History
Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and a Story of Reconciliation
Publisher: Pegasus Books An illuminating journey to racial reconciliation experienced by two Americans—one black and one white. The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre, arguably the worst in our country’s history, has been widely unknown for the better part of a century, thanks...
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Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance
Publisher: Beacon Press In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her own rhythmic beginnings.Many learned of Ntozake Shange’s ability to blend movement with...
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Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South
Publisher: Little Brown and Company The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou2021 Chautauqua Prize FinalistThe "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).In 1966 in a small...
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Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation 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...
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Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching
Publisher: Verso A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artworkIn late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and...
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Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 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...
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Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
Publisher: Sourcebooks The triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre—and the world—forever. "This musical introduced Black excellence to the Great White Way. Broadway was forever changed and we, who stand on the shoulders of...
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYThe “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding...
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pulitzer Prize, History, 2019 The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists...
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Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the...
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God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop
Publisher: Dey Street Books An NPR Best Book of the Year "Without God Save the Queens, it is possible that the contributions of dozens of important female hip-hop artists who have sold tens of millions of albums, starred in monumental films,...
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His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
Publisher: Random House #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from the...
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Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
Publisher: Running Press Adult The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.The...
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Howard Thurman and the Disinherited: A Religious Biography
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company The faith journeys of a major mentor to the civil rights movement Teacher. Minister. Theologian. Writer. Mystic. Activist. No single label can capture the multiplicity of Howard Thurman’s life, but his influence is evident...
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I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of James Meredith...
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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize.Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have...
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Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow
Publisher: University of Illinois Press Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C. J. Walker was celebrated as America's first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s. Known as a leading African American entrepreneur, Walker was also devoted to an activist...
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Madam C.J. Walker: The Making of an American Icon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Madam C. J. Walker—reputed to be America’s first self-made woman millionaire—has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at...
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My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
Publisher: Amistad Press The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and...
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Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux "[A] masterly and often riveting account of King’s ordeal and the 1960 'October Surprise' that may have altered the course of modern American political history." —Raymond Arsenault, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)The authors of Douglass...
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