BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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Remembering Emmett Till
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you’ll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rig...
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Black Folktales of the Muscle Shoals - Slavery to Success
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Most Black folks had never traveled many miles from the area where they were born, but after the Civil War, others moved to northern cities seeking...
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Uncle George and Me: Two Southern Families Confront a Shared Legacy of Slavery
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In Uncle George and Me, author Bill Sizemore tells the story of his slave-owning Virginia ancestors, their slaves, and those slaves' descendants--a...
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Daughters of the Dream: Eight Girls from Richmond Who Grew Up in the Civil Rights Era
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Understanding race in America--its history of oppression, inequality, inequity, prejudice, and discrimination--has been a journey for many, even fo...
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Daughters of the Dream: Eight Girls from Richmond Who Grew Up in the Civil Rights Era
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Understanding race in America--its history of oppression, inequality, inequity, prejudice and discrimination--has been a journey for many, even for...
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Arkansas Slave Narratives - Parts 5 & 6: 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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Arkansas Slave Narratives - Parts 3 & 4: 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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Arkansas Slave Narratives - Parts 1 & 2: 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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Mississippi & 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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Arkansas Slave Narratives - Part 7: 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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Alabama 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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Gourdvine Black and White: Slavery and the Kilby Families of the Virginia Piedmont
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Gourdvine Black and White is the history, biography, and genealogy of one family divided into two by race and the time in which they lived. For fou...
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Gourdvine Black and White: Slavery and the Kilby Families of the Virginia Piedmont
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Gourdvine Black and White is the history, biography, and genealogy of one family divided into two by race and the time in which they lived. For fou...
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The Class of 1968: A Thread through Time
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95Original price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Born in the late 1940's and early 50's and raised in a segregated town in southern Mississippi, a group of Black girls and boys came of age togethe...
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African Americans of Alexandria, Virginia: Beacons of Light in the Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Sitting just south of the nation's capital, Alexandria has a long and storied history." "Still, little is known of Alexandria's twentieth-century A...
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Voices of Black South Carolina: Legend & Legacy
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Did you know that eighty-eight years before Rosa Parks s historic protest, a courageous black woman in Charleston kept her seat on a segregated str...
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Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781540213938 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: History Press Library Editions Publication Date: 06-29-2015 Pages: 146 Produ...
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African Americans of New Orleans
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Enslaved Africans and free people of color of Louisiana deserve the title of "Founding Fathers" just as much as the French, the Spanish, and the Am...
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Bridge Builders of Nauck/Green Valley: Past and Present
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Arlington County, Virginia's oldest African American community, the Nauck community, which dates back to 1844, is rich in history and abundant with...
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Avidly Reads Passages
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /"What is the value of Black life in America?" In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel--the slave ship,...
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Marking Time, Making Place: A Chronological History of Blacks in New Orleans Since 1718
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Most of the world has seen pictures of the devastation of New Orleans after being hit by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. But few know about the s...
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Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight Marcia Herman's ...
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Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /"The history books may write it Reverend King was born in Atlanta, and then came to Montgomery, but we feel that he was born in Montgomery in the s...
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The Rest of the Dream: The Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /" In The Rest of the Dream, Lyman Johnson, grassroots civil rights leader, tells his own story. All four of Johnson's grandparents were slaves in T...
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