Topical/Black History
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Gifted Hands 20th Anniversary Edition: The Ben Carson Story
$29.99 Add to cartGifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Chi
- Author: Carson, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0310332907
- Language: English
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Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
$18.99 Add to cartJoin award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.
For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place w
- Author: Hall, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063271974
- Language: English
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
$18.95 Add to cartWhat began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defian
- Author: Hinton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092009
- Language: English
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Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets
$22.95 Add to cart“Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging…potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit.”–Washington Post
“Terrifying and fearlessly inventive.”–New York Times- Author: Coleman, Wanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1574232533
- Language: English
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
$20.99 Add to cartA brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s–“Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who love… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1501122428
- Language: English
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A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till
$18.99 Read moreThe last surviving witness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with poignant recollections of Emmett as a boy, critical insights into the recent investigation, and powerful lessons for rac… [more below]
- Author: Parker, Wheeler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593134281
- Language: English
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The Spirituals and the Blues – 50th Anniversary Edition
$20.00 Add to cart“The power of song in the struggle for Black survival–that is what the spirituals and the blues are about.” James H. Cone revolutionized American theology with the publication in 1969 and 1970 of his… [more below]
- Author: James, Cone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1626984816
- Language: English
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Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
$6.00 Add to cartIn 1937, Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and one of the most controversial figures in the history of race relations, assembled his most trusted organizers to impa… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0486842797
- Language: English
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Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South
$21.99 Add to cartMen and women who carried the mantle of African healing and spirituality in the Mid-South were frequently accused and attacked for their misunderstood culture. The same healers and spiritual workers f… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Kail, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1467139890
- Language: English
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Message To The People Hardcover
$33.00 Add to cartThis fascinating distillation of a great leader’s experience is published here
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1639234101
- Language: English
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (Loa #350): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Whichblack Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstructdemocracy i
$45.00 Add to cartA definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War’s aftermath and the legacy of racism in America
Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois’s now classi- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1097
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1598537032
- Language: English
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Michelle Obama: Quotes to Live by: A Life-Affirming Collection of More Than 170 Quotes
$9.95 Read moreA life-affirming collection of more than 170 quotes from one of the world’s most admired and respected public figures: Michelle Obama.
“People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly
- Series: Little Book Of… #2
- Author: Hippo, Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1787392902
- Language: English
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Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
$18.99 Add to cart“I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency falt
- Author: Rieder, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1620400596
- Language: English
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The Weeping Time
$25.00 Add to cartIn 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation… [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Anne C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1316643484
- Language: English
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All God’s Children: How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity
$19.99 Add to cartThe more you understand someone’s history, the better you can see their humanity. This is true for individuals as well as for society at large. Race relations have suffered because of the erasure of i
- Author: Lester, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1514005956
- Language: English
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African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence
$84.95 Add to cartCourage, resilience and triumph! Celebrating the African American experience, the extraordinary people, and their profound influence on American history!
African Americans helped build the United Stat
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Bracks, Lean’tin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1578598311
- Language: English
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The Gist of Bid Whist: The Culturally-Rich Card Game from Black America
$18.00 Add to cartThe world’s greatest card game awaits you.
Combining the strategic engagement of Bridge and the risk-taking swagger of Poker, Bid Whist has captivated luminaries like Justice Thurgood Marshall, Michae
- Author: Jones, Lamont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987407639
- Language: English
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Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
$25.00 Add to cartThe 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams’s celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Mont- Series: Eyes on the Prize
- Author: Williams, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124749
- Language: English
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Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
$21.95 Read moreTwenty Dollars and Change places Harriet Tubman’s life and legacy in a long tradition of resistance, illuminating the ongoing struggle to realize a democracy in which her emancipatory vision prevails.
- Author: Lusane, Clarence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868850
- Language: English
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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
$33.82 Read moreA “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times Book Review
“Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.”
—Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Leona- Author: Clark, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1620971860
- Language: English
