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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Anatomy of a Lynching: The Killing of Claude Neal by James R Mcgovern Book News Annotation An unaltered reprint of the Louisiana State University Press edition of 1982. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley Publisher Comments If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody Publisher Comments Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story—the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Celia, a Slave by Melton Alonza McLaurin Publisher Comments Recounts the story of Celia, a slave in antebellum Missouri who killed her master after five years of sexual abuse at his hands and was later found guilty of murder and... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $6.17 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&n Classics Trade Paper) by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book #52: The Black Holocaust for Beginners by S E Anderson Synopsis Breathing new life into a horrific period of history, this book takes readers back to the roots of African slavery in 1441 and brings them forward. Told from the point of view of one of the captive African women, the story shares her suffering, shame and... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard by Belinda E Hurmence Publisher Comments The idea of interviewing slaves about their experiences dates to the 1760s, when abolitionists first began to publish slave narratives as a way to educate the public to the horrors of slavery. From 1929 to 1932, the social sciences department at Fisk... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Walking on Water by Randall Kenan Publisher Comments Walking on Water is a profoundly moving and provocative account--both timely and enduring--of the thoughts, the feelings, the lives, of African Americans in the post-Civil Rights era of the nineties, by the highly praised author of Let the Dead Bury... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions) by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments The impassioned abolitionist and eloquent orator provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. Published in 1845 to quell... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Ice by Lorene Cary Publisher Comments In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp"... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions) by Harriet Jacobs Publisher Comments This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her... (read more) Your price: $2.50 Used - 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why We Can't Wait (Signet Classics) by Martin Luther Jr King Publisher Comments In this account of the struggle for civil rights in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, and assessment of the work ahead to bring about full equality for African Americans, Dr. King offers an analysis of the events that propelled the Civil Rights movement to... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X Publisher Comments An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Publisher Comments Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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African American Islam by Aminah Beve Mccloud Publisher Comments This volume challenges these myths by contextualizing the experience and history of African American Islamic life. The book presents an overview of the history of African American Islamic expressions in the 20th century and examines the diverse... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches by Myrl Evers Williams Publisher Comments The Autobiography of Medgar Evers is the first and only comprehensive collection of the words of slain civil rights hero Medgar Evers. Evers became a leader of the civil rights movement during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He established NAACP chapters... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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From Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones: The Life Experiences of Fifty Professional African American Women by Kathleen F Slevin Publisher Comments The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Huey Newton. With few exceptions, black women have been perceived as supporting actresses; as behind... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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