition. Douglass first delivered the fam… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1429095636
- Language: English
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The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey: From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop
$20.00 Add to cartWhen I navigate the currents of the soul, I find myself within my ancestral pool. I find myself swimming in their grief, and the longing during the great event and initiation called the Middle Passage
- Author: Bishop, Orland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 03 2017
- ISBN10: 158420964X
- Language: English
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Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
$18.99 Add to cartJoin award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.
For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place w
- Author: Hall, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063271974
- Language: English
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
$18.95 Add to cartWhat began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defian
- Author: Hinton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092009
- Language: English
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
$20.99 Add to cartA brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s–“Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who love… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1501122428
- Language: English
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The Spirituals and the Blues – 50th Anniversary Edition
$20.00 Add to cart“The power of song in the struggle for Black survival–that is what the spirituals and the blues are about.” James H. Cone revolutionized American theology with the publication in 1969 and 1970 of his… [more below]
- Author: James, Cone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1626984816
- Language: English
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Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South
$21.99 Add to cartMen and women who carried the mantle of African healing and spirituality in the Mid-South were frequently accused and attacked for their misunderstood culture. The same healers and spiritual workers f… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Kail, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1467139890
- Language: English
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The Weeping Time
$25.00 Add to cartIn 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation… [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Anne C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1316643484
- Language: English
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African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence
$84.95 Add to cartCourage, resilience and triumph! Celebrating the African American experience, the extraordinary people, and their profound influence on American history!
African Americans helped build the United Stat
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Bracks, Lean’tin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1578598311
- Language: English
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Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
$21.95 Read moreTwenty Dollars and Change places Harriet Tubman’s life and legacy in a long tradition of resistance, illuminating the ongoing struggle to realize a democracy in which her emancipatory vision prevails.
- Author: Lusane, Clarence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868850
- Language: English
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Before the Mayflower; A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962
$20.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: June 18 2020
- ISBN10: 3584749972
- Language: English
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A Story Untold
$19.95 Add to cartA Story Untold was born in a classroom in Clarke Central High School in 1971. An 18-year-old Michael Thurmond was a member of the first graduating class of the newly-consolidated Clarke Central, a mer
- Author: Thurmond, Michael L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1947309838
- Language: English
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
$24.99 Add to cart“Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-… [more below]
- Author: Shih, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585551
- Language: English
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Days of Fear: A Lynching in St. Petersburg
$17.95 Add to cartDays of Fear exposes the shocking story of a gruesome 1914 murder in St. Petersburg, Florida and the calculated lynching of the Black man accused. Who killed Frank Sherman with a shotgun blast inches
- Author: Wilson, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1940300738
- Language: English
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
$18.95 Read moreA groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities in early America that “reminds us of the cold calculus at the intersection of slavery and capitalism” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Searing, revelatory, and vita… [more below]- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0807067148
- Language: English
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and ins… [more below]
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1984854992
- Language: English
