Topical/Black History
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Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality
$22.50 Add to cartA concise overview of 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity, from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Vi… [more below]
- Author: Sherry, Karen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1911282999
- Language: English
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Sittin’ in: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s
$45.00 Read moreA rare collection of more than 200 full-color and black-and-white souvenir photographs and memorabilia that bring to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, compiled by Grammy Award-
- Author: Gold, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0062914707
- Language: English
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Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition
$39.95 Add to cartHow W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in America
At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologi
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1942884532
- Language: English
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The Story of Motown
$17.95 Read more- In 2018, ITV Studios and Reelz will release a documentary about the Supremes on which Peter Benjaminson will appear
- Also in 2018, CNN will broadcast a four-part series about Detroit in 1963. Benjaminso
- Author: Benjaminson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 13, 2018
- ISBN10: 1947856235
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson
$10.00 Add to cartThe year was 1947. A talented young minor-league baseball player was called up to the majors to join the Brooklyn Dodgers. But this was no ordinary man, nor any simple achievement. This was Jackie Rob
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Schuster, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1936846713
- Language: English
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The Forgotten League: A History of Negro League Baseball
$14.99 Add to cartRube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard…they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; the
- Series: History Shorts #2
- Author: Foster, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1621073807
- Language: English
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Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes
$36.99 Add to cartExplore accounts of Oklahoma’s Freedmen as told by their descendants in these stories of resistance and resilience on the Western frontier.
The Freedmen of Oklahoma were black people, both enslaved and
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Walton-Raji, Angela Y.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257924
- Language: English
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Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West
$24.95 Add to cartThe Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most difficult wars against western Indians. Examining their
- Author: Schubert, Frank N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0826323103
- Language: English
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We Got By: A Black Family’s Journey in the Heartland
$26.95 Add to cartLife along the color line in rural Ohio was hard. Being Black often meant feeling frightened and alone. For a family like Ric S. Sheffield’s, examining this reality closely meant confronting challenge… [more below]
- Series: Trillium Books
- Author: Sheffield, Ric S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0814258425
- Language: English
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Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995
$24.95 Add to cartAfrican American have lived in Texas for more than four hundred years–longer than in any other region of the United States. Beginning with the arrival of the first African American in 1528, Alwyn Bar
- Author: Barr, Alwyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15 1996
- ISBN10: 080612878X
- Language: English
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History
$18.99 Add to cartIn an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters
- Author: Gaddy, Kristina R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074485
- Language: English
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The Class of 1968: A Thread through Time
$33.95 Add to cartBorn in the late 1940’s and early 50’s and raised in a segregated town in southern Mississippi, a group of Black girls and boys came of age together, and graduated from high school in Hattiesburg as “
- Author: Townsend Gaines, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: February 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1646287304
- Language: English
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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
$24.00 Add to cartWhen it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Cox, Karen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662671
- Language: English
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His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
$30.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1984855026
- Language: English
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The Tarboro Three: Rape, Race, and Secrecy
$18.00 Add to cartOn an August evening in the summer of 1973 in Tarboro, North Carolina a young woman walking alone was offered a ride by three young men. All of their lives were changed dramatically as the ensuing eve
- Author: Lampkin, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1732932808
- Language: English
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Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962
$29.99 Add to cartThe black experience in America–starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961–is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of A
- Author: Bennett, Lerone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115353
- Language: English
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
$25.48 Read moreRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle
Nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, a groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in
- Author: Bell, Janet Dewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975580
- Language: English
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St. Petersburg’s Historic African American Neighborhoods
$21.99 Add to cartPepper Town, Methodist Town, the Gas Plant district and the 22nd Street South community–these once segregated neighborhoods were built by African Americans in the face of injustice. The resilient peo… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Peck, Rosalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2008
- ISBN10: 1596292792
- Language: English
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To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
$17.95 Read morePriscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her pare
- Author: Emberton, Carole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050276
- Language: English
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Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
$25.00 Add to cartBefore the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade … [more below]
- Series: Studies in Legal History
- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1316604721
- Language: English
