Nonfiction - Black Reads
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Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /"I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin L...
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Operation Breadbasket: An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966-1971
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson’s Operation ...
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Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /“Black Boys Like Me ignited parts of me I honestly didn't believe any book could ever know. . . . Seldom do incredibly titled books earn their ti...
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Saying It Loud: 1966--The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Mark Whitaker “writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet” (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of the momentous year that redefined t...
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Can't Break the African Spirit
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /It is hard for certain people to accept that we are living in a world dominated by a small number of supremacists. That everything is governed by t...
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Midnight Murders on Rock Cut Road: Racism, Terrorism, Forensics, Reconstruction
PaperbackOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /A detailed history of the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. FBI documents, participant confessions, newspaper articles, and FBI photos are ...
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The Green Book Vacation Guide-1949 Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $8.85 - Original price $8.85Original price $8.85$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /2022 Reprint of 1949 Edition. The Green Book Vacation Guide was an annual guidebook for African American road trippers. It provided a guide to camp...
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Navigating Local Transitional Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$116.99$116.99 - $116.99Current price $116.99| /In post-war Sierra Leone, a range of transitional justice mechanisms were implemented to address experiences of conflict, violence, and human right...
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Narrating Human Rights in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $52.95 - Original price $52.95Original price $52.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical co...
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Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
Library BindingOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing it...
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Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monu...
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The Federalist Papers
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /"The Federalist Papers" written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, were a series of 85 essays published between 1787 and 1788 to p...
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The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1956 Facsimile Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /2023 Reprint of 1956 Edition. This volume was published in the Fall of 1956. This series was originated and published by African American mailman V...
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Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom While we can all ...
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Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /“[An] inspiring book about the events leading up to the 1960 election, from Dr. King’s imprisonment to student activism in Atlanta to JFK’s campa...
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineere...
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Your Black Friend
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /Ben Passmore's necessary contribution to the dialogue around race in the United States, Your Black Friend is a letter from your black friend to y...
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Daddy, Tell Me a Story: The Life and Legacy of Activist and Attorney John M. Clark
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /One's wisdom, family traditions, and life contributions help to create a legacy. It's our relationship with God and what we do for others that make...
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Daddy, Tell Me A Story
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /One's wisdom, family traditions, and life contributions help to create a legacy. It's our relationship with God and what we do for others that make...
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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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A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their con...
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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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African American Attorneys In Hawaii
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /African American attorneys have a lively, colorful history from Justice Thurgood Marshall to President Barack Obama, both of whom have ties to Hawa...
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A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Black people of Marks, Mississippi, and other rural southern towns were the backbone of the civil rights movement, yet their stories have too r...
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