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Extraordinary, Ordinary People (10 Edition) by Condoleezza Rice Publisher Comments Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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African Americans in the Visual Arts (A to Z of African Americans) by Steven Otfinoski Synopsis Praise for the previous edition: ..".[an] interesting and valuable addition to the subject...well worth the purchase price..."--American Reference Books Annual... (read more) List Price $49.50 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac by Josephine F. Pacheco Publisher Comments Chronicles the harrowing tale of seventy-six slaves from Washington, D.C., who hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in 1848 in a desperate--and ultimately futile--attempt to sail down the Potomac River to freedom in... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $31.02 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction by Michele Mitchell Publisher Comments Mitchell investigates an anxious period in U.S. history when African Americans negotiated domestic relationships, forged institutions, and clashed over strategies intended to preserve themselves as a people. Notions about "racial destiny" informed... (read more) List Price $78.95 Your price: $70.07 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900 by William E. Montgomery Publisher Comments A comprehensive treatment of the black church and the southern environment in which it functioned from 1865 to 1900.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $21.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Let My People Go!: The Miracle of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Robert J. Walker Publisher Comments Perhaps the most extensive book to date ever written on the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Let My People Go! may prove to be the encyclopedia of this pivotal event in American history. While other books written on the boycott primarily focus on the point of... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price: $50.05 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars by Joel Dinerstein Publisher Comments In any age and any given society, cultural practices reflect the material circumstances of people's everyday lives. According to Joel Dinerstein, it was no different in America between the two World Wars -- an era sometimes known as the "machine age... (read more) List Price $22.36 Your price: $19.84 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The New Black Renaissance: The Souls Anthology of Critical African American Studies by Manning Marable Publisher Comments Against a backdrop of multiculturalism and Afrocentricity in the intellectual traditions of African-American Studies, this book sets new standards and directions for the future. It is the first book to systematically address the many themes that have... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class by Robin D. G. Kelley Publisher Comments Robin D. G. Kelley is professor of history and Africana studies at New York University and author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990).... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Atlas of African-American History (Facts on File Library of American History) by James Ciment Publisher Comments With authoritative text and a wealth of full-color maps and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family by Donna L. Franklin Publisher Comments There is a crisis today in the American family, and this crisis has been particularly severe in the African American community. Black women are more likely than ever to bear children as teenagers, to remain single, and to raise their children in poverty.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $46.25 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis by Cyprian Clamorgan Publisher Comments About the Editor Julie Winch is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She is the author of Philadelphia's Black Elite: Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow by Jerrold M. Packard Publisher Comments Chronicles the history of the laws enacted following the conclusion of the Civil War that segregated the South into white and non-white segments, discussing how they were established, justified, and finally dismantled.... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans by Barry A. Crouch Publisher Comments Drawing on a wealth of previously unused documentation in the National Archives, this book offers new insights into the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau and the difficulties faced by Texas Bureau officials, who served in a remote and somewhat isolated... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Black Leadership in America (Studies in Modern History) by John White Publisher Comments A critical examination of these important figures, combined with a useful general survey of modern black American history.... (read more) List Price $87.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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It Happened on the Underground Railroad (It Happened in) by Tricia Marti Wagner Publisher Comments From a riverboat worker who dressed as a woman to the man who mailed himself north, It Happened on the Underground Railroad offers a gripping look at the heroic individuals who became a part of this famous road to freedom. Read about Peter Still, a... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement by Jama Lazerow Publisher Comments Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Since that time, the group that J. Edgar Hoover called “the single greatest threat to the nation’s... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $23.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Black Book by Middleton A Harris Publisher Comments Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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On Cultural Achievements of Ne by Henri Gregoire Publisher Comments "Gregoire presents answers to most of the arguments for innate racial inferiority, even those usually associated with a later period, and also transmits doctrines and beliefs that would later be taken up by black nationalists and Afrocentrists... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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God, Harlem u.s.a: The Father Divine Story by Jill Watts Publisher Comments How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 rise to such social and religious prominence that his followers addressed letters to him simply "God, Harlem U.S.A."? Using hitherto unknown materials, Jill Watts portrays the life and career of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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