Topical/Black History
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Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
$19.99 Read more“A brilliant work of US history.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
“Gripping.” —BCCB (starred review)
“Accessible…Necessary.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A School Library Journal Bes… [more below]- Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 153441617X
- Language: English
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Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou
$21.95 Read moreIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, this beautiful biography of Maya Angelou describes how she rose above a childhood of trauma and emotional
- Author: Hegedus, Bethany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1620145871
- Language: English
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$32.00 Read moreThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1324005939
- Language: English
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Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
$30.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR – BOOKLISTS’ EDITOR’S CHOICE – ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“At once a film book, a history book, and a civil rights book…. Without a doubt, not- Author: Haygood, Wil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0525656871
- Language: English
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Solo Nosotros
$21.95 Read moreThe Spanish edition of Claudia Rankine’s (Citizen) new, acclaimed, genre-bending reflection on whiteness in America.
“Rankine [i
“A skyscraper in the literature on racism.” —Christian Science Monitor- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1644211580
- Language: Spanish
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When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America
$26.00 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… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Theodore R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0802157858
- Language: English
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Baltimore and the Civil Rights Movement
$23.99 Read moreIn all aspects of life, from politics and education to religion and business, the Black Baltimore community has been a leader for civil rights. From the 19th century until the 1970s, Baltimore has bee… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Merrill, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160008
- Language: English
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Unsung Patriots: African Americans in America’s Wars
$34.95 Read moreIt’s one of the last overlooked parts of American military history: the significant role African Americans played in the wars of America. Their story is more than just the 54th Massachusetts in the Ci
- Author: Bétit, Eugene Defriest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0811772349
- Language: English
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Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words
$29.99 Read moreDrawing on historical documents and exclusive interviews, authors tell the inspiring story of Clarence Thomas’s rise from a childhood of poverty and prejudice in the segregated South to Supreme Court … [more below]
- Author: Pack, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1684512700
- Language: English
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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
$35.00 Read moreAn intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abol- Author: Egerton, Douglas R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465096646
- Language: English
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
$58.33 Read moreThe definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recogniti- Author: Jarrett, Gene Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0691150524
- Language: English
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
$18.99 Read moreThis definitive guide to America’s present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd.
For many, the story of the wee- Author: Cottman, Michael H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1538737833
- Language: English
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CHI Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings
$21.95 Read moreIn Chi Boy, Keenan Norris melds memoir, cultural criticism, and literary biography to indelibly depict Chicago–from the Great Migration to the present day–as both a cradle of black intellect, art, a… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Norris, Keenan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258530
- Language: English
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Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
$14.99 Read moreFrom NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in Ame… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0358539412
- Language: English
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The Pennsylvania Wilds and the Civil War
$23.99 Read moreThe Call of Service and the Trial of War From abolitionists to copperheads, from patriotic volunteer soldiers to deserters, the Pennsylvania Wilds lived up to its adventurous name during the Civil War… [more below]
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Myers, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153079
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad in Ohio
$23.99 Read moreOhio was at the heart of it all. During a dark time in United States history, thousands of freedom seekers traveled the Underground Railroad through Ohio. The Buckeye State hosted about half of all fu… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Schulz, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153206
- Language: English
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King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
$20.00 Read moreThe first full and authoritative biography of an American–indeed a world-wide–musical and cultural legend.
“No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more
- Author: de Vise, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0802158064
- Language: English
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Hammering for Freedom: The William Lewis Story
$19.95 Read moreThe inspirational story of William “Bill” Lewis, a hardworking blacksmith who slowly saved his money and bought the freedom of each and every member of his enslaved family.
Born into slavery in Chattan
- Series: New Voices
- Author: Hubbard, Rita Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1600609694
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings (Loa #358)
$40.00 Read moreLibrary of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of A- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 969
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537229
- Language: English
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The Portable Frederick Douglass
$25.00 Add to cartA new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick D… [more below]- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0143106813
- Language: English
