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The Street: A Novel
"Petry is the writer we have been waiting for, hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had ...
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Her own powerful story to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor & conviction. The author, a political activist, reflects upon the people & incidents that have influenced her life & ...
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Her own powerful story to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor & conviction. The author, a political activist, reflects upon the people & incidents that have influenced her life & ...
The Black Family in Slavery and ...
An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War., ISBN13: 9780394471167 ISBN10: 0394471164 Material Type: paperback
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln...
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize: from a master historian, the story of Lincoln's―and the nation's―transformation through the crucible o, ISBN...
Crowns: Portraits of Black Women...
An acclaimed photographer and award-winning journalist provide an intimate look at black women who would rather attend church naked than hatless. For countless black women, a church hat, flamboyan...
The Trouble They Seen: Black Peo...
Documents, letters, and journal entries record the impact of Reconstruction on the South and the social, political, economic, educational, and cultural changes affecting blacks, ISBN13: 97803850800...
Celia, A Slave
"Compelling. . . a shocking tale. . . a remarkable account. . . . McLaurin succeeds admirably in using Celia's story to raise larger issues about the meaning of American slavery for both blac, ISBN...
American Patriots: The Story of ...
American Patriots is one of the great untold stories in American history. There have been books on individual black soldiers, but this is the first to tell the full story of the black American mili...
Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragg...
On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of ...
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the twentieth century—Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man. In 1953, El, ISBN...
Sammy: The Autobiography of Samm...
Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925-90) rose from childhood stardom on the vaudeville stage to become one of the most famous African American entertainers of the 1950s and '60s (and the only black member , ISBN...
Like Men of War: Black Troops in...
In this unprecedented work of history, one of America's leading Civil War historians draws from nineteenth-century newspapers, letter, & soldiers' diaries to recreate the experiences of African...
Sing for Your Life: A Story of R...
The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of stardom: "A beautiful tribute to the power of good teachers" (Terry Gross, Fresh , ISBN...
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots...
Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving ...
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