Topical/Black History
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
$28.00 Read more“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”-
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0399590862
- Language: English
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Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition
$9.99 Add to cartThe uplifting, amazing true story–a New York Times bestseller
This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It’s the powerful story of four African-American fema
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 29, 2016
- ISBN10: 0062662376
- Language: English
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Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing
$29.00 Add to cartAfrican American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing knowledge brought with the African captives on the sl
- Author: Lee, Michele Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: December 15, 2017
- ISBN10: 0692857877
- Language: English
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Flags on the Bayou
$28.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters – enslaved and free women, plantation gen… [more below]
- Author: Burke, James Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161693
- Language: English
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Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One
$19.95 Add to cartAdapted for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves, directed by Taylor Sheridan and starring David Oyelowo
2022 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist for Western Fiction
2021 Phillip H. McMat- Series: The Bass Reeves Trilogy
- Author: Thompson, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01, 2020
- ISBN10: 1496218752
- Language: English
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The ABCs of Black History
$17.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
B is for Beautiful, Brave, and Bright And for a Book that takes a Bold journey through the alphabet of Black history and culture. Letter by letter, The ABCs of Black His- Author: Cortez, Rio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1523507497
- Language: English
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2023
The remarkable true story of E
New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1501191063
- Language: English
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2023
New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Boston, Chicago Public Library, Oprah Daily, a- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1501191055
- Language: English
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
$30.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s las
Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Books- Author: Hylton, Antonia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1538723697
- Language: English
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Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas
$19.99 Add to cartCelebrate the life-changing power of art in this inspiring and stunningly illustrated picture book biography of American artist Alma Thomas.
Meet an incredible woman who broke down barriers throughout
- Author: Harvey, Jeanne Walker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063021897
- Language: English
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
$38.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER – A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the … [more below]
- Author: Hannah-Jones, Nikole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230574
- Language: English
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
$32.50 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON’S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS
- Author: Harriot, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0358439167
- Language: English
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Katherine Johnson: Ready-To-Read Level 3
$5.99 Add to cartGet to know the woman who made many of NASA’s early missions possible in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people “you should meet!”
Meet Kather- Series: You Should Meet
- Author: Feldman, Thea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 153440340X
- Language: English
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The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
$21.99 Read moreA New York Times Bestseller
By the author of Showtime–the source for HBO’s Winning Time–the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson.
“A legendary tome on a legendary athlete.” –Chr
- Author: Pearlman, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0063285312
- Language: English
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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
$21.99 Add to cartThis “landmark” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century’… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619617
- Language: English
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I Have a Dream
$19.99 Add to cartIntroducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library
With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman
A beautiful collectible edition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legendary speech at the March on Washington, laid out to
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063236796
- Language: English
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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
$19.95 Add to cartThe best-selling look at how American cities can promote racial equity, end redlining, and reverse the damaging health- and wealth-related effects of segregation.
Winner of the IPPY Book Award Current
- Author: Brown, Lawrence T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1421445441
- Language: English
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
$40.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BEST SELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF BUZZFEED‘S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
“A brilliant and stirring … [more below]- Author: Wilkerson, Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0679444327
- Language: English
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Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I- Author: Long, Michael G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1479818496
- Language: English
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Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
$18.99 Add to cartA startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
When George Washington was e- Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1501126415
- Language: English
