Politics
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...
$40.00
Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Publisher: Beacon Press A masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it.Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond’s Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a...
$29.95
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Books A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written...
$30.00
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...
$28.00
No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History
Publisher: Amistad Press 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,...
$17.99
Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest
Publisher: Beacon Press An AudioFile Best Audiobook of 2020The first in-depth biography of the legendary singer and “Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” who combatted racism and prejudice through her music.Odetta channeled her anger and despair into some of the most powerful...
$28.95
On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC Award-winning constitutional law historian, Lawrence Goldstone examines case-based evidence to reveal the court's longstanding support for white supremacy (often under the guise of "states rights") and how that bias has allowed the court to solidify its position...
$26.00
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
Publisher: Simon & Schuster In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King’s early years and...
$25.00
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
Publisher: ABRAMS In words and photographs, Power to the People is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded 50 years ago in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale’s, with contributions by other former party members;...
$42.00
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers...
$30.00
Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Publisher: Melville House Publishing “All I can say is that I’m a shaker-upper. That’s exactly what I am.” —Shirley ChisholmWhen Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for the democratic presidential nomination in 1972, she became the first Black candidate for a...
$16.99
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
Publisher: Metropolitan Books A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceThe fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of “Klan Country”In 1969, with America’s cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil...
$29.99
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...
$27.95
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...
$30.00
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 *...
$17.00
The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution
Publisher: Haymarket Books In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to life plus thirty years behind bars. Paul Coates was a community...
$45.00
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...
$26.95
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Publisher: Basic Books This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent...
$30.00
The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
Publisher: Beacon Press An authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint for future generations of activists to follow.Some of the most iconic images of the Civil...
$29.95
To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America
Publisher: New Press An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today’s criminal justice crisis “A deeply researched and propulsively written story of corrupt governance, police brutality, Black resistance, and violent white reaction in turn-of-the-century...
$27.99