Topical/Black History
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Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
$39.95 Read moreWinner of the 2024 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award
An unprecedented collection of African American writings on Lincoln
Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln’s imperfections, Black Americans long ag
- Author: Hord, Fred Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0252044681
- Language: English
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Statesman of the Piano: Jazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper Volume 266
$47.43 Read moreOntario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, per… [more below]
- Series: Carleton Library
- Author: Mills, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0228018803
- Language: English
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An Apple for Harriet Tubman
$9.99 Read moreBest Children’s Books of the Year, Bank Street College
One day I am going to be free–and I’m going to have all the apples I want.
Like other enslaved African American children, young Harriet Tubman had
- Author: Turner, Glennette Tilley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0807503967
- Language: English
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Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America
$18.95 Read moreGlennette Tilley Turner presents thestory of Fort Mose in the only picture book for children about the first free Black community in America.
In 1724, Francisco Menendez escaped from a plantation in- Author: Turner, Glennette Tilley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0810940566
- Language: English
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Black America: Historic Moments, Key Figures & Cultural Milestones from the African-American Story
$19.99 Read moreFrom slavery through the election of Vice President Kamala Harris, here is the history of Black America told through striking photographs and compelling narrative that captures many of the key joys, s
- Series: Visual History
- Author: Andrews, Kehinde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1497103975
- Language: English
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Moving to Neptune: New & Selected
$22.00 Read moreBraggs confronts us with a combination of hard realism and musical lyricism, painting unforgettable images in unforgettable language. This is American poetry at its finest: as spacious as Walt Whitman
- Author: Braggs, Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 193469567X
- Language: English
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My Name Is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
$9.99 Read moreOften shocking, always compelling, Afua Cooper’s novel is based on the life of Henry Bibb, an American slave who after repeated attempts escaped in 1841 to become an anti-slavery speaker, author and
- Author: Cooper, Afua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1525310852
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver
$4.99 Add to cartTake a bite into the fascinating history of peanut butter and the man who invented it. Through leveled text and engaging photos, kids meet George Washington Carver and learn about his important work w… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Jazynka, Kitson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1426322852
- Language: English
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Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!
$12.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2011 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction
“On behalf of the Nova Scotia government, I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Viola Desmond’s family and to all African Nova Scoti
- Author: Warner, Jody Nyasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 177306035X
- Language: English
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Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York
$19.95 Read more- Series: Kentucky Voices
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0813196450
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
$7.95 Read moreThe powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition
“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0300087012
- Language: English
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The Nile Swim Club of Yeadon: A History
$24.99 Read moreAmerica’s Oldest Black Swim Club
When it opened in July of 1959, the Nile Swim Club welcomed over one thousand people to its pool. The only problem that day, remembers Bill Mellix, then 13, “None of u
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Kodosky Phd, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156124
- Language: English
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Breaking Through the Lines: The Marion Motley Story
$14.99 Read moreMarion Motley was recognized as one of the gridiron’s most outstanding players when he was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968 in his hometown of Canton, Ohio. His legacy off the fiel
- Author: Morgan Jr, David Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1634947533
- Language: English
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
$9.95 Add to cart“How It Feels To Be Colored Me” by Florida native Zora Neale Hurston was originally published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece about her own color, Hurston reflects on… [more below]
- Series: American Roots
- Author: Hurston, Zora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1429096179
- Language: English
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Emma’s Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century
$58.33 Read moreBCALA 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winner
The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings,- Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora
- Author: Mitchell, Faith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1496843150
- Language: English
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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
$7.99 Read moreIn this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story”… [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1481449397
- Language: English
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Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician
$18.99 Read more“A detail-rich picture book.” —Kirkus Reviews
From award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome and acclaimed illustrator Ra l Col n comes the sens
“Straightforward and inviting.” —School Library Journal- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1534404759
- Language: English
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Howard Thurman’s Great Hope
$11.95 Read moreBorn in segregated Daytona, Florida, in 1899, Howard Thurman grew up dreaming of a better life–a life where his mother and grandmother would not have to cook and clean for other people; a life where
- Author: Issa, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1600608906
- Language: English
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
$29.73 Add to cartThe groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed
“As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produ
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1620970287
- Language: English
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Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
$50.00 Read moreGordon Parks’ ethically complex depictions of crime in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with previously unseen photographs
A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick
Whe- Author: Parks, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 3958296963
- Language: English
