Topical/Black History
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Those Who Labor for My Happiness: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
$27.95 Add to cartOur perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view
- Series: Jeffersonian America
- Author: Stanton, Lucia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0813932238
- Language: English
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Riot and Remembrance: America’s Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy
$18.99 Add to cartWith a new preface, a “profound, chilling, and heartbreaking, contribution to American history” that investigates the causes of the twentieth century’s deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarr
- Author: Hirsch, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0618340769
- Language: English
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
$22.99 Add to cartFor a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial etiquet
- Author: Packard, Jerrold M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031230241X
- Language: English
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Dark Sons
$12.99 Add to cartA guy whose father ripped his heart out too.
You and me, Ishmael, we’re brothers, two dark sons.
Destroyed, lost, and isolated, the perspectives of two teenage boys–modern-day Sam, and biblical Ishmae
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0310761506
- Language: English
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Gruesome Looking Objects: A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things
$48.17 Add to cartThe 1898 lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer is retold in this groundbreaking book. Unlike other histories of lynching that rely on conventional historical records, this study focuses on the objects… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
- Author: Gaddis, Elijah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1316514021
- Language: English
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Against All Tides: The Untold Story of the USS Kitty Hawk Race Riot
$28.99 Read moreSimmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air strikes off the coast of North Vietnam.
T- Author: Truhe, Marv
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 164160784X
- Language: English
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The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The True Story of America’s First Black World Champion
$16.95 Read moreBorn in 1878, bicycle racer Marshall “Major” Taylor became the first Black sports star to become a global celebrity when he won the world cycling championship in 1899. Throughout his bike-racing caree… [more below]
- Series: 5-Minute Therapy
- Author: Lugo Phd Adonia E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1648411320
- Language: English
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Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider
$22.00 Add to cartA firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward—written by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s pioneers.
At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the origin- Author: Person, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 125083676X
- Language: English
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Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
$64.95 Add to cartA celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride
The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of th
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Smith, Jessie Carney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1578596882
- Language: English
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The Color of Compromise Study Guide: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
$14.99 Add to cartRacism is one of the most polarizing conversations in our world and in the church. But it’s a topic that the church can and must take part in.
In this twelve-session study (DVD/streaming video sold se
- Author: Tisby, Jemar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0310114837
- Language: English
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Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
$24.95 Read moreFor many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under Jim Crow seg
- Author: Pilgrim, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1629631140
- Language: English
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Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Vermont
$21.99 Add to cartMany believe that support for the abolition of slavery was universally accepted in Vermont, but it was actually a fiercely divisive issue that rocked the Green Mountain State. In the midst of turbulen… [more below]
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Sherburne, Michelle Arnosky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1626190380
- Language: English
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Unexampled Courage
$18.00 Add to cart*The book that inspired the 2021 PBS American Experience documentary, The Blinding of Isaac Woodard.*
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How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America’s civil rights history.- Author: Gergel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1250251265
- Language: English
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KWANZAA A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture: Fact Book Second Edition 2022
$8.99 Add to cartMs. Tamu Chambers is a professor of sociology and ethnic studies. In her writing, she addresses social behavior, social and political institutions regarding ethical values from sociological and philos… [more below]
- Author: Chambers, Tamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: December 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1956691065
- Language: English
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Nigger: An Autobiography
$20.00 Add to cartComedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory’s million-copy-plus bestselling memoir–now in trade paperback for the first time.
“Powerful and ugly and beautiful…a moving story of a man who deeply- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0593086147
- Language: English
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Stokely: A Life
$21.99 Read moreFrom the author of The Sword and the Shield, this definitive biography of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael offers “an unflinching look at an unflinching man” (Daily Beast).
Stokely Carmich- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0465065589
- Language: English
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They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
$36.00 Add to cartA deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in A… [more below]
- Author: Lowery, Wesley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316312479
- Language: English
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Madison Park: A Place of Hope
$19.99 Add to cartWelcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determ
- Author: Motley, Eric L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0310356962
- Language: English
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I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography
$19.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial j- Author: Thompson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 125061936X
- Language: English
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White Men’s Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism
$36.99 Add to cartA searing–and sobering–account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans ‘in their place’ from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men … [more below]
- Author: Irons, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190914947
- Language: English
