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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My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience
by Juan Williams


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More than 30 people tell personal stories about the nonviolent struggle for civil rights, then and now, not only the leaders but also ordinary citizens who bear witness to transforming moments when they suddenly found the courage to try to change things.... (read more)

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Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture, and Religion
by Michael Eric Dyson


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Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as "whiteness" as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black... (read more)

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Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views from a Black Man's World
by Ralph Wiley


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In this collection of essays, Wiley--in an immediate and unmistakable style--takes on popular culture as it relates to Black Americans today, adding a new dimension to the dialogue about race. Everyone and everything make their appearance: from Marion... (read more)

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On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
by Kareem Abdul Jabbar


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Soon to be released as a major documentary produced by Spike Lee, this autobiography explores Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's personal journey to become the man he is today--a basketball superstar, jazz enthusiast, historian, and African-American icon. of photos.... (read more)

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A Voice from the South (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by Anna Julia Cooper


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"A first-class series of essays that cut to the heart of the issues as much today as when it was first published."--Robert Carr, George Mason University "A very useful and thorough presentation of black woman's lives during the post-reconstruction era."--... (read more)

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Artificial White Man
by Stanley Crouch


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In this penetrating collection of original essays, legendary gadfly and esteemed critic Stanley Crouch tackles the notion on authenticity — what it is, what it isn't, and what we make of it, for good or for bad. While the question of who's the real... (read more)

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I See Black People: The Rise and Fall of African Amercian Owned Television and Radio Minority Owned Television and Radio
by Kristal Zook


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Why are so few radio and television stations currently owned by African Americans?  The airwaves are public resources; they belong to the people. And yet minorities, who form 33 percent of the population, control only 3 percent of the broadcast... (read more)

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King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Charles Johnson


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"A magnificent photo album of a magnificent man in magnificent times., Susan Brownmiller, "New York Times Book Review Through rich words and stirring black-and-white... (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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Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
by James T Campbell


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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)

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She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Herbert Kohl


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In celebration of the 50th anniversary of that famous moment in the history of the civil rights movement, Kohl has expanded and updated his original discussion of Rosa Parks. The book also includes a teacher's guide.... (read more)

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Why I Love Black Women
by Michael Eric Dyson


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In this open love letter to black women everywhere, Dyson celebrates the strength and beauty of African-American women, from Miss James, his grammar school teacher, to author Toni Morrison.... (read more)

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White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
by Shelby Steele


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In 1955 the murderers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted of their crime, undoubtedly because they were white. Forty years later, O. J. Simpson, whom many thought would be charged with murder by virtue of the DNA evidence against... (read more)

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All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
by Henry Mayer


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'\"Superb....[A] richly researched, passionately written book.\"—William E. Cain, Boston Globe Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry Mayer\'s National Book Award finalist biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to life... (read more)

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Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
by Randall Kennedy


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In the manner of his controversial national bestseller "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word," Kennedy grapples brilliantly with another stigma of racial discourse--examining the meaning of selling out, atomizing the ways in which the term is... (read more)

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Arts and Letters: an A-to-Z Reference of Writers, Musicians, and Artists of the African American Experience (Africana)
by Kwame Anthony Appiah


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Here's an eminently readable reference of African-American contributions to the arts, faithfully adapted from the original one-volume encyclopedia "Africana. Essays on such influential black figures as the writer and activist Amiri Baraka; singers Billie... (read more)

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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War
by Heather Richardson


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The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War.  Instead, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners gradually hammered out a national identity... (read more)

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