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Stone Mirrors
From critically acclaimed author Jeannine Atkins comes a “memorable, poetic tale” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a half Native American, half...
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You Can Fly
Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford’s innovative history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American...
In this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the power...
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Legendary Miss Lena Horne
Celebrate the life of Lena Horne, the pioneering African American actress and civil rights activist, with this inspiring and powerful picture book from...
$9.47
My Story, My Dance
“In James E. Ransome’s realistic pastel portraits, Battle, his family and his teachers all seem lit from within.” —The New York Times Book Review “An...
$6.99
Troubles of Johnny Cannon
“A boy with a highly original voice winces his way into the bewildering world of adults during a neglected moment in American history” (Newbery...
$12.58
Game Changers
An ALA Notable Book “This lovingly crafted picture book biography centers on the incredible bond between Venus and Serena Williams…An important...
$4.37
Lift Your Light a Little Higher
Grab your lantern and follow the remarkable and world-famous Mammoth Cave explorer—and slave—Stephen Bishop as he guides you through the world’s...
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Love Will See You Through
The niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. reveals six timeless and universal principles that encompass the civil rights leader’s greatest legacy: Love will...
$13.90
Call Me By My Name
From former football star and bestselling author John Ed Bradley comes a searing look at love, life, and football in the face of racial adversity.... Product details Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (May 5, 2015) Language : English...
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On Juneteenth
Product details
Publisher : HMH Books for Young Readers; First edition (May 4, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780152063924
ISBN-13 : 9780152063924
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Black Judaism Story of an American Movement
Throughout most black societies today, there are Jews who are not accepted by the worldwide community of Rabbinic Jews. They are known as Black Jews, and the movement they represent is known as Black Judaism. Originating in the post-Civil War...
$65.00
The Evolution of Deadly Conflict in Liberia From 'Paternaltarianism' to State Collapse
This book represents the first attempt to holistically document and analyze the causes of deadly conflict in Liberia from its founding to the present. It reconstructs and examines the root, operational, and catalytic causes of eighteen internal deadly conflicts that...
$45.00
Local Government in South Africa Since 1994 Leadership, Democracy, Development and Service Delivery in a Post-Apartheid Era
This uniquely written and enterprising book reasons that local authorities are created to play two essential roles, namely: (i) service rendering, which is a utilitarian consideration, and (ii) democracy, which is a civic consideration. The utilitarian dimension entails the efficient...
$50.00
Someone Had to Be Hated Julian LaRose Harris: A Biography
This book is a biography of Julian LaRose Harris (1874-1963), Southern journalist and publisher. From his father, Joel Chandler Harris, the noted Georgia journalist and folklorist, Harris gleaned the ideals of racial tolerance and sectional reconciliation following the Civil War....
$45.00
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)
01/29/2019 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow segregation. This is a story about America...
$19.99
The History of Civil Rights Movements in America
"There have been many struggles for civil rights in American history. Black Lives Matter is one of the latest movements, but other groups, including women and Native Americans, have also protested for equality and fair treatment. The History of Civil...
$30.95
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.“Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again“Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation...
$30.00
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward―written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil...
$26.99
Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
A celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride! The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first African American commissioned officer in the...
$29.95
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920....
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No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History
Republished as part of Amistad’s Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today, written by the voice of black consciousness, Dick Gregory—the incomparable...
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Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
"[An] inspiring book about the events leading up to the 1960 election, from Dr. King's imprisonment to student activism in Atlanta to JFK's campaign. It's a story we can all learn from―a story of overlooked heroes and the power each...
$28.00
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico.The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands...
$32.00
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the 20th century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense...
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Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
“This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed over time from segregated trains to buses and Uber rides. Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.”―Ibram X....
$35.00
Black History 1619-2019: An Illustrated and Documented African-American History
BLACK HISTORY 1619 TO 2019 is an inspiring and educational journey through American history. It is an in-depth look at the events which shaped the lives and contributions of the African-American community in the United States of America. This book is...
$39.95
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, Northern and Southern, in the decades before the Civil War. The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well...
$32.00
Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman
In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer delivered a heart-wrenching testimony before the Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) Credentials Committee. In this speech, Hamer represented both the concerns of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and the limits of American democracy when she...
$34.00
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
The basis of a major PBS documentary by Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns (first airing: October 13, 2020 at 9PM ET), this revelatory history shows how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. It’s hardly a secret that mobility has...
$28.95
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparationsBorn into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded...
$27.95