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by David Blight  Publisher Comments Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of the past, are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.... (read more)  List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ralph Ellison Publisher Comments Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harriet A Jacobs Publisher Comments One of the most memorable slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl illustrates the overarching evil and the pervasive depravity of the institution of slavery. Jacobs describes, in great and painful detail, her life as a... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $0.49 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments The acclaimed "hip-hop intellectual" exposes the raw nerve of class and generational warfare in black America with this provocative defense of impoverished African Americans. Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Juan Williams Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-297) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William F Pepper Publisher Comments The definitive account of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, published on the 40th anniversary of his death. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the most powerful and eloquent champion of the poor and oppressed in US history, and at the height of his... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments By 1944, over six thousand ex-slaves had written moving stories of their captivity, providing a prolific testimony to the horrors of bondage and servitude. Noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. compiles four of the most important "slave narratives" in... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by W E B Du Bois Publisher Comments In this founding work in the literature of black protest, Du Bois eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price $1.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sister Souljah Publisher Comments Rapper, activist, and hip-hop rebel, Sister Souljah possesses the most passionate and articulate voice to emerge from the projects. Now she uses that voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manual for any African... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dewayne Wickham Publisher Comments DeWayne Wickham was just eight years old when his father murdered his mother and then killed himself. Woodholme is his poignant memoir about growing up haunted by this traumatic event and about how he eventually overcame the reality of his loss. A... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Luther King Publisher Comments '\'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Dr. King\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s remarkable account of the struggle for civil rights in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, tracing the history of the movement back to its beginnings three centuries ago and looking to... (read more) Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman Publisher Comments The award-winning creators of National Public Radio's "Ghetto Life 101" and "Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse" combine talents with a young photographer to show what life is like in one of the country's darkest places: Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Hilliard Publisher Comments The Black Panther Party represents Black Panther Party members' coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities. The Party pioneered free... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jacqueline L Tobin Publisher Comments The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad. <BR>"A groundbreaking work... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments The dramatic personal and political stories behind the Civil Rights Movement as it happened across the North and the South. More than 900 striking photographs of people, events, and artifacts-with lively, expert commentary. Complete coverage, slave days... (read more) List Price $29.98 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Irons Publisher Comments This award-winning study weaves together vivid portraits of lawyers and judges, sketches of numerous black children throughout history, and gripping courtroom drama scenes to reveal why schools are more segregated today than they were before "Brown v... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robin D G Kelley Review Monthly Review It is not too much or too early to call Robin D. G. Kelley, barely thirty years old, a leading black historian of the age. But it may not be enough...His work, seen in a certain light, is less about the past than the future...To listen... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Reynolds Publisher Comments The best short history of the African slave trade in print, tracing the impact of the trade on both Africa and the West, showing the resilience of African societies, and along the way demolishing a good many historical myths. Remarkably comprehensive... (read more) List Price $14.90 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arnold Rampersad Publisher Comments The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the twentieth century — Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man. In 1953, Ellison's explosive story of an innocent young black... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $23.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Diane Mcwhorter 
Publisher Comments "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. That spring, child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches for desegregation. A few months later, Ku Klux... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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