Topical/Black History
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Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn’t just about fashion. It’s about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hust… [more below]
- Author: Day, Daniel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525510532
- Language: English
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Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation
$29.95 Read moreThese essays, articles, and documents introduce readers to the history of Georgetown University’s involvement in slavery and recent efforts to confront its troubling past. It traces Georgetown’s “Slav
- Author: Rothman, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1647120969
- Language: English
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Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk about Racism–And How to Do It
$27.99 Add to cart“Simply the best book I’ve read on how to have those conversations. Unflinchingly honest, exceptionally well-reasoned and researched, there is so much to admire about Speaking of Race.”–Angela Duckwo
- Author: Headlee, Celeste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0063098156
- Language: English
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Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Lives
$40.00 Read more“When we lift every voice, we forge a deep and enduring connection to the past–and carve a tunnel of hope to a brighter future for us all.” -Oprah Winfrey
“This book, above all else, is a reminder of… [more below]- Author: Winfrey, Oprah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1950785815
- Language: English
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The Good Fight
$17.99 Add to cartThe revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman and person of color–a work of immense historical importance
- Author: Chisholm, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 006316082X
- Language: English
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
$27.00 Add to cartBoth an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white Amer… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0452282101
- Language: English
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
$21.00 Read moreAn electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfight- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805079335
- Language: English
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#You Know You’re Black in France When: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness
$34.95 Read moreA groundbreaking study about everyday antiblackness and its refusal in an officially raceblind France.
What does it mean to be racialized-as-black in France on a daily basis? #You Know You’re Black in- Author: Keaton, Trica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047780
- Language: English
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I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
$40.00 Read moreIn the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of… [more below]
- Author: Ferris, William R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496831624
- Language: English
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Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
$11.99 Read more“Uplifting and memorable.”–School Library Journal (starred review)
“Great for reading aloud.”—Booklist (starred review)
Bestselling and multiple Coretta Scott King- and Caldecott-winners Andrea Davis
- Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0060821205
- Language: English
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Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC
$29.95 Read moreBetween Freedom and Equality follows George Pointer-an enslaved African who purchased his freedom in 1793-and six generations of his descendants as they lived and worked in Washington, DC, granting th
- Author: Torrey, Barbara Boyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1647120810
- Language: English
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
$28.00 Read moreNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicag- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1632864126
- Language: English
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
$8.00 Read moreIn an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Yetman, Norman R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0486420701
- Language: English
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Historic Black Neighborhoods of Raleigh
$23.99 Read moreThe story of Raleigh’s African American communities begins before the Civil War. Towns like Oberlin Village were built by free people of color in the antebellum era. During Reconstruction, the creatio… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Cauthen, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467150886
- Language: English
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
$28.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment–and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its in
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1635574250
- Language: English
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African Americans in Chicago
$24.99 Read moreHere is the black Chicago family album, of African Americans leaving the violent, racist South and goin’ to Chicago to find the American Dream.
The story of black Chicago is so rich that few know it al
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Thompson, Lowell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0738588539
- Language: English
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Light in the Darkness
$18.99 Read moreAn enslaved mother and daughter learn to read in spite of great danger in this beautiful testament to the power of literacy, written and illustrated by an award-winning author/artist team.
Rosa and he- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1423134958
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: A Library of America Paperback Classic
$7.95 Add to cartOne of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an Amer… [more below]
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1598533517
- Language: English
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The Story of Tennis Champion Arthur Ashe
$10.95 Read moreThe “Story” chapter-book line debuts with this action-packed tribute to Arthur Ashe, one of the most compelling athletes and humanitarians of the twentieth century.
From the start, Arthur Ashe was an u
- Series: Story of
- Author: Hubbard, Crystal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1620147890
- Language: English
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It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
$11.95 Read moreThe inspiring biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban lif
- Author: Tate, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1643790552
- Language: English
