Topical/Black History
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Bronzeville Nights: On the Town in Chicago’s Black Metropolis
$29.95 Read moreBronzeville was once America’s most vibrant Black community–next to Harlem. Nightclubs, dance halls, rialtos, and jazz and blues joints lined the streets of Chicago’s South Side. Not much is left. A
- Author: Dubin, Steven C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1733869026
- Language: English
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Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania
$23.99 Add to cartAuthor and journalist Cody McDevitt tells the story of one of the worst civil rights injustices in Western Pennsylvania history.
In 1923, in response to the fatal shooting of four policemen, the mayor
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: McDevitt, Cody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1467142743
- Language: English
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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of “welfare queen” Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a “wild, only-in-America story” of pol… [more below]- Author: Levin, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316513288
- Language: English
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Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms
$19.95 Add to cartChronicling the underappreciated black tradition of bearing arms for self-defense, law professor Nicholas Johnson presents an array of examples reaching back to the pre-Civil War era that demonstrate … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 161614839X
- Language: English
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The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman–and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social mov
- Author: Hirshman, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268701
- Language: English
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Historical Black Milwaukee (1950 to 2022): The People, Events, and Institutions that Shaped It
$24.95 Add to cartIn Historical Black Milwaukee (1950-2022), the author illustrates how an African American community grew over time and the people, events, and institutions that shaped Black Milwaukee. He also shows t
- Author: Bonds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans
$34.95 Add to cartIn the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration’s efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down… [more below]
- Author: Cahan, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0991541855
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$29.95 Add to cartSolomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly,
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0807101508
- Language: English
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Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America’s World War II Military
$42.99 Add to cartThe first comprehensive narrative of racism in America’s World War II military and the resistance to it.
America’s World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazi- Author: Guglielmo, Thomas A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0195342658
- Language: English
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
$44.00 Add to cartThis “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America–and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0316278742
- Language: English
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We Fought the Road
$19.95 Add to cartWe Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war
- Author: McClure, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1935347772
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Original Classic Edition): An American Slave
$12.95 Add to cartThis edition of the original classic work, includes an index that will enable you to easily search for the names, places and topics as you discover the brilliance and determination of this incredible … [more below]
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1722502266
- Language: English
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The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard: Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Committee
$21.95 Read moreHarvard’s searing and sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination.
In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships be- Author: Presidential Committee on the Legacy of
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0674292405
- Language: English
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Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana
$23.99 Read moreDust and Determination After the Civil War, emancipated slaves who didn’t want to pick cotton or operate an elevator headed west to find work and a new life. Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove … [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Williams, Mrs Nancy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153648
- Language: English
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Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History
$34.95 Add to cartJournalists began to call the Korean War “the Forgotten War” even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already neglected war is that of African Americans who served just … [more below]
- Author: Cline, David P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1469664534
- Language: English
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The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland
$19.99 Add to cart“Thompson-Hern ndez’s portrayal of Compton’s black cowboys broadens our perception of Compton’s young black residents, and connects the Compton Cowboys to the historical legacy of African Americans in
- Author: Thompson-Hernandez, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0062910612
- Language: English
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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
$26.00 Add to cartA narrative history of America’s deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings
After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers bel- Author: McWhirter, Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1250009065
- Language: English
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Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1785, an African American woman, Elizabeth, was sold to her fifth enslaver. She had no idea that Robert Townsend, a son of her first enslaver, would locate her and safeguard her child–nor that Rob
- Author: Bellerjeau, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1493076493
- Language: English
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Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
$22.95 Add to cartBeulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect, pioneers such as Edward P. McCabe championed the id… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0978915038
- Language: English
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Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering
$28.95 Add to cartAn activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan … [more below]
- Author: Freeney Harding, Rosemarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0822358794
- Language: English
