African American & Black
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
$35.00 Add to cartEmmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett T
- Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media
- Author: Anderson, Devery S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1496814770
- Language: English
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
$20.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.
“Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” –Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1984880357
- Language: English
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The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration
$27.99 Read moreA multigenerational story of hope and resilience, The Garretts of Columbia is an American history of Black struggle, sacrifice, and achievement.
At the heart of David Nicholson’s beautifully written an
- Author: Nicholson, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 09, 2024
- ISBN10: 1643364545
- Language: English
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The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
$27.00 Add to cartOne of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction
In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historia- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600746
- Language: English
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When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World
$18.99 Add to cartThe triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre–and the world–forever.
“This musical introduced Black excellence to the Great White Way. Broadway was forever c
- Author: Gaines, Caseen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1728259398
- Language: English
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
$19.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0306926091
- Language: English
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Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956
$29.95 Add to cartThe Gullah culture, though borne of isolation and slavery, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today, and nowhere more prominently than on Hilton Head Island, SC. O
- Author: Barnwell, Thomas C., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: February 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 1949467074
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight
$50.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning photojournalist Richard Frishman comes a collection of photographs documenting America’s history of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism hidden in plain sight, accompanied
- Author: Frishman, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250831687
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
$35.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book, Overground Railroad is the first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists used for decades when trav… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Candacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1419738178
- Language: English
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Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge st… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Nikki M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: July 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 1009276840
- Language: English
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
$15.99 Add to cartDick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelon
- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0062448714
- Language: English
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
$18.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space–a powerful, revel
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 5, 2017
- ISBN10: 0062677284
- Language: English
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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
$19.99 Add to cartA searing and “magisterial” (Cornel West, New York Times-bestselling author of Democracy Matters) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 6, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619587
- Language: English
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Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
$29.99 Add to cartA timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell’s Faces at the Bottom of the Well, one of the country’s foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and vital new framework going beyond t
- Author: Hunter, Marcus Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063004720
- Language: English
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
$30.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0306926075
- Language: English
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Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football
$32.00 Read moreAn acclaimed sportswriter offers an inside look at the Black quarterbacks whose skill and grit transformed the NFL
In Rocket Men, John Eisenberg offers the definitive history of Black quarterbacks in
- Author: Eisenberg, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600401
- Language: English
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You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
$30.00 Read moreFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign–ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.
It- Author: Kix, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250807697
- Language: English
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Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
$29.99 Read moreAn evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor’s Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their desce
- Author: Tabor, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250766540
- Language: English
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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
$30.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
“Powerful and deeply moving.”–Los Angeles Times * Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History’s Stone Book Award * National Council on- Author: Williams, Kidada E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 17-Jan-23
- ISBN10: 1635576636
- Language: English
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The Black Box: Writing the Race
$30.00 Add to cart“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity,
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593299787
- Language: English
