Topical/Black History
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Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$19.95 Read moreA riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ancestors.
“For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give a voic- Author: Kingsley, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364587
- Language: English
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African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence
$36.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1578597803
- Language: English
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Ready-To-Read Level 1
$5.99 Add to cartMrs. Connor’s students honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day with their own dreams and hopes in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read!
The class imagines how to make the world a better place in this celebration of an- Series: Ready-To-Read Robin Hill School – Level 1 (Paperback)
- Author: McNamara, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1416934944
- Language: English
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Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition: The Ben Carson Story
$7.99 Add to cartFrom Inner-City Nobody to Brilliant Neurosurgeon
When Ben Carson was in school, his classmates called him the class dummy. Many–including Ben himself–doubted that he would ever amount to anything.
- Series: Zonderkidz Biography
- Author: Lewis, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 031073830X
- Language: English
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Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment: The Military Career of Charles Young
$24.95 Add to cart“A valuable read for anyone with an interest in the final years of the frontier Army, American imperialism, African-Americans in military service, and American military history in general.”–A.A. Nofi
- Author: Shellum, Brian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803213859
- Language: English
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The Awkward Black Man
$17.00 Add to cartA masterful collection of stories that showcases one of the country’s most beloved and acclaimed writers–award-winning author, Walter Mosley.
Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a mast
- Author: Mosley, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0802156851
- Language: English
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Newbery Honor Book; National Book Award Winner)
$14.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER AND NEWBERY HONOR BOOK ● Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Read the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights fi
- Author: Hoose, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0312661053
- Language: English
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This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
$25.95 Add to cartVisiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self-defense,” King assured him. It was not the only wea… [more below]
- Author: Cobb, Charles E., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 04 2015
- ISBN10: 082236123X
- Language: English
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Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X
$19.99 Add to cartMalcolm X grew to be one of America’s most influential figures. But first, he was a boy named Malcolm Little. Written by his daughter, this inspiring picture book biography celebrates a vision of free… [more below]
- Author: Shabazz, Ilyasah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 144241216X
- Language: English
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History
$30.00 Read moreIn 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393866807
- Language: English
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I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era
$35.00 Read moreThis book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical experience.
Amidst bloody battles and polit- Author: Roberts, Rita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1797213725
- Language: English
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Obama: An Intimate Portrait
$60.00 Add to cartRelive the extraordinary Presidency of Barack Obama through White House photographer Pete Souza’s behind-the-scenes images and stories in this #1 New York Times bestseller — with a foreword from the … [more below]
- Author: Souza, Pete
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0316512583
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero: Paperback Edition
$14.99 Add to cartDelve into the largely overlooked footprint that Black punks have on the underground music scene in a new archival publication brought to you by Raeghan Buchanan and Silver Sprocket.
The Secret Histor… [more below]
- Author: Buchanan, Raeghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886200355
- Language: English
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights
$21.00 Add to cartAn LA Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist!
“Engrossing… examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in- Author: Wickenden, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1476760748
- Language: English
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Just Like Jesse Owens
$17.99 Read moreCivil rights icon, Ambassador Andrew Young and his daughter, Paula Young Shelton, deliver a powerful oral history about a special day in Andrew’s childhood that changed him forever. This story of race… [more below]
- Author: Young, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 545554659
- Language: English
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Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience
$27.99 Read more“An eloquent and perceptive series of essays on Black lives in America” — Kirkus Reviews
In this hard-hitting collection of essays, D.B. Maroon presents a personal biography of America, Blackness, a- Author: Maroon, D. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 164160932X
- Language: English
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Alabama V. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
$28.99 Read more“Poignant, sometimes harrowing.” –Wall Street Journal
The defense lawyer for Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, the Selma marchers, and other civil rights heroes reveals the true story of the histori… [more below]
- Author: Abrams, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1335475192
- Language: English
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
$35.00 Add to cartEmmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett T
- Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media
- Author: Anderson, Devery S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1496814770
- Language: English
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A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062370863
- Language: English
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The Classic Slave Narratives
$8.95 Add to cartA seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The … [more below]
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0451532139
- Language: English
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