BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Ri...
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Reasons to Persist: A Biography of Isaac Franklin Bradley
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /While America owes a tremendous, invaluable amount of gratitude to Martin Luther King, Jr, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and countless other iconi...
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Missouri Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee & Virginia Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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Indiana Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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Ohio Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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Minnesota's Black Community in the 21st Century
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /While African Americans comprise just five percent of the total population of Minnesota today, the state boasts many successful, creative, and infl...
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African Americans of Des Moines and Polk County
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Although African American pioneers arrived in Des Moines, Iowa, in the early 1860s, the population exploded in the 1880s due to the surrounding coa...
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Joseph Strunka A Ceska Chicago Man's Tale of Resilience
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The story of Joseph Strunka is a window into the Czech immigrant enclaves of Chicago during the first half of the 1900s. Born in 1910, he grew up i...
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African Americans in Minnesota
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /African Americans have had a profound influence on the history and culture of Minnesota from its earliest days to the present. Author David Vassar ...
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Lucky Medicine: A Memoir of Success Beyond Segregation
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A remarkable, personal glimpse of Black student life at Indiana University in the early 1960s. In 1961, a skinny African American boy from Indianap...
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Lucky Medicine: A Memoir of Success Beyond Segregation
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /A remarkable, personal glimpse of Black student life at Indiana University in the early 1960s. In 1961, a skinny African American boy from Indianap...
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Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An immersive multigenerational memoir that recounts the hopes, injustices, and triumphs of a Black family fighting for access to the American dream...
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Enslavement and the Underground Railroad in Missouri and Illinois
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The Path to Freedom in Missouri and Illinois People enslaved here experienced the same horrors as those held captive in other states, and their st...
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The Geography of Hate: The Great Migration Through Small-Town America
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The uncomfortable truths that shaped small communities in the midwest During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern sm...
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Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom Burrell
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The ad exec who revolutionized the image of Black Americans in advertising Over a forty-year career, Chicagoan Tom Burrell changed the face of adve...
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Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Freque...
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We Got By: A Black Family's Journey in the Heartland
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Life along the color line in rural Ohio was hard. Being Black often meant feeling frightened and alone. For a family like Ric S. Sheffield's, exami...
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The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In the spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the R...
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Cincinnati's Underground Railroad
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Cincinnati played a large part in creatng a refuge for escaped salaves and in the Underground Railroad movement.Nearly a century after the American...
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Cincinnati
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Fascinating images of Cincinnati's African-American heritage.Located on the banks of the Ohio River, Cincinnati was incorporated as a town in 1802....
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Better Homes of South Bend, Indiana: An American Story of Courage
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781467118651 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: History Press The Publication Date: 09-07-2015 Pages: 144 Product Dimensions...
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Another Ann Arbor
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A fascinating look at Ann Arbor's heroic African-American communitiy's journey and progress. A must-have for African-American and Michigan history ...
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African Americans in Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Here is the black Chicago family album, of African Americans leaving the violent, racist South and goin' to Chicago to find the American Dream.The ...
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