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The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) burst onto the art scen...
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Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?
PaperbackOriginal price $5.99 - Original price $5.99Original price $5.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /It's up, up, and away with the Tuskegee Airmen, a heroic group of African American military pilots who helped the United States win World War II....
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1001 Inventions and Awesome Facts from Muslim Civilization: Official Children's Companion to the 1001 Inventions Exhibition
HardcoverOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there w...
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We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The inspiring story of the 1963 Birmingham Children's March as seen through the eyes of four young people at the center of the action.The 1963 Bi...
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One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"One Last Word is the work of a master poet." —Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The CrossoverFrom the New York Times bestselling ...
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The Slave Who Loved Caviar
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught relationship between Jean-Michel Basquiat and ...
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Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“As erudite and sophisticated as hooks is, she is also eminently readable, even exhilarating.” —BooklistIn Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cu...
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
PaperbackOriginal price $5.99 - Original price $5.99Original price $5.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from—there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedo...
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African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“In African Icons, Baptiste engages in the hard work of unveiling the myths about the African continent to young readers . . . This is a great be...
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What Was Reconstruction?
Library BindingOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the same style as the New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series, What Was? focuses on compelling historical events, great battles, protests,...
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What Is Juneteenth?
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Discover more about Juneteenth, the important holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, a group ...
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Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Uncover the lives of thirteen African-Americans who fought during the Revolutionary War. Even as American Patriots fought for independence from...
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Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
HardcoverOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Teacher's Choices, International Literacy Association (ILA) Carter G. Woodson Award, National Council for the Social Studies Parents' Choice Silv...
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I am Martin Luther King, Jr.
HardcoverOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The eighth biography in this New York Times bestselling series features one of America's greatest civil rights heroes, Martin Luther King, Jr. (C...
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To Be a Slave
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /What was it like to be a slave? Listen to the words and learn about the lives of countless slaves and ex-slaves, telling about their forced jour...
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Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Learn about the civil rights activist Ella Baker in this inspiring picture book from Sibert Honor winner Patricia Hruby Powell and Caldecott Hono...
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Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A proud, empowering introduction to African American history that celebrates and honors enslaved ancestorsYour story begins in Africa. Your Afric...
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Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerLifting as We Climb details the part of the women’s suffrage movement most of us won’t learn about in school. While mos...
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William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes a remarkable picture book biography of William Still, known as Father of the Underground Rai...
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The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation's oldest student who did just that, in this pictur...
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A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /This mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in...
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Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Harry Benjamin (1885-1986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine. He was physician to tra...
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Daddy's Little Princess
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Thirteen year old co-author Morgan E. Taylor thinks that every little girl should believe she's a Princess. Unfortunately, most of the common image...
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Birmingham Sunday
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Jane Addams Children's Honor BookNCTE Orbis Pictus Honor BookKirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the YearThis nonfiction picture book focuses ...
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