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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

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“A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... (read more)
 
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Civil Rights Movement

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Alex Haley

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Slavery and Reconstruction

Slaves in the Family
by Edward Ball

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Slaves in the Family is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for nonfiction and hailed by The New Yorker as "a brilliant blend of archival research and oral history." First-time author and award-winning journalist Edward Ball confronts the legacy... (read more)
 
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Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X

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Slave Narratives

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library)
by Frederick Douglass

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Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking... (read more)
 
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Black Heritage

Three Negro Classics
by John Hope Franklin

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UP FROM SLAVERY The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for... (read more)
 
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Martin Luther King Jr

Measure of a Man (01 Edition)
by Martin Luther Jr. King

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Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader contains the theological roots of his political and social philosophy of nonviolent activism.... (read more)
 
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Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by Pauline E Hopkins

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After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina
by David Dante Troutt

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Leading African-American scholars use post-hurricane Louisiana as a window into 21st century Black America.... (read more)
 
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
by Taylor Branch

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Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the... (read more)
 
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Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
by George Breitman

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<div>These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for abolishing racial inequality in the United States underwent a vast transformation... (read more)
 
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Black Civilization Studies

Black Athena Revisited
by Mary Lefkowitz

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Was Western civilization founded by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians? Can the ancient Egyptians usefully be called black? Did the ancient Greeks borrow religion, science, and philosophy from the Egyptians and Phoenicians? Have scholars ignored the... (read more)
 
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Kwanzaa

Kwanzaa Crafts: Gifts & Decorations for a Meaningful & Festive Celebration
by Marcia O Mcnair

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..".restores and reinforces principles of the true holiday season...defines each day with the principle, its candle color, symbol, a descriptive story of poem, and a bunch of make-it-now crafts...Recipes, too, are easy to imitate, from banana bread as a... (read more)
 
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Folklore

African Folktales in the New World (Folkloristics)
by William Bascom

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These essays, devoted to traditional narratives found in Africa and in the New World, represent the last major research project of William Bascom (1912-1981), eminent authority on African art and folklore. His intention was to demonstrate the African... (read more)
 
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Picturing the New Negro: Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity (Culture America)
by Caroline Goeser

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During the 1920s and 1930s, black artists and writers achieved something totally unprecedented: they created a new image of African Americans that truly reflected their times as well as their history. In so doing, they set the artistic agenda of the... (read more)
 
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama

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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a... (read more)
 
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
by Melba Pattill Beals

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Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas's Central High School in 1957. For Melba and her friends it marked their transformation into reluctant warriors--on a battlefield that helped shape the civil... (read more)
 
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