Topical/Black History
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Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
$19.99 Add to cartThe story of Charles Henry Turner, the first Black entomologist — a scientist who studies bugs — is told in this fascinating book for young readers.
Can spiders learn? How do ants find their way hom- Author: Harrington, Janice N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1629795585
- Language: English
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Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
$29.95 Read more- Author: Seale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 429
- Publish Date: November 15 1996
- ISBN10: 093312130X
- Language: English
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Pow
$20.00 Add to cartHere is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor–a story that reinterprets the history of America’s civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against B… [more below]
- Author: McGuire, Danielle L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0307389243
- Language: English
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The New Fight for Life: Roe, Race, and a Pro-Life Commitment to Justice
$24.99 Read moreThe battle over the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade may be over, but now a bigger fight lies ahead.
For over half a century, pro-life advocates have fought to protect the sanctity of human life. Now … [more below]
- Author: Watson, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1496481437
- Language: English
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We Will Be Free: The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth
$29.99 Read moreChristianity Today Book Award of Merit in History/Biography (2024)
Sojourner Truth’s powerful voice calls to us through this evocative narrative of faith in action–and her words are more relevant tha- Series: Library of Religious Biography (Lrb)
- Author: Koester, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0802872476
- Language: English
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One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
$18.99 Read moreOne Last Word is the work of a master poet. –Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover
From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grime- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1619635542
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$29.95 Read more“A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.”
“The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who’s Black and Why? contain a world of ideas–theo
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0674244265
- Language: English
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I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters
$35.00 Add to cartBAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, o
- Author: Rustin, Bayard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 516
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0872865789
- Language: English
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Quilt of Souls: A Memoir
$24.99 Read moreThe Yellow House meets Hidden in Plain View in this multigenerational memoir that celebrates African American quilting, family, and honoring the past.
At age four, Phyllis Biffle Elmore was plucked of- Author: Biffle Elmore, Phyllis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1623545161
- Language: English
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Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
$18.99 Read moreFrom Children’s Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance–paired with fu
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1681199440
- Language: English
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Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers
$19.99 Read more“An exceptionally well-researched, lovingly crafted, and important tribute to unsung American heroes.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are- Series: Junior Library Guild Selection
- Author: Stone, Tanya Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0763665487
- Language: English
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The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers
$28.95 Add to cartIn January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn them into the U.S. Navy’s first African-American office
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Stillwell, Paul L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 14, 2003
- ISBN10: 1591148405
- Language: English
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Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
$34.00 Add to cartWidely recognized as “one of the nation’s foremost scholars on the slave era” (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in sl
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: November 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1595581731
- Language: English
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
$19.99 Read moreJoining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and nat
- Author: Austen, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0062235079
- Language: English
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The New Fight for Life: Roe, Race, and a Pro-Life Commitment to Justice
$17.99 Read moreThe battle over the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade may be over, but now a bigger fight lies ahead.
For over half a century, pro-life advocates have fought to protect the sanctity of human life. Now … [more below]
- Author: Watson, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1496481445
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk: Original Classic Edition
$19.95 Add to cartThis classic groundbreaking work of American literature first published in 1903 is a cornerstone of African-American literary history and a seminal work in the field of sociology.
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1722502908
- Language: English
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The Jefferson City Civil Pilots: From Lincoln University to Tuskegee Airmen
$24.99 Read moreAviation captivated young men before World War II, regardless of their skin color. But few Black enthusiasts had access, means or opportunity until the Civil Pilot Training program. Lincoln University… [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: Brooks, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154490
- Language: English
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Rosa Parks
$12.79 Read moreThe My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Rosa Parks in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and r… [more below]
- Series: My Itty-Bitty Bio
- Author: Haldy, Emma E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1634706013
- Language: English
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The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
$19.99 Read moreOne 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1250787696
- Language: English
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We Will Be Free: The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth
$29.99 Read moreChristianity Today Book Award of Merit in History/Biography (2024)
Sojourner Truth’s powerful voice calls to us through this evocative narrative of faith in action–and her words are more relevant tha- Series: Library of Religious Biography (Lrb)
- Author: Koester, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0802872476
- Language: English
