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W. E. B. DUBOIS ON SOCIOLOGY AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY
Historian, 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 from...
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LIGHTING THE FIRES OF FREEDOM
During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women did not stand on ceremony; they simply did the work that needed to be done. Yet despite their significant contributions at all levels of the movement, they remain mostly invisible to the...
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THE AGE OF GARVEY: HOW A JAMAICAN ACTIVIST CREATED A MASS MOVEMENT AND CHANGED GLOBAL BLACK POLITICS (AMERICA IN THE WORLD)
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age...
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THE BIRTH OF A NATION: NAT TURNER AND THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT
This official tie-in to the highly acclaimed film The Birth of a Nation surveys the history and legacy of Nat Turner, the leader of one of the most renowned slave rebellions on American soil, while also exploring Turner's relevance to contemporary dialogues...
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THE FAMILY TREE: A LYNCHING IN GEORGIA, A LEGACY OF SECRETS, AND MY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH
In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912—written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them.Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white...
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WORLD WAR II RADIO HEROES: LETTERS OF COMPASSION (COMING SOON)
More than 60 years had passed before she found them. Dozens of letters written to her family during WWII-from total strangers-to tell her great-grandmother that her son had been captured and was being held as a POW. How did they...
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GIANTS: THE PARALLEL LIVES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS & ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men...
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THE RESIDENCE: INSIDE THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE WHITE HOUSE
A remarkable history with elements of both In the President’s Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas. America’s First Families are unknowable in many ways. No...
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BLACK SOLDIERS OF NEW YORK: A PROUD LEGACY
Concise history of the valiant service of New York’s African American soldiers. Product details Publisher : Excelsior Editions; Illustrated edition (January 22, 2009) Language : English Paperback : 188 pages ISBN-10 : 143842616X ISBN-13 : 978-1438426167 Item Weight : 8 ounces Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.47 x...
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THE NEW BLACK HISTORY: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE SINCE 1945 READER
The New Black History anthology presents cutting-edge scholarship on key issues that define African American politics, life, and culture, especially during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. The volume includes articles by both established scholars and a rising generation...
$119.99
THE PROBLEM OF POWER- THEN AND NOW (COMING SOON)
"The Problem of Power-Then and Now" takes you through history to the present day by addressing Historical, Personal, Social, Biblical, Anthropological, Political and Economic facets of this real part of human existence. A must to read if you want answers...
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LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME: EVERYTHING YOUR AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOK GOT WRONG (REVISED)
"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."―Howard Zinn A new edition of the...
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THE BLACK HISTORY OF THE WHITE HOUSE
The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work...
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THE ADDRESS BOOK: WHAT STREET ADDRESSES REVEAL ABOUT IDENTITY, RACE, WEALTH, AND POWER
Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards"An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we...
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DEFINING MOMENTS IN BLACK HISTORY: READING BETWEEN THE LIES
Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelong activist against social injustice, whether he...
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THE LIGHT OF TRUTH: WRITINGS OF AN ANTI-LYNCHING CRUSADER
Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped Wells’s career, and—when hate crimes touched her life...
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HIDDEN FIGURES: THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BLACK WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts,...
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THE INVISIBLES: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES IN THE WHITE HOUSE
THE INVISIBLES: Slavery Inside The White House and How It Helped Shape America is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion’s most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them....
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HANNAH MARY TABBS AND THE DISEMBODIED TORSO: A TALE OF RACE, SEX, AND VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest.As...
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DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM
"Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development ofthird world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominentrole."--Library JournalThis classic work, firstpublished in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation ofscholars and activists at the forefront of liberation...
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