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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
by Jerrold M Packard

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The first major historical work on Jim Crow since C. Vann Woodward's 1955 classic, this acclaimed book charts the shameful years from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights movement. The author of seven nonfiction books, Packard brings a historian's... (read more)

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Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
by Dexter Scott King

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Dexter Scott King was just seven years old when an assassin took his father Martin Luther King's life. In this memoir, he reveals his shattered childhood in the shadow of the 'King legacy', as well as memories of his father and insights into race in the... (read more)

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Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
by Jill Nelson

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When Jill Nelson became the first black woman to write for The Washington Post's prestigious Sunday magazine in 1986, she thought she had entered journalism heaven. But the magazine proved to be insulting to black readers, not to mention its black... (read more)

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Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal Miner Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal Miner
by Robert Armstead

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Among those drawn to jobs in the booming West Virginia coal mines during the first part of the twentieth century were thousands of African Americans. They proved successful in this industry -- despite low wages and discrimination at the hands of mine... (read more)

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Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
by Trudier Harris

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A wide-ranging, spirited collection of personal essays about growing up black and Southern Like Maya Angelou and bell hooks before her, Trudier Harris explores her complicated identity as a black woman in the American South. By turns amusing and probing,... (read more)

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American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America
by Leon E Wynter

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Race has always been America's first standard and central paradox. From the start, America based its politics on the principle of white supremacy, but it has always lived and dreamed of itself in color. The truth beneath the contradiction has finally... (read more)

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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (Vintage) John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (Vintage)
by David S Reynolds

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An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history. Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible... (read more)

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Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America
by Jesse Lee Peterson

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213).... (read more)

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Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity
by Natasha Tarpley

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Black youth, particularly college-educated youth, are the supposed inheritors of the civil-rights struggles. Today many of this new generation are engaged in a new struggle--for their own identities. In Testimony black students across the country express... (read more)

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A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten
by Julie Winch

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In A Gentleman of Color, Julie Winch provides a vividly written, full-length biography of James Forten, one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Forten was born in 1766 into a free black family. As a teenager he served in the Revolution... (read more)

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To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission to Save America: 1955-1968 To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission to Save America: 1955-1968
by Stewart Burns

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More than a biography, To the Mountaintop is the history of a turbulent epoch that changed the course of American and world history. Moral warrior and nonviolent apostle; man of God rocked by fury, fear, and guilt; rational thinker driven by emotional... (read more)

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Black Rituals Black Rituals
by Sterling Plumpp

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Sterling Plumpp contrasts the rituals of Africa with African American rituals that have emerged in the twentieth century.... (read more)

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Signet Classics) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Signet Classics)
by Harriet A Jacobs

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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)

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Mama's Girl Mama's Girl
by Veronica Chambers

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In 1970s Brooklyn, Veronica Chambers strove to excel in everything from double-dutch jump rope to her studies -- but her mother, a hardworking Panamanian immigrant, was too often overwhelmed by the task of singlehandedly raising Veronica and her troubled... (read more)

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave: An American Slave Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave: An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass

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Born a slave in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential and distinguished African American of the nineteenth century. As an abolitionist, newspaper publisher, orator and statesman, Douglass dedicated his life to the... (read more)

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King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
by Harvard Sitkoff

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A Stunning Reappraisal of King and His Increased Relevance   Might Martin Luther King Jr.’s greatest accomplishments have been ahead of him? His murder in April 1968 did far more than cut tragically short the life of one of America’s... (read more)

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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Coretta King

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Includes 120 excerpts from speeches, sermons, and writings, and chronology.... (read more)

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Coming Clean: A Tale Told from the Heart Coming Clean: A Tale Told from the Heart
by Bakari Shab Shabazz

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It's a real life coming of age story for a Black Man Child in Urban America, It's about love and the lack thereof. It's gangs, drugs, violence and sex. It's about brotherhood and wanting to belong, Coming clean is about choices... the wrong choices and... (read more)

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Nappy (Trade) Nappy (Trade)
by Aliona L Gib0on

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Drawing on personal experiences, a young black woman offers her thoughts on dealing with the politics of race and identity, relationships, body-image issues, higher education, and employment opportunities, in an intimate, candid, and delightful glimpse... (read more)

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Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country
by Esther Jackson

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From 1961 to 1985, a period of massive social change for African Americans, Freedomways Quarterly published the leaders and artists of the black freedom movement. Figures of towering historical stature wrote for the journal, among them Paul Robeson, W.E... (read more)

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