Topical/Black History
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Before She Was Harriet
$8.99 Add to cartAn evocative poem and stunning watercolors come together to honor an American heroine in a Coretta Scott King Honor and Christopher Award-winning picture book.
We know her today as Harriet Tubman, bu- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0823444295
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cart‘The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.’
Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198709870
- Language: English
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A Black Women’s History of the United States
$29.95 Add to cartThe award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)–the perfect companion to An Indigenous Peop… [more below]
- Series: ReVisioning American History #5
- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0807033553
- Language: English
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Pauli Murray: Shouting for the Rights of All People
$16.95 Read moreThe first introductory and illustrated biography of the civil rights icon.
The untold story of Pauli Murray, activist, lawyer, poet, and Episcopal priest, who broke records and barriers throughout her
- Author: Linck, Deborah Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1640655573
- Language: English
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Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
$19.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”–Ebony
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American… [more below]- Author: Rhoden, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0307353141
- Language: English
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
$27.00 Read moreWinner of the SHEAR Book Prize
“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.”
Honorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award
–Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement “[One] of the mos- Author: Johnson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975383
- Language: English
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Camp William Penn: 1863-1865: 1863-1865
$29.99 Read moreLocated in Chelten Hills just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Camp William Penn was the largest and first Civil War facility to exclusively train Northern-based federal black soldiers during th… [more below]
- Author: Scott, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0764342533
- Language: English
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Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement: A Brief Introduction
$16.95 Read more“When you make an observation, you have an obligation.”
–M.K. AsanteDeidra R. Moore-Janvier, Esq.–African American wife, mother, attorney, and advocate for social change–did just that. It was in 201
- Author: Moore, Deidra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1645438554
- Language: English
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Desegregation in Northern Virginia Libraries
$23.99 Read moreA Hidden History of Unequal Access During the Jim Crow era, many public libraries were segregated. The public library plays a fundamental role in communities by providing free educational resources, b… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Barbuschak, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152897
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
$9.99 Read moreBooker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first presiden… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1454949996
- Language: English
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1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project
$28.99 Read morePeter Wood argues against the flawed interpretation of history found in the New York Times‘ 1619 Project and asserts that the true origins of American self-government were enshrined in the Mayflower C
- Author: Wood, Peter W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1641771240
- Language: English
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When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America
$17.00 Read moreA bold, thought-provoking pathway to the national solidarity that could, finally, address the ills of racism in America
“Racism is an existential threat to America,” Theodore R. Johnson declares at th- Author: Johnson, Theodore R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0802157866
- Language: English
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Generations of Somerset Place: From Slavery to Freedom
$24.99 Read moreLocated in the rural northeastern part of North Carolina, Somerset was cumulatively home to more than 800 enslaved blacks and four generations of a planter family.
When the institution of slavery ended
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Redford, Dorothy Spruill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 31 2005
- ISBN10: 738518034
- Language: English
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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
$37.50 Read moreSouthern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side is the first book devoted to the South Side’s rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and … [more below]
- Series: Second to None: Chicago Stories
- Author: Bey, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0810140985
- Language: English
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African Americans of St. Lawrence County: North Country Pioneers
$24.99 Read moreDiscover the Black pioneers who shaped St. Lawrence County through grit and determination.
From its origins as part of New France through the Civil War and eventual industrialization of the region, St.
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Thompson, Bryan S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154032
- Language: English
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The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches
$19.99 Read moreThe classic collection of major speeches, now bundled with an audio download of Malcolm X delivering two of them.
Malcolm X remains a touchstone figure for black America and in American culture at la- Author: X, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1628728299
- Language: English
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Mamie on the Mound: A Woman in Baseball’s Negro Leagues
$18.95 Add to cartMamie “Peanut” Johnson had one dream: to play professional baseball. She was a talented player, but she wasn’t welcome in the segregated All-American Girls Pro Baseball League due to the color of her … [more below]
- Author: Henderson, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1684460239
- Language: English
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I Am Restored: How I Lost My Religion But Found My Faith
$26.99 Read moreWhen the challenges you’ve faced threaten to destroy your life, how do you find your way back to the truths you thought you believed?
I Am Restored tells the untold story of how Lecrae’s past nearly ru
- Author: Moore, Lecrae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0310358035
- Language: English
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The Essential Kerner Commission Report
$17.95 Read moreThe Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book–a dramatic, o
- Author: Cobb, Jelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498924
- Language: English
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Making the Movement: How Activists Fought for Civil Rights with Buttons, Flyers, Pins, and Posters
$29.95 Read morePacked with over 200 color photos, this visual journey through Black history and the Civil Rights Movement is told through the objects–buttons, badges, flyers, pennants, posters, and more–designed b… [more below]
- Author: Crane, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1648961088
- Language: English
