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12 Million Black Voices
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Fa...
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A Brief Moment in the Sun: Francis Cardozo and Reconstruction in South Carolina
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /A Brief Moment in the Sun is the first scholarly biography of Francis Lewis Cardozo, one of the most talented and influential African Americans to ...
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A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /In A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue that Baltimore is ke...
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A Guidebook to Virginia's African American Historical Markers
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Virginia encompasses "this nation's longest continuous experience of Afro-American life and culture," esteemed scholar Armstead L. Robinson has wri...
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A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism.On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyl...
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A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781665905145 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 06-13-2023 Pages: 384
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A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...
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A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Published in cooperation with Oregon Black Pioneers A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940, remains the most comprehensive ...
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A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Author Tony Kail traces Memphis's colorful Hoodoo heritage from the arrival of Africans in Shelby County to the growth of conjure culture in juke...
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A Tour on the Underground Railroad Along the Ohio River
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Running for 664 miles along Kentucky's border, the Ohio River provided a remarkable opportunity for the enslaved to escape to free soil in Indiana ...
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Abigail Field Mott's the Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano: A Scholarly Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition. In...
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Abolitionists of South Central Pennsylvania
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Experience the history of the antislavery movement in South Central Pennsylvania, a hotspot for both slave catchers and abolitionists alike.Author ...
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African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Examines what it means to be African and American through the stories of recent West African immigrantsAfrican & American tells the story of ...
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African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.This collection brings together nearly three decades o...
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African Americans Color Line in Ohio: 1915-1930
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Writing in true social history tradition, William W. Giffin presents a magisterial study of African Americans focusing on times that saw the culmin...
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African Americans in Tangipahoa & St. Helena Parishes
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Tangipahoa and St. Helena are two of the eight Florida Parishes in southeast Louisiana. In 1810, St. Helena Parish was founded, and Tangipahoa Pari...
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African Americans of Tampa, Florida (Images of America Series)
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Tampa has a fascinating past that has been wonderfully documented with one exception: African Americans. This culturally rich community is virtua...
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Notes From Black ReadsFrom the esteemed author of Paul Revere's Ride and Champlain's Dream, African Founders is a work of extraordinary scope, a...
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Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but neverthel...
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Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, and other leaders of the civil rights movement, Howard Thurman was a crucial figure in the ...
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A People's History of Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Known variously as “‘the Windy City,”’ “‘the City of Big Shoulders,”’ or “‘Chi-Raq,”’ Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely dem...
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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /"I highly recommend reading this supplement in conjunction with Ms. Stowe's novel to gain a better understanding of the history of our nation." —...
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (National Book Award Winner)
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three genera...
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All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Winner of the Gold Medal for Memoir/Biography from the Military Writers Society of AmericaA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“A whale of...
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