Nonfiction - Black Reads
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Deep Ellum and Central Track: The Other Side of Dallas/Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A new edition of the biography of Dallas' own Deep Ellum. Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graff...
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Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Explore accounts of Oklahoma's Freedmen as told by their descendants in these stories of resistance and resilience on the Western frontier.The Free...
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Notes From Diverse Reads This riveting conversation among journalists, historians, poets, novelists, essayists and photographers lends a Technic...
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The harrowing account of the black Southern educators who "bravely pressed on for justice in schools" (The New York Review of Books) even as the ...
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Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times--from civil ...
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The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an...
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Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who...
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The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State
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 definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "mo...
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Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jac...
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Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom stru...
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The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route for a New Orleans slave-auction...
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The Black Washingtonians: The Anacostia Museum Illustrated Chronology
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00Original price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The Black WashingtoniansTHE ANACOSTIA MUSEUM ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGYA history of African American life in our nation's capital, in words and pictu...
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The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed an African American teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesan...
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Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator an...
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and c...
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Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of "The Town of George" in 1751 to the Present Day, 30th Anniversary Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Black Georgetown Remembered is a compelling journey through more than two hundred years of history. This one-of-a-kind book invites readers to co...
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among...
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Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /After reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family. "I was a stranger in a strange land," she said later. "My father, my mother, my...
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Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A classic, radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781608467877 Media Type: Paper...
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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E....
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Mostly probably a hoax, this letter to slave owners in the ante-bellum American South purports to advise on how to manage a slave population. The...
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Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator an...
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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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Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book PrizeBenjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist“An insightful, powerful, and moving book.”—Kevin Boyle, author of A...
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