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Voices of Black South Carolina: Legend & Legacy
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Did you know that eighty-eight years before Rosa Parks s historic protest, a courageous black woman in Charleston kept her seat on a segregated str...
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Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781540213938 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: History Press Library Editions Publication Date: 06-29-2015 Pages: 146 Produ...
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Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University: Building a Legacy of Black History
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and histo...
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African Americans on Martha's Vineyard: From Enslavement to Presidential Visit
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /African Americans of Martha's Vineyard have an epic history. From the days when slaves toiled away in the fresh New England air, through abolition ...
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African Americans of Des Moines and Polk County
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Although African American pioneers arrived in Des Moines, Iowa, in the early 1860s, the population exploded in the 1880s due to the surrounding coa...
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African Americans in Amarillo
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Amarillo became a town in 1887 when merchants opened stores to cater to railroad workers. The first African Americans in the area were Jerry Callaw...
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African Americans of New Orleans
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Enslaved Africans and free people of color of Louisiana deserve the title of "Founding Fathers" just as much as the French, the Spanish, and the Am...
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African Americans in Sewickley Valley
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The African Americans of Sewickley Valley have a history as rich and deep-rooted as the valley itself. Originally pioneered by Quakers and abolitio...
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African Americans of Calvert County
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Nestled between the Chesapeake Bay and the Patuxent River, this tiny peninsula county is home to one of the oldest African American communities, es...
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Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave
PaperbackOriginal price $5.99 - Original price $5.99Original price $5.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /This is a slave narrative written in the mid-19th century before the Civil War. From the preface: " THE present Narrative was first published in Bo...
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Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King ...
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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner, Best History, 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research When Mississippi J...
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Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /One hundred and twenty Black leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs share their wisdom and experience across the centuries in Make Your Own History...
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Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest ...
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Freedom's Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A fascinating study of freedom and slavery, told through the life of an escaped slave who built a life in the Hudson Valley In 1793 James F. Brown ...
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Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /HONORABLE MENTION, HARRY SHAW AND KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES, GIVEN BY THE POP C...
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Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /Despite the fact that most of jazz's major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, cri...
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A Black Intellectual's Odyssey
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In 1969, Martin Kilson became the first tenured African American professor at Harvard University, where he taught African and African American poli...
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Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95Original price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually to...
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DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revoluti...
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Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural ...
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From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration After 1945
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people ...
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The Earliest African American Literatures: A Critical Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in No...
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Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American Sout...
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