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To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
9780393356731$17.95Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world’s most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King, Jr., as an advocate of racial harmony, to explore... -
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
9781620973356$25.99One of Book Riot's "29 Amazing New Books Coming in 2018" A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights--many nearly lost to... -
African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties: An Oral History (American Heritage)Â
9781467119597$21.99Durham and Orange Counties have vibrant and active African American communities. Throughout the region's unjust past, generations have shown extraordinary strength and resolve. Floyd McKissick became the first African American student at the University... -
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
9780393293012$26.95Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many black residents were poor sharecroppers,... -
And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
9780062427007$35.00The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise--a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I... -
An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President 9780465070534
9780465070534$16.95Robinson explores the singularly curious and inimitable tragic history of the island nation of Haiti, beginning with the present anarchic disrepair of it modern state. From one revolution to another, Haiti has changed the fate of empires yet has not been... -
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History
9780195030426$22.95In this first comparative history of race relations in the United States and South Africa, George M. Fredrickson uncovers parallels and differences in the origin and expression of white supremacy in the two countries. -
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006
9781578061549$40.00Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and social history of African Americans since World War II. Aimed at students of contemporary American politics... -
W. E. B. DuBois on Sociology and the Black Community
9780226167602$59.95Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W. E. B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of the black community in the United States. This volume collects his most important sociological writings... -
Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History (PB) (2024)
9781324078876$13.54A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America's greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels, the badass and funky, the activists and... -
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir (HC) (2024)
9780063263901$29.99From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering... -
W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation (PB) (2023)
9781978824652$19.95"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois's influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. The preeminent Black intellectual of his generation, Du Bois wrote about the... -
Originals!: Black Women Breaking Barriers (PB) (2022)
9781578597598$19.95Discover and celebrate the achievements of some of America's most inspiring women!The first female. African American vice president, first U.S. senator, the 83rd U.S. Attorney General, and first black state legislator in Alaska. The first time a black... -
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America (PB) (2022)
9780807007259$16.95National Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist 53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Autobiography "[A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer's life. . . . Brilliantly constructed to be both forward and backward... -
Traditional Fishing Boats of Britain & Ireland (PB) (2011)
9781445602523$32.95The definitive volume on Britains traditional fishing boats, by the author of Herring: A History of the Silver Darlings. The Coasts of Britain and Ireland are surrounded by some of the most tempestuous waters in the world and are among the most diverse... -
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy (HC) (2022)
9781541700666$32.00Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany. Prior to World War II, Josephine...