Topical/Black History
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
$25.00 Add to cart**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped sl- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1416590323
- Language: English
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Keep Dreaming, Black Child
$17.99 Read more“Fans of Antiracist Baby (2000) by Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky, and Woke Baby (2018) by Mahogany L. Browne, illustrated by Theodore Taylor III, will enjoy this motivating book.”
- Author: Williams, Nyasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 0762482818
- Language: English
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I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
$30.00 Read moreLonglisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
“Powerful and deeply moving.”–Los Angeles Times * Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History’s Stone Book Award * National Council on- Author: Williams, Kidada E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1635576636
- Language: English
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The American Queen
$31.99 Read moreThere is only one known queen who truly ruled a kingdom on American soil.
Transformative and breathtakingly honest, The American Queen is based on actual events that occurred between 1865 – 1889 and sh
- Author: Miller, Vanessa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0840708904
- Language: English
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Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
$19.99 Add to cartThe bold story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during the space race and was depicted in the film Hidden Figures.
You’ve likely heard of the historic Apollo- Author: Becker, Helaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1250137527
- Language: English
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From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
$23.00 Add to cartRacism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatic… [more below]
- Author: Darity, William A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1469671204
- Language: English
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Homeward
$17.99 Read moreThe country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing–and no one–will ever be the same.
Georgia, 1962. Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband
- Author: Jackson-Brown, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1400241103
- Language: English
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Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed
$35.00 Read moreFrom Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinema history, this is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive and lavish biography of Hollywood’s first Africa
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Bogle, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 076247520X
- Language: English
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
$18.95 Add to cartAn intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a rev- Series: ReVisioning American History #4
- Author: Ortiz, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0807005932
- Language: English
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Black Tarot: An Ancestral Awakening Deck and Guidebook
$28.00 Add to cartAwaken ancestral ties and connect to the divine with Black Tarot, a deluxe tarot deck and guidebook set from author Nyasha Williams, featuring and celebrating exclusively Black figures and imagery.
Le- Author: Williams, Nyasha
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- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0762479698
- Language: English
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Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
$28.99 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking exploration, the editor of the? New York Times? bestseller? Barracoon documents and discusses social, political, and economic “disparities” and “inequities” that undermine Afric
- Author: Plant, Deborah G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0062898493
- Language: English
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Angela Davis: An Autobiography
$22.95 Add to cart“An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend.”
–Ibram X. KendiThis beautiful new edition of Angela Davis’s classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by the author.
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- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1642598984
- Language: English
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Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
$20.95 Read moreThis historical fiction picture book reveals the unknown story of Lilly Ann Granderson, an African-American teacher who risked her life to teach others during slavery.
Born into slavery around 1821 in
- Author: Halfmann, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1620141639
- Language: English
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Becoming Muhammad Ali
$8.99 Add to cartTwo heavy-hitters in children’s literature deliver a critically acclaimed, bestselling biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali.
★ “This utterly delightful story about Ali’s childhood- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316498173
- Language: English
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
$5.99 Add to cartThe most effective method used to influence children to read is to incorporate the information that interests them the most. National Geographic Readers are educational, high-interest, and comprehensi… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Jazynka, Kitson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1426310870
- Language: English
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Solo
$15.99 Add to cartSolo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess is a New York Times bestseller! Kirkus Reviews said Solo is, “A contemporary hero’s journey, brilliantly told.” Through the story of a young Black man search
- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0310761883
- Language: English
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
$30.00 Add to cartThis “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America–and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316492930
- Language: English
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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book)
$19.99 Read moreA Caldecott-honor winning picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son’s death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.
Mamie Till-Mobley is- Author: Joy, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250220955
- Language: English
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I Am Ruby Bridges
$18.99 Add to cartRuby Bridges tells her story as never before and shares the events of the momentous day in 1960 when Ruby became the first Black child to integrate the all-white William Franz Elementary as a six year
- Author: Bridges, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1338753886
- Language: English
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A Library
$19.99 Add to cartIn this lyrical picture book, world-renowned poet, New York Times bestselling author, and Coretta Scott King Honor winner Nikki Giovanni and fine artist Erin Robinson craft an ode to the magic of a li
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0358387655
- Language: English
