History - United States - 20th Century
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Those Who Saw the Sun
$12.99 Add to cartA stunning collection of oral histories from Black elders who grew up in the Jim Crow South
The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our present- Author: Avery, Jaha Nailah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1646144627
- Language: English
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Freedom! the Story of the Black Panther Party
$12.99 Read moreBooklist Editors’ Choice
WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World
WINNER – International Literacy Association (ILA) – Young Adult Nonfiction
HONOR – 2023 Malka Penn A- Author: Martin, Jetta Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1646144104
- Language: English
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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
$19.99 Add to cartHow did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit “revolutionary suicide” by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes … [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Candace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593480066
- Language: English
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Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
$12.99 Add to cartRevised and updated with new information, this Jane Adams award winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement.
The kidnapping and violent mu- Author: Crowe, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 045147872X
- Language: English
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Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
$22.95 Read moreThis latest edition in Triangle Square’s For Young People series is a gripping account of the summer that changed America.
In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student- Author: Watson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 164421010X
- Language: English
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Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown V. Board of Education (Scholastic Focus)
$18.99 Read moreCritically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone offers an affecting portrait of the road to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which significantly shaped the United States and effectively e… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1338592831
- Language: English
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20th Century American History for Teens: Understanding the Movements, Policies, and Events that Changed Our World
$12.99 Add to cartExplore the most important moments of the 20th century in this history book for teens
Help teens learn how the United States grew into one of the world’s most influential countries. This 100-year jour
- Series: History for Teens
- Author: Cagle, Carrie Floyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1648762239
- Language: English
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
$14.99 Add to cartFilled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating book by an award-winning author looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social
- Author: Blumenthal, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1250034272
- Language: English
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A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
$19.99 Read moreThis mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of cul
- Author: Hartfield, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0358667992
- Language: English
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The Burning (Young Readers Edition): Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
$16.99 Add to cartOne of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The- Author: Madigan, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1250878640
- Language: English
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Jane Against the World: Roe V. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
$18.99 Add to cartA riveting look at the tumultuous history of abortion rights in the United States leading up to the landmark case of Roe v. Wade, by award-winning author and journalist Karen Blumenthal.
Tracing the p- Author: Blumenthal, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 125082060X
- Language: English
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Marked Man: Frank Serpico’s Inside Battle Against Police Corruption
$21.99 Read more1971. Brooklyn, New York. Undercover cop Frank Serpico is knocking on a drug dealer’s door. His partners are there to back him up, but when the door opens, he’s staring down the barrel of a gun–and h
- Author: Florio, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 125062195X
- Language: English
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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre /]Cbrandy Colbert
$19.99 Add to cartA searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa
- Author: Colbert, Brandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0063056666
- Language: English
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
$12.99 Add to cartA memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes–now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide.
As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgom- Author: Lowery, Lynda Blackmon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0147512166
- Language: English
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Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment (Scholastic Focus)
$21.99 Read moreIn another unrelenting look at the iniquities of the American justice system, Lawrence Goldstone, acclaimed author of Unpunished Murder, Stolen Justice, and Separate No More, examines the history of r… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1338722468
- Language: English
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Freedom! the Story of the Black Panther Party
$19.99 Add to cartBooklist Editors’ Choice
WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World Knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than- Author: Martin, Jetta Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1646140931
- Language: English
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The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue
$8.99 Add to cartThis adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman tells the story of the shipwreck of two oil
- Series: True Rescue
- Author: Tougias, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 08, 2015
- ISBN10: 1250044235
- Language: English
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The Monster’s Bones (Young Readers Edition): The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: socialite Henry Fairfield Osborn and int
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: 15-Aug-23
- ISBN10: 1324015500
- Language: English
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Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
$19.99 Add to cartNYPL BEST OF THE YEAR
A stunning collection of oral histories from Black elders who grew up in the Jim Crow South The past is not p
BEST OF THE BEST, BLACK CAUCUS OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION- Author: Avery, Jaha Nailah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646142446
- Language: English
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Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents a follow up to his award-winning book Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, taking readers on a terrifying jo
- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1250149010
- Language: English
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