Topical/Black History
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Our Story Starts in Africa
$18.99 Read moreAward-winning writer Patrice Lawrence’s picture book Our Story Starts in Africa is a sensitively told story of Black history from its very ancient origins to its dynamic future, vibrantly illustrated
- Author: Lawrence, Patrice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 141976022X
- Language: English
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Ghost Boys
$8.99 Add to cartA heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.
Only the living can make the worl- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316262269
- Language: English
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
$30.00 Read moreA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and na- Author: Shane, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1250843219
- Language: English
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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
$30.00 Add to cartNew York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage.
In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses a… [more below]- Author: Smilios, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593544927
- Language: English
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Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street
$0.00 Read moreA multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrifi
- Author: Luckerson, Victor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593134370
- Language: English
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One Crazy Summer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartIn this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. A
- Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 27, 2011
- ISBN10: 0060760907
- Language: English
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We Who Believe in Freedom: The Life and Times of Ella Baker
$14.00 Add to cartThe second volume in the True Tales for Young Readers series, this short biography of the civil rights leader is intended for middle school and high school readers. Ella Baker, who grew up in Littleto
- Series: True Tales for Young Readers
- Author: Williams, Lea E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 0865264880
- Language: English
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Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth
$18.99 Add to cartBooklist starred review
Black activist Opal Lee had a vision of Juneteenth as a holiday for everyone. This true story celebrates Black joy and inspires children to see their dreams blossom. Growing up
- Author: Duncan, Alice Faye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1400231256
- Language: English
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The Undefeated
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 Caldecott Medal
The Newbery Award-winning author of THE CROSSOVER pens an ode to black American
A 2020 Newbery Honor Book
Winner of the 2020 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1328780961
- Language: English
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The Forsaken and the Dead: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Three
$19.95 Add to cartBooks 1 & 2 of the Bass Reeves Trilogy adapted for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves
All heroes have fatal flaws and a moment of defin
2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Historical Fiction- Series: The Bass Reeves Trilogy
- Author: Thompson, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496220323
- Language: English
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Mae Among the Stars
$19.99 Add to cartA beautiful picture book for sharing and marking special occasions such as graduation, inspired by the life of the first African American woman to travel in space, Mae Jemison. An Amazon Best Book of
- Author: Ahmed, Roda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 09, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062651730
- Language: English
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
$35.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil–when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to disma… [more below]
- Author: Bordewich, Fergus M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593317815
- Language: English
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
$16.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Meet the little leaders. They’re brave. They’re bold. They changed the world. Featuring 40 trailblazing black women in history, this book educates and inspires as it rela- Series: Vashti Harrison #1
- Author: Harrison, Vashti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 0316475114
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$19.95 Read more2023 PROSE Award in European History
“An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.”
—Washington Post “Reveals how pre- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295455
- Language: English
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The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
$29.99 Add to cartJoining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave
- Author: Durkin, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063072998
- Language: English
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On Juneteenth
$15.95 Add to cartWeaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth,
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 04, 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498835
- Language: English
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Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals
$27.99 Add to cartThis amazing true story of America’s first Black generals, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airmen, is “the book Blac
- Author: Melville, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668005131
- Language: English
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
$18.99 Add to cartThis crucial, empowering, #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism–and antiracism–in America makes critical ideas accessible for teen readers, adapted from Ibram X. Kendi’s National Book
- Author: Reynolds, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10, 2020
- ISBN10: 0316453692
- Language: English
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The Talk
$29.99 Add to cartWinner of the NAACP Image Award in Outstanding Graphic Novels
Winner of the Libby Award for Best Comic/Graphic Novel of the Year
Named The Year’s Best Graphic Novel by Publishers Weekly
Named one of Publ- Author: Bell, Darrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250805147
- Language: English
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Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers
$18.99 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller!
In the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young readers are introduced to the remarkable and true-life story of Cudj
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063098334
- Language: English
