History
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 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...
$27.95
The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white. Brutal slavery existed all over the New World, but only America followed emancipation with a twisted system of...
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Revised)
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books Read the story behind the award-winning film Judas and the Black MessiahOn December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancée. Deborah Johnson described how the police pulled her...
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The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
Publisher: Grove Press In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impoverished, terrorized by white violence, and denied the basic rights of citizenship. As the Democrats swept into the White House on a wave...
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Publisher: Penguin Books 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...
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The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
Publisher: New York University Press A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiersThough both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of...
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The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States (Revised)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and...
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Publisher: Simon & Schuster * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017 *...
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The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell: Speed, Grace, and the Negro Leagues
Publisher: Abrams Image The first full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer James “Cool Papa” Bell (1903–1991) was a legend in black baseball, a lightning fast switch hitter elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in...
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The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of...
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The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question.What does it mean to be an American? The story of the...
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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Publisher: Amistad Press 2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers...
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The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities
Publisher: Dafina Books This comprehensive history of African American fraternities and sororities celebrates the spirit of Black Excellence in higher education that has produced American leaders in politics, sports, arts, and culture such as Kamala Harris, Colin Kaepernick, Michael Jordan, Thurgood...
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The Essential Kerner Commission Report
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation Recognizing that an historic study of American racism and police violence should become part of today’s canon, Jelani Cobb contextualizes it for a new generation. The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King...
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The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency...
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The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold
Publisher: Beacon Press The story of the 13 courageous black men who integrated the officer corps of the US Navy during World War II—leading desegregation efforts across America and anticipating the civil rights movementThrough oral histories and original interviews with...
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
Publisher: Dutton Books One of The New York Times's 11 Books we Recommend This Week | One of Oprah Daily's 20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May | One of The Oklahoman's 15 books to help you learn about the Tulsa Race...
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The History of Gangster Rap: From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form
Publisher: Abrams Image The History of Gangster Rap is a deep dive into one of the most fascinating subgenres of any music category to date. Sixteen detailed chapters, organized chronologically, examine the evolution of gangster rap, its main players, and the...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment WeeklyNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL”...
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The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press From the bestselling author of Washington’s Immortals and The Unknowns, an important new chronicle of the American Revolution heralding the heroism of the men from Marblehead, Massachusetts On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced...
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