Topical/Black History
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African American Religions, 1500-2000
$49.58 Add to cartThis book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and colonialism over several centuries to explain the rela… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Sylvester A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 438
- Publish Date: August 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0521157005
- Language: English
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The Town That Started the Civil War
$19.00 Add to cartBefore the War Between the States, there was the war between the U.S. government and Oberlin, Ohio. . . .
“A fascinating, gripping narrative.”–James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
On a- Author: Brandt, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: July 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0440503965
- Language: English
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The Betrayal of the Negro, from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson
$24.99 Add to cartBetween the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the end of World War I in 1918, African Americans experienced their nadir. The Betrayal of the Negro (originally published as The Negro in American Life a… [more below]
- Author: Logan, Rayford W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306807580
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a masterpiece of American literature, a foundational text of sociology, and a deeply personal answer to the question “What is it like to be a Black
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172817
- Language: English
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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
$35.00 Add to cartRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes.
American taxation is unfair, an- Author: Kahrl, Andrew W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 24 2024
- ISBN10: 022673059X
- Language: English
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Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
$18.99 Read moreBestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton brings to light the stories of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement, drawing on his unique perspective in the history of the fight for social justice
- Author: Sharpton, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1335449647
- Language: English
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Unbroken and Unbowed: A History of Black Protest in America
$30.00 Add to cartIn this compelling and informative volume, Jimmie R. Hawkins walks the reader through the many forms of Black protest in American history, from pre-colonial times though the George Floyd protests of 2
- Author: Hawkins, Jimmie R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0664267378
- Language: English
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A Lynched Black Wall Street
$30.00 Add to cartThis book remembers one hundred years since Black Wall Street and it reflects on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Black Wall Street was the most successful Black business district in the United States; y… [more below]
- Author: Eulinberg, Jerrolyn S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1725296039
- Language: English
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To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University
$21.95 Add to cartLaw professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of
- Author: Kapur, Geeta N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 385
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 194946752X
- Language: English
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Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles
$31.99 Add to cartThe Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage. Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest of slavery, the slave ship Wanderer landed on Jekyll I… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Amy Lotson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1540240096
- Language: English
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Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
$25.95 Add to cartONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST–The New York Times and Washington Post
A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality–here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people’s poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman- Author: Coleman, Wanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1574232371
- Language: English
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Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche (Book on Black History, Gift for Women, African American History, and for Readers of Titan
$16.95 Add to cartWho was Joseph Laroche, the only black passenger on board the Titanic? Where was he going? How did he end up on the ship? It’s a story never before told. The Only Black Man on the Titanic is definitel… [more below]
- Author: Bile, Serge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 163353958X
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$19.99 Read moreRestless Classics presents The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois’s seminal work of sociology, with searing insights into our complex, corrosive relationship with race and the African-American cons
- Series: Restless Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1632060973
- Language: English
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A Day I Ain’t Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi
$22.95 Add to cartThe Black people of Marks, Mississippi, and other rural southern towns were the backbone of the civil rights movement, yet their stories have too rarely been celebrated and are, for the most part, for
- Author: Bateman, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820363049
- Language: English
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recogniti- Author: Jarrett, Gene Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254761
- Language: English
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Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions
$28.00 Add to cartNew Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Author: Johnson, Rashauna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1107591163
- Language: English
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The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition
$24.95 Add to cartThe story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles.
At once a history for understanding fascism and a
- Author: Hope, Jeanelle K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888900949
- Language: English
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Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
$19.99 Add to cartA family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present.
In 1791,- Author: Webster, Rachel Jamison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1250871808
- Language: English
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Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations
$14.95 Add to cartDuring the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sent workers to interview over 2,200 former slaves about their experiences during slavery and the time immediately after the Civil War. The intervie
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Tanner, Lynette Ater
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0895876264
- Language: English
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
$15.95 Add to cart“A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander’s The N
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Abu-Jamal, Mumia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 872867382
- Language: English
