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South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
9780822358541$23.95In "South Side Girls" Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940, when Chicago's black population quintupled, Chatelain describes how Chicago's black social scientists,... -
Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State
9781626199835$21.99Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well. From the founding of the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in 1904, B -
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
9780670021703$27.95"Freedom Summer" presents finely rendered portraits of the courageous black citizens--and Northern volunteers--who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life.A... -
Chain Gang All Stars (PB) (2024)
9780593469316$18.00A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION - A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not... -
If These Stones Could Talk: African American Presence in the Hopewell Valley (PB) (2023)
9798986618852$29.95Cemeteries have stories to tell, voices to unearth-and lessons from the past that we can draw upon to better shape the future. If These Stones Could Talk brings fresh light to a forgotten corner of American history that begins in a small cemetery in... -
The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American Fascism (PB) (2022)
9780717800018$24.99When Mexico moved to abolish slavery, Texas seceded in 1836-in a replay of 1776-- in order to perpetuate enslavement of Africans forevermore. Until 1845 Texas was an independent nation and moved to challenge the U.S. for leadership in the odious commerce... -
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (HC) (2021) (Large Print)
9780316278744$31.00Instant #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... -
Obama: The Historic Presidency of Barack Obama - 2,920 Days (HC) (2017)
9781454926399$24.95A vibrant celebration of President Obama, this perfect commemorative book provides a valuable record of his historical presidency. In January 2017, Barack Obama concluded two terms of his historic presidency. Through stunning images by White House... -
Malcolm X Speaks (HC) (1989)
9780873485463$15.00Speeches from the last year and a half of Malcolm X's life tracing the evolution of his views on racism, capitalism, socialism, political action, and more. -
Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s (PB) (1997)
9780306807923$19.99In August 1965 the predominantly black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and violence following an incident of police brutality. The official death toll was thirty-four; property losses reached hundreds of millions of dollars; but... -
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
9781501122392$30.00"Smoketown brilliantly offers us a chance to see this other black renaissance and spend time with the many luminaries who sparked it...It's thanks to such a gifted storyteller as Whitaker that this forgotten chapter of American history can finally... -
The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality
9781610398107$28.00The long-hidden stories of America's black pioneers, the frontier they settled, and their fight for the heart of the nation When black settlers Keziah and Charles Grier started clearing their frontier land in 1818, they couldn't know that they were part... -
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South
9780061284151$26.99Convicted of the rape of a white woman in Mississippi, Willie McGee was executed in 1951, and the mysteries surrounding his case live on in this provocative tale about justice in the deep South. A gripping saga of race and retribution in the Deep South... -
The Slave Ship: A Human History
9780670018239$27.95Much is known of the American slave trade, but little of the ships that made it all possible. Award-winning historian Rediker draws on 30 years of research in maritime archives to create an unprecedented history of these vessels and the human drama acted... -
Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America
9780814795637$24.00Newark's volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of... -