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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 (PB) (1989)
$25.00In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a "compelling...masterfully told" (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King's early years and rise to... -
On the Courthouse Lawn, Revised Edition: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century (PB) (2018)
$18.00This exploration of the effects of lynching in the U.S. speaks powerfully to us in these times that have witnessed the creation of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Nearly five thousand black Americans were lynched... -
Negroland: A Memoir (PB) (2016)
$16.00NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Jefferson takes us into an insular and...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$16.00Subtotal: -
Just Harvest: The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case Against the U.S. Government (HC) (2021)
$28.00When a class-action lawsuit against the US government results in a billion dollar settlement for the aggrieved parties, you'd expect the story to be headline news . . .to be posted on social media everywhere . . . to be adapted to film or even to a...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$28.00Subtotal: -
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action (HC) (2020)
$28.00A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social... -
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (CD) (2021)
$40.00Instant #1 New York Times bestseller Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks--those that are honest about the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$40.00Subtotal: -
Historical Moments: Military Contributions of African Americans (PB) (2020)
$14.95I have always been a fan of history, especially military history. However, I have found that the military history of African Americans in the defense of America has had very little written about it, and in some cases, their deeds and accomplishment were... -
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation (PB) (2014)
$18.00I am in Birmingham because injustice is here, declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good... -
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (PB) (2020)
$17.002020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award WinnerFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it--a sweeping chronicle... -
From Poverty to Prosperity: A Ghetto Exit Strategy as a Rite of Passage (PB) (2012)
$14.95Although blacks living within America are still haunted by the same malevolent plights their ancestors sparred with and could not elude, Jermaine Jones refuses to agree they are all grounds for blacks, today, to simply surrender. Rather than opting for... -
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (HC) (2018)
$37.50**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day... -
Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color (Revised) (PB) (2013)
$26.95Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own...