Social Science
Officer Clemmons: A Memoir
Publisher: Catapult This intimate debut memoir by the man known to the world as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood's Officer Clemmons, who made history as the first African American actor to have a recurring role on a children's television program, "doesn't ask...
$26.00
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
Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
Publisher: Flatiron Books The riveting story of four men―Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige―whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond.In July...
$29.99
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Publisher: Abrams Image A New York Times Notable Book of 2020The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black...
$35.00
Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books “Overnight Code is a must-read for anyone seeking inspiration to overcome social barriers and to shatter glass ceilings.” —Carolyn Porter, Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate The inspiring story of a groundbreaking African American female engineer who...
$26.99
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
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
River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans
Publisher: Cityfiles Press In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had...
$34.95
Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books Say I’m Dead is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and trans-formation through five generations of interracial relationships. Fearful of prison time—or lynching—for violating Indiana’s antimiscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson’s black father...
$28.99
Slave Stealers: True Accounts of Slave Rescues: Then and Now
Publisher: Shadow Mountain In the 1800s American South, Harriet Jacobs is enslaved and tormented by a cruel master. He relentlessly attempts to force her into a sexual union, and, when rebuffed, he separates her from her children and spends a...
$26.99
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
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
Publisher: Basic Books 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...
$32.00
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Publisher: Bold Type Books The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive...
$32.99
Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
Publisher: 37 Ink This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors...
$27.00
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
Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH Textures synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the diaspora, Black hair is here addressed...
$39.95
The Annotated African American Folktales
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation * Winner of the 2018 NAACP award for Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction* Recipient of the 2019 Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice AwardThese nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy...
$39.95
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...
$17.99
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...
$30.00
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...
$35.00