by Barack Obama  Publisher Comments “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) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies 
by Alex Haley Publisher Comments Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your Price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Douglas A. Blackmon Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World... (read more) Your Price $29.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Olaudah Equaino Publisher Comments Compelling work traces the formidable journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy and recounts his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, 6 months among the Miskito Indians in Central... (read more) Your Price $0.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Taylor Branch 
Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher Comments “ What treasures these are— mordantly clever and quintessentially human stories about God and the creation of the black race, the devil, preachers wily and foolish, animals, the battle between the sexes, and slaves who outsmart their masters... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Thomas Norman DeWolf Publisher Comments In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Stewart Burns Publisher Comments More than a biography, To the Mountaintop is the history of a turbulent epoch that changed the course of American and world history. Moral warrior and nonviolent apostle; man of God rocked by fury, fear, and guilt; rational thinker driven by emotional... (read more) Your Price $4.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Floyd H Flake Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-390).... (read more) Your Price $1.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
by Marcia O Mcnair Publisher Comments ..".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) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Martin Bernal Synopsis What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Octavia Roge Albert Synopsis Setting out to correct the inadequacies of many written accounts of slavery, the 19th-century American social activist Octavia Albert added her own commentary to the personal narratives of former slaves, and called for the personal acceptance of... (read more) Your Price $2.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Caroline Goeser Synopsis 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) Your Price $34.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Barack Obama
Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Barack Obama Publisher Comments The junior U.S. senator from Illinois speaks out to all Americans on how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can be adapted to such controversial issues as globalization, the function of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your Price $17.50 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
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