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Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the vein of Hidden Figures comes a nonfiction picture book about the Green Book, a travel guide by Victor Hugo Green, a Black postal worker fr...
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Ghost Boys
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Large Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluenc...
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Freedom Dreams (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION): The Black Radical Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and thei...
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Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /What do you get when dare-devil Jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash? Nigeria. Formation: From ...
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Finding Langston
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookWinner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionWhen eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them fr...
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Defying Jim Crow: African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws, designe...
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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion...
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Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /In 1957, nine teenagers were chosen to be the first black students to attend all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. A small grou...
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Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to...
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Christopher Paul Curtis 3-Book Boxed Set: The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963; Bud, Not Buddy; The Mighty Miss Malone
PaperbackOriginal price $25.97Original price $25.97 - Original price $25.97Original price $25.97Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /From the Newberry Medal and Corretta Scott King Award winning author, three bestselling novels that have been called "a modern classic" by NPR and ...
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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
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 Black ReadsAngela Joy and Janelle Washington’s Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movemen...
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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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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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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 Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Library BindingOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive ac...
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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
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 Black ReadsThe Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating and significant events in United States history, and yet students r...
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Because Claudette
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From NYT bestselling author Tracey Baptiste comes a singular picture book that is both a biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activis...
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Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream and You
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /With poetic text and dynamic art, award-winning creators Carole Boston Weatherford and James E. Ransome use key moments from Dr. Martin Luther Ki...
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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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Angel of Greenwood
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink is a piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the “Black Wall Street,” and a...
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Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality After World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitc...
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Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality After World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitc...
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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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All Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story from the Great Migration
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Schooltrain! Schooltrain! Don’t be late! The school bell rings at half past eight!” This tender family story, inspired by the author’s own, illu...
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