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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault Publisher Comments In this direct, winning memoir, Charlayne Hunter-Gault tells the story of her life from her birth in a Deep South still living out the legacy of the Civil War to her historic role in desegregating the University of Georgia, a high point in the Civil... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments What treasures these are mordantly clever and quintessentially human stories about God and the creation of the black race, the devil, preachers wily and foolish, animals, the battle between the sexes, and slaves who outsmart their masters... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Dexter Scott King Synopsis In this intimate portrait, Dexter King reveals for the first time what it was like growing up in the shadow of greatness, and how his father's lessons continue to inspire and inform his own ideas on race in America today. photo insert.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ray Shepard Publisher Comments This is the story of a man who lived several distinct chapters of a great American life. From petty criminal to defiant race rights fighter to leader of the Black Muslim movement, his life story is provocative and engrossing.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Melvin Oliver Publisher Comments Taking issue with those who point to an expanding black middle class as evidence of greater racial equality, Black Wealth/White Wealth demonstrates how an analysis of wealth--total assets and debts rather than income alone--uncovers a qualitatively... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Estella Conw Majozo Synopsis Libation explains how the cakewalk reaffirms connections with the past among African Americans; how its intricate patterns reflect the landscape of the American South and the pilgrimage of Black Americans from Phillis Wheatley and Harriet Tubman to... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $3.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gordon Parks Synopsis A compelling autobiography by the award-winning photographer and artist who was only 16 when he moved from Kansas to Minnesota in 1928.... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Janet Langhar Cohen Publisher Comments Janet Langhart Cohen's life has always seemed to defy the naysayers. She's an African-American Democrat married to the white, Republican former Secretary of Defense; a poor girl from the projects who grew up under the crushing legacy of segregation to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kate Cliffor Larson Publisher Comments Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the nine decades since her death, next to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Dennis Watlington Publisher Comments "And I thought I knew this crazy-brave black boy who bolted out of a Harlem ghetto into a white prep school and bobbed and weaved his way across the treacherous divide between black and white America. But Dennis Watlington's life story is even more... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Camille Forbes Publisher Comments It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manager, Williams swiftly became a regular player in the troupe. Traveling on from the rough-and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments The New York Times This meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape. Kotlowitz's story informs the heart. San Francisco Chronicle Amid the darkness and ever-present despair,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Harold Cruse Publisher Comments First published in 1967 in the wake of race riots and integration fears, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual is an indispensable history and urgent critique of the black left from the Harlem Renaissance through the black arts movement. Memorably... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments Renowned scholar and New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns to the Warner list with this stirring and authoritative companion to the Fall 2003 PBS documentary America Behind the Color Line. A companion to the eponymous PBS four... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Deetta Demaratus Publisher Comments In the Late 1980s, author DeEtta Demaratus happened upon a story that wouldn't leave her alone. She had been intending to write an article about Biddy Mason, a former slave who, at the time of her death in 1891, had become a well-known philanthropist and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $5.65 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Booker T Washington Publisher Comments Vividly recounting Washington's life--his childhood as a slave, struggle for education, founding and presidency of the Tuskegee Institute, and meetings with the country's leaders, this book reveals the conviction he held that the black man's salvation... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kweisi Mfume Publisher Comments Courageous. Uplifting. Triumphant. The story of Kweisi Mfume is a classic American saga. Uprooted from the rural tranquillity of Turners Station and thrust upon the gritty streets of west Baltimore, the child born Frizzell Gray seemed fated to become... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $2.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Brent Staples Publisher Comments In this evocative memoir, Brent Staples poses some compelling questions: Where does the family end the self begin? What do we owe our families and what do we owe ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? As the oldest son among... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Walter Dona Kennedy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-273) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Arlen L Fowler Publisher Comments After nearly 200,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Civil War, Congress enacted legislation to authorize regiments of cavalry and infantry for service in the West. The Ninth and Tenth cavalries won fame as "buffalo soldiers" in the Indian wars... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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