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North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communitie...
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Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions"
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /In the summer of 1831, a band of some forty slaves led by Nat Turner attacked slave-owning residents of Southampton County, Virginia. One of the ...
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Nashville, Tennessee
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From Nashville's earliest days as a pioneer town in Middle Tennessee, it would be nothing without its African American community.Like many cities o...
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Mardi Gras Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Mardi Gras Indians explores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting p...
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Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz h...
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Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz h...
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Car...
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /While visiting family in Mississippi in August 1955, Emmett Till allegedly whistled at a white woman working behind the counter of a crossroads c...
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Justice Pursued: The Exoneration of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /An in-depth look at the reversal of a wrongful conviction in a noteworthy example of the justice system seeking to correct mistakes of the past In ...
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Justice Pursued: The Exoneration of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /An in-depth look at the reversal of a wrongful conviction in a noteworthy example of the justice system seeking to correct mistakes of the past In...
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Jim Crow's Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The last remnant of the racist Redeemer agenda in the Louisiana's legal system, the nonunanimous jury-verdict law permits juries to convict crimina...
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Integrating the Charleston Police Force: Stories of the Pioneers
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The civil rights era in the United States was a turbulent time of struggle and protest, with groups making history all across the nation. African A...
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Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781643364377 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Publication Date: 01-09-2024 Pages: 240
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I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781496831620 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Publication Date: 02-04-2021 Pages: 152 Prod...
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Historic Zion Cemetery in Memphis
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Discover an Historic Hidden Treasure in African American History With more than 30,000 interred in its 15 acres, Zion Cemetery is the largest Afri...
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Historic Black Neighborhoods of Raleigh
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The story of Raleigh's African American communities begins before the Civil War. Towns like Oberlin Village were built by free people of color in t...
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Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage. Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest...
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Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive...
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Generations of Somerset Place: From Slavery to Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Located in the rural northeastern part of North Carolina, Somerset was cumulatively home to more than 800 enslaved blacks and four generations of a...
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Freedom's Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon...
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Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Like the renowned classics Praying for Sheetrock and North Toward Home , Ever Is a Long Time captures the spirit and feel of a small Southern tow...
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Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The National Council of Churches established the Delta Ministry in 1964 to further the cause of civil rights in Mississippi—the southern state wi...
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Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality
PaperbackOriginal price $22.50Original price $22.50 - Original price $22.50Original price $22.50Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A concise overview of 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity, ...
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Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /One of Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018, The New York TimesOne of John Warner’s Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago TribuneNamed one of the “Bes...
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