Topical/Black History
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How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
$18.99 Add to cartA breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens, inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones’s viral video “How Can We Win”
“So if I played four- Author: Jones, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1250848830
- Language: English
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and ins… [more below]
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1984854992
- Language: English
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
$30.00 Read moreThe remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia–the free state directly … [more below]
- Author: Diemer, Andrew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593534387
- Language: English
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Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom
$19.99 Read moreFrom the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many African people who were enslaved in North America emancipated themselves and fled into vast swamplands and across colonial borders, beyond the reac
- Author: Kadalie, Modibo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
$17.99 Add to cartMore than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America’s history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reco
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18, 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352196
- Language: English
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Computer Decoder: Dorothy Vaughan, Computer Scientist
$9.95 Add to cartA full-color picture book biography about Dorothy Vaughan, one of NASA’s first African American managers and one of the groundbreakers on the front line of electronic computing–includes hands-on STEM
- Series: Picture Book Biography
- Author: Diehn, Andi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1619307650
- Language: English
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Muhammad Ali
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Muhammad Ali, “the greatest” boxer of all time.
When he wa- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #21
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1786033313
- Language: English
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
$18.00 Read moreAs featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Finalist, Longlisted for the National Book Award, NPR Politics Podcast Book Club Choice
Best Books of the- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1635571391
- Language: English
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Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1921 Tulsa’s Greenwood District, known then as the nation’s “Black Wall Street,” was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a whi… [more below]
- Author: Krehbiel, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0806168714
- Language: English
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1919
$16.00 Add to cartNPR Best Books of 2019
Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2019
Chicago Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2019
O Magazine Best Books by Women of Summer 2019
The Millions Must-Read Poetry of June 2019
LitH- Author: Ewing, Eve L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1608465985
- Language: English
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Unbought and Unbossed
$17.99 Add to cartIn this classic work–a blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today–the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New York’s dynamic representa
- Author: Chisholm, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0063160870
- Language: English
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
$20.00 Add to cartFrom one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War.
Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents,- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 375702741
- Language: English
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buffalo soldiers: reVision
$25.00 Add to cartIn July of 1866, Congress passed the Army Reorganization Act, establishing six all-Black cavalry and infantry regiments. While African Americans had fought in every prior American military conflict, t
- Author: Thomas, Chip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988013341
- Language: English
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
$27.95 Add to cartThe first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America
Beginning with pre-Rev- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Mays, Kyle T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0807011681
- Language: English
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The Green Book of South Carolina: A Travel Guide to African American Cultural Sites
$16.95 Add to cartSouth Carolina is a state of incredible African American history: from the lunch counter in Rock Hill where the Friendship Nine began their “Jail, No Bail” protests, to the site where the freedom song
- Series: Hub City Writers Project
- Author: Parks, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1938235983
- Language: English
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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Winner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
Winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award
Winner of the MAAH- Author: Brooks, Daphne A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292200
- Language: English
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness
$17.95 Add to cart“This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation’s history!”
– Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Northern Minnesota
Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness i
- Author: Babcock, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987319154
- Language: English
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Juneteenth for Mazie
$15.95 Add to cartMazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day in American history. The day her ancestors were no longer slaves. Mazie remembers the stru… [more below]
- Series: Fiction Picture Books
- Author: Cooper, Floyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1623701708
- Language: English
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Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
$23.00 Add to cart- Author: Cook Bell, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 110892672X
- Language: English
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Child of the Dream (a Memoir of 1963)
$16.99 Read moreAn incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement.
In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns thirteen the night before George Wallace declares o… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1338282808
- Language: English
