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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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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Alex Haley
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An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.... ( read more)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Frederick Douglass
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Unabridged republication of 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave' written by Himself, published by The Anti-Slavery Office, Boston, 1945. New Introductory note.... ( read more)
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The Measure of a Man (Facets)
by Martin Luther 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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Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir
by Karl Fleming
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Fleming crafts a remarkable and moving memoir of growing up an orphan in the rough South, becoming a "Newsweek" reporter and covering the most brutal--though often inspiring--aspects of the civil rights revolution.... ( read more)
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Before Jim Crow : the Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia (00 Edition)
by Jane Elizabeth Dailey
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This innovative book examines the most successful interracial coalition in the nineteenth-century South, Virginia's Readjuster Party, and uncovers a surprising degree of fluidity in postemancipation southern politics.... ( read more)
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The Bondwoman's Narrative
by Hannah Crafts
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When Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., saw a modest auction catalogue listing for an "Unpublished Original Manuscript," he knew he could be on the verge of a major literary find. After exhaustive research, he found that the handwritten manuscript he had... ( read more)
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Burning All Illusions: Writings from the Nation on Race
by Paula Giddings
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Burning All Illusions is a collection from The Nation archives of the best writing on race and civil rights from the magazine's founding in 1865 to the present. It features selections by such insurgent American writers as Martin Luther King, Jr... ( read more)
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Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War
by Bruce Levine
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In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the most courageous of our slaves" be trained as soldiers... ( read more)
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The Last of the Black Emperors
by Jonetta Rose Barras
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In 1991, the world watched, transfixed, as Marion Barry, the controversial mayor of Washington, D.C., appeared on videotape smoking crack cocaine. His subsequent trial, conviction, and imprisonment made headlines, as did his return to civilian life, his... ( read more)
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