Topical/Black History
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The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend” (Publishers Weekly)–the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world’s fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Cro… [more below]
- Author: Kranish, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1501192604
- Language: English
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Built by Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond
$33.99 Add to cartRichmond’s vast and varied collection of architecture provides an archive of African American history. Author Selden Richardson explains how iconic symbols of old Richmond and the generations of black… [more below]
- Author: Richardson, Selden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1540218686
- Language: English
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A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
$19.99 Read moreThis mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of cul
- Author: Hartfield, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0358667992
- Language: English
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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England
$25.95 Add to cartShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, … [more below]
- Author: Hardesty, Jared Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1625344570
- Language: English
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The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 with a Comprehensive Chronology of Missions and Events
$28.95 Add to cartMany documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have … [more below]
- Author: Caver, Joseph D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1588382443
- Language: English
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
$21.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s “searing” (Wall Street Journal) account of America’s internal slave trade–and its role in the making of America
Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of- Author: Rothman, Joshua D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 154161660X
- Language: English
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign
$19.95 Add to cartMemphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic “plantation mentality” embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked… [more below]
- Author: Honey, Michael K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330532
- Language: English
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100 Amazing Facts about the Negro
$40.00 Read moreThe first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.'” Rogers’s little book wa… [more below]
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0307908712
- Language: English
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Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music
$49.95 Add to cartThis major new title builds out of Musical Crossroads, one of the 12 permanent exhibitions at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, to present a vibrantly illustrated exploratio
- Author: Reece, Dwandalyn R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1911282875
- Language: English
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
$20.00 Add to cartOne of TIME‘s 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping’s Best Books of the Year
“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”–Book Riot
Now in paperback and featuring a new aft
- Author: Jerkins, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0062873067
- Language: English
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Invisible Men: Life in Baseball’s Negro Leagues
$19.95 Add to cartThis fascinating book is a milestone in baseball scholarship.–Ken Burns
Jackie Robinson was a Negro Leaguer before he became a Major Leaguer. So too were Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Roy C
- Author: Rogosin, Donn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 149622339X
- Language: English
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Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (a Pivotal Event in the History o
$27.95 Add to cartThe Story Behind an Unsung Event in the Civil Rights Movement
“Over eight days, eight students sparked change that defined their lives, changed an institution and fueled a movement that continues today
- Author: Allman Maye, Marilyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1642501603
- Language: English
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For the Least of These
$15.99 Add to cartA long white line runs down the center of the main corridor at Soledad State Prison. I walked that line every day. This facility, located in the Salinas Valley of California, housed three thousand inm
- Author: Winn, Fred A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 064533703X
- Language: English
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The War Is Here: Newark 1967
$50.00 Read moreWith a foreword by the Honorable Ras J. Baraka, 40th Mayor of Newark, NJ, The War Is Here is Life magazine photographer Bud Lee’s dramatic, empathetic, and still shocking record of the Newark uprising… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Bud
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1736309366
- Language: English
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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
$32.00 Add to cartThis book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful be… [more below]
- Author: Glymph, Thavolia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0521703980
- Language: English
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Historically Black: American Icons Who Attended Hbcus
$26.00 Read moreA vibrant collection of biographies and illustrated portraits that capture the brilliance of more than thirty American icons, Historically Black is a celebration of Black excellence in fields ranging … [more below]
- Author: Vereen, Alonzo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0762480327
- Language: English
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Soul City
$30.99 Add to cart“One of the greatest least-told stories in American history. . . . Healy does an excellent job recounting the details.”
In 1969, with America’s inner cities in turmoil
–The New York Times Book Review- Author: Healy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250811260
- Language: English
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Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
$35.00 Add to cartSince the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voi
- Author: Beckles, Hilary MCD
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2013
- ISBN10: 976640268X
- Language: English
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Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Jewish Community
$18.99 Add to cartBrings to life the impressive, surprising, and long-neglected history of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s efforts in support of the Jewish community.
- Author: Shneier, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1580232736
- Language: English
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Voices from St. Simons: Personal Narratives of an Island’s Past
$22.95 Add to cartExcerpts from interviews with 17 people whose connection to St. Simons Island, GA, tells the story of the island’s heritage.
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Doster, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 259
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0895873575
- Language: English
