BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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Deep Ellum and Central Track: The Other Side of Dallas/Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A new edition of the biography of Dallas' own Deep Ellum. Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graff...
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Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Explore accounts of Oklahoma's Freedmen as told by their descendants in these stories of resistance and resilience on the Western frontier.The Free...
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Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of "The Town of George" in 1751 to the Present Day, 30th Anniversary Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Black Georgetown Remembered is a compelling journey through more than two hundred years of history. This one-of-a-kind book invites readers to co...
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Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book PrizeBenjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist“An insightful, powerful, and moving book.”—Kevin Boyle, author of A...
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America’s history.” —New York Times The definitive account of ...
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Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Lying just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers were murdered during Freedom Summer, Clarke County lay squarely in Mississip...
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner of the American Book Award Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award Winner of the James ...
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Black Boys Burning: The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /On the morning of March 5, 1959, Luvenia Long was listening to gospel music when a news bulletin interrupted her radio program. Fire had engulfed...
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Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Winner, 2022 Ottis Lock Endowment "Best Book" Award from the East Texas Historical Association In Lynching and Leisure, Terry Anne Scott examine...
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Jazz à la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections During ...
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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Democracy Matters) history of American racial exploitation and res...
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African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with ...
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The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on Afri...
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Black Genesis: A Resource Book for African-American Genealogy
HardcoverOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /When this book was originally published in 1978, it was the first book to provide researchers with information on resources and a methodology spe...
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Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY• An “important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant” (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a s...
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African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields. This collection brings together nearly three decade...
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Virginia's Civil Rights Hero Curtis W. Harris Sr.
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In 1924, the Virginia State Legislature passed the Racial Integrity Act. The act banned interracial marriage down to "a single drop" of African blo...
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Desegregation in Northern Virginia Libraries
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A Hidden History of Unequal Access During the Jim Crow era, many public libraries were segregated. The public library plays a fundamental role in c...
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The Struggle of Struggles
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /From 1955 to 1975, Vera Pigee (1924-2007) put her life and livelihood on the line with grassroots efforts for social change in Mississippi, princip...
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The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Examining the historic Black community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey, this book illuminates the intersectionality of life at the village and the ways Bl...
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Shackled Again: From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Journey Through Race Told Through The Stories of Unsung Heroes
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Are we still shackled? In his debut title, author Tony Watkins explores the deep and lasting stain left by the institution of slavery on our countr...
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Melvin Descendant: Sequel of Tumelo
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /After seeing his mother and others die at the hands of the Confederates, Melvin is left searching for the best route to change society. He's faced ...
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In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical site...
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UPROOTED... From Africa to America to Bring Forth Fruit ...In Government and Ministry - Volume I
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Presented in two volumes, "Uprooted... from Africa to America to Bring Forth Fruit," by Zaire Feronz, is a culmination of outstanding achievements ...
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