Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. Volume 1: From COlonial Times Through the Civil War
Citadel, 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Citadel, 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Doubleday Books, October 2003. Hardcover. Many regard basketball and hip hop to be the only viable options in a society where many other opportunities continue to be closed off. This book discusses how both forms of culture have gone from being dismissed, reviled, and rejected by the mainstream, to being..... More
University of N. Carolina Press, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of..... More
Meredith Press, January 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in well worn dustjacket with edgewear & chipping. Front flap is clipped. Top right corner of FFEP is also clipped. Black cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering along spine. Corners bumped. Heavy wear top & bottom of spine with small tears..... More
Oxford University Press, December 1989. Trade Paperback. Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. As public drama privately experienced, Keckley's work presents Jefferson Davis and..... More
W. W. Norton, January 2008. Trade Paperback. "My husband considered you a dear friend," Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in..... More
Leisure Books, 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Vintage, September 2007. Trade Paperback. An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press--and the journalists responsible for them--profoundly changed the nation's thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and '60s. Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings..... More
Helga M. Rogers, June 1980. Trade Paperback. Classic collection of black history and triviaFirst published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers' columns from the syndicated newspaper feature titled Your History. Patterned after the look of Ripley's popular Believe It or Not..... More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, September 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberÂculosis stirred people's darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting en masse..... More
Basic Books, January 2003. Trade Paperback. The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism -- now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or..... More
Dancing Foxes Press/Brooklyn Museum, March 2024. Hardcover. Baldwin's life and legacy as remembered by a pantheon of artists and writers: from Jamaica Kincaid and Barry Jenkins to Richard Avedon and Alice Neel When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an extraordinary body of work: novels, poems, film..... More
Haymarket Books, July 2023. Trade Paperback. "The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." -Colin Kaepernick Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social..... More
Indiana University Press, July 1986. Paper Back. "Sisters of the Spirit . . . should interest a wider audience. . . . These fascinating accounts can stand on their own. . . . Mr. Andrews has made them even more accessible by providing a comprehensive introduction and helpful footnotes... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, March 2022. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A sweeping, genre-bending "masterpiece" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity--from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé ONE..... More
New Press, January 2020. Trade Paperback. Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--one of the most influential books of the past 20 years, according..... More
Random House Inc, March 1997. Hardcover. In her first book of poetry since "Why Don't You Sing?" Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This memorable collection of..... More
Bantam, 1993. Mass Market PaperBack. Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our..... More
Anchor, July 2001. Trade Paperback. Equal parts cultural history and memoir, God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man recounts a traditional way of life--that of the Geechee Indians of Sapelo Island-- that is threatened by change, with stories that speak to our deepest notions of family, community, and a connection..... More
Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), February 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon, England, to Charleston, South Carolina, to take possession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and 20 slaves. Elias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted for six..... More
Greybull Press, October 2002. First Edition. Cloth. In 1968, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover vilified the Black Panthers as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States." That same year photographers Pirkle Jones and wife, Ruth-Marion Baruch, documented the Black Panthers for an exhibition at the De..... More
Pocket Books, January 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound, mass market paperback edition with slightly darkened margin. Rubber stamped names of previous owner's top right of title page. Textblock edges tinted rose red. Abridged Pocket edition/Memorial edition. Note in blue ink last page of textblock upper left at edge of..... More
Anchor, January 2009. Trade Paperback. This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in "The Age of Neoslavery." By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this..... More
Harry N. Abrams, March 2020. Trade Paperback. From award-winning author Tonya Bolden comes the fascinating story of one of America's most influential African American voices Teacher. Self-emancipator. Orator. Author. Man. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is one of the most important African American figures in US history, best known, perhaps, for his..... More