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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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August Wilson Century Cycle
HardcoverOriginal price $250.00Original price $250.00 - Original price $250.00Original price $250.00Current price $181.99$181.99 - $181.99Current price $181.99| /Series introduction by John Lahr with individual volumes introduced by Laurence Fishburne, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney, Marion McClinton, Toni Mor...
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Ballast
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife ...
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Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: The Power of the Ballot
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Victorine Quille Adams was a Baltimore native and the first African American woman elected to the city council. Born in 1912, she lived through str...
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Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813913322 Media Type: Paperback(New Edition) Publisher: Museum of the Confederacy Publication Date: 04-29-1997 Pages: 2...
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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African A...
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Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South
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 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown.Black beauty...
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Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Dust and Determination After the Civil War, emancipated slaves who didn't want to pick cotton or operate an elevator headed west to find work and a...
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentar...
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Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The history of black Freemasonry from Boston and Philadelphia in the late 1700s through the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement • Examines the...
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Black Like Me
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH "One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down...
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African Americans in Boyle County
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /African Americans have lived in Boyle County, Kentucky, since the first settlement of the area in 1775. Mostly enslaved, by the Civil War, the coun...
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Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A "daring, urgent, and transformative" (Brené Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead) exploration of Black achievement in a white...
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African Americans of Houston
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Texas is a Southern state, and in many ways, Houston is a typical Southern city. While Houston did not experience the types or degrees of racial vi...
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Blacks in the Adirondacks: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Blacks in the Adirondacks: A History tells the story of the many African Americans who settled in or passed through this rural, mountainous region ...
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African Americans of Galveston
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In the 19th century, Galveston shores were a gateway for immigrants to Texas and destinations beyond. Slaves, the forced immigrants, were brought t...
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Blm: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly ris...
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Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground...
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Brown v. Board and the Transformation of American Culture: Education and the South in the Age of Desegregation
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legally sanctioned segregation in American public schools, brought issues of racial equality to the fore...
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership--this is the fiction that shaped African American cu...
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Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation in up...
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Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Cherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident,...
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Child: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /2023 Southern Book Prize Nonfiction Finalist - A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book - A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white ...
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. ...
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