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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (King Legacy) by Martin Luther King Publisher Comments Martin Luther King, Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 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&... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Publisher Comments Featuring contributions from Andrew Young, Congressman John Lewis, George McGovern, Rosa Parks, and others, this inspiring collection features the milestone speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest orators of the 20th century.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now by Toure Publisher Comments In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Inspired by a president who is unlike any Black man ever seen on our national stage, we are searching for new ways of understanding Blackness. In this... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed Publisher Comments The immensely rich biography of a houseand#8212;Sylvester Manor, on Shelter Island, New Yorkand#8212;and of the unknown Colonial way of life it reveals The acclaimed author and landscape historian Mac Griswold brings alive the story both of the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Harper Barnes Publisher Comments The dramatic and first popular account of one of the deadliest racial confrontations in the 20th century--in East St. Louis in the summer of 1917--which paved the way for the civil rights movement. In the 1910s, half a million African Americans moved... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $8.24 Sale - Hardcover
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Ticket to Exile by Adam David Miller Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Memoir. African American Studies. At age nineteen, A. D. Miller sat in a jail cell. His crime? He passed a white girl a note that read, "I would like to get to know you better." For this he was accused of attempted rape. TICKET TO EXILE... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bone Black #1: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks Publisher Comments Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow Publisher Comments Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews with all of King's surviving... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments Displaying the intellectual rigor, political passion, and personal empathy that have won him acclaim, Dyson offers a searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. He warns that society must acknowledge that Katrina was more than an engineering... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments Over the last 20 years, Michael Eric Dyson has become one of America’s most visible—and quotable—public intellectuals. Whether in his sixteen books, or in countless newspapers, television and radio appearances, or on stages, podiums... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 by James T Campbell Publisher Comments A groundbreaking history of African American journeys back to Africa over the course of three centuries, a book whose enormous accomplishment reveals to us that without understanding the long-evolving place of Africa in the African American imagination... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, JR.'s Death and How It Changed America by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King—the prophet for racial and economic justice in America—ended his final speech... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Autobiography of Martin Luther King JR by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments The remarkable life and times of a man who helped to change the world, compiled after his death from his writings and papers. Reveals his seldom discussed views on many of his contemporaries including Malcolm X and Richard Nixon. 16pp b/w illus.... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E Joseph Publisher Comments “Once in a while a book comes along that projects the spirit of an era; this is one of them . . . Vibrant and expressive . . . A well-researched and well-written work.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer With the rallying cry of “Black... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North by C S Manegold Publisher Comments "C. S. Manegold's admirable clarity, dazzling intelligence, and resourceful reporting well serve the story of the North's participation in U.S. slavery. Ten Hills Farm is a feat of historical excavation, and Manegold's contribution to the study of this... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (John MacRae Books) by Davi Levering Lewis Publisher Comments The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America&... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction by Charles Lane Publisher Comments "Absorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller."Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book Review Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle Over Black Family Life--From LBJ to Obama by James T Patterson Publisher Comments On June 4, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered what he and many others considered the greatest civil rights speech of his career. Proudly, Johnson hailed the new freedoms granted to African Americans due to the newly passed Civil Rights Act and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.24 Sale - Hardcover
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Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Blac) by Cathy Cohen Publisher Comments While Barack Obama's victory led many to believe that America's racial divide had significantly narrowed, the lived experience of many black youth belie this. Young black Americans today continue to be plagued by low levels of employment, high levels of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Sale - Hardcover
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