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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A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith
by Anna Lisa Cox


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Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, broke laws and barriers to attempt what then seemed impossible: to love one's neighbor as oneself. This is the inspiring, true story of an extraordinary town where blacks and whites lived as equals.... (read more)

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Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676
by T H Breen


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Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, "Myne Owne Ground" has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the... (read more)

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Our America Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman


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Through two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, and now thispowerful book, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have made it their mission to be loud voices from one of this country's darkest places, Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project. Set... (read more)

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Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X
by Michael Eric Dyson


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Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony. The nineties are marked by intense and often angry debates about racial authenticity and "selling out," and the participants in these debates--from politicians to filmmakers to... (read more)

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Come Hell Or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
by Michael Eric Dyson


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When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease, and even death. The majority of these people were black; nearly all were poor. The Federal... (read more)

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Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
by Randall Kennedy


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In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which... (read more)

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The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity
by Stanley Crouch


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Another dance of the bull through the china shop of cliches, The Artificial White Man proves the correctness of Tom Wolfe's observation that Stanley Crouch is "the jazz virtuoso of the American essay." This time out, Crouch focuses his attention on... (read more)

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An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
by William F. Pepper


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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-324) and index.... (read more)

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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
by John Bailey


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It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years... (read more)

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Life of Olaudah Equiano (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Olaudah Equaino


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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)

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Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama
by Steve Dougherty


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The First Biographical Portrait Ever of This Key Political Figure Written by a leading journalist and filled with more than 100 color photographs, this authoritative and up-to-the-moment new biography provides much-needed perspective on one of the most... (read more)

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Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement From 1954 to 1968
by Diane McWhorter


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In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr... (read more)

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April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, JR.'s Death and How It Changed America
by Michael Eric Dyson


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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)

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A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and H
by Harold Courlander


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In A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore, editor Harold Courlander brings together an extensive and unique collection of tales, recollections, epics, traditions, beliefs, myths, historical chronicles, and songs from the numerous Negro cultures of the New... (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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Hoop Dreams: True Story of Hardship and Triumph, the
by Ben Joravsky




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For nearly five years Arthur Ageeand#39;s and William Gatesand#39; remarkable lives were chronicled by a team of filmmakers. Roughly 250 hours of film were devoted to their journeys from the playgrounds to high school competition to college recruitment... (read more)

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A Hungry Heart: A Memoir
by Gordon Parks


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Acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, novelist, and memoirist, Gordon Parks has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. In A Hungry Heart, Parks reflects on the... (read more)

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