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Seals, January 1972. Stapled Soft Cover. 42 pages. No markings. Solid. Several previous dealer price stickers on cover. Else clean & very good+ all around. More
Seals, January 1972. Stapled Soft Cover. 42 pages. No markings. Solid. Several previous dealer price stickers on cover. Else clean & very good+ all around. More
Parthenon Press / Eli Kani Publishing Co., 1940. Reprint. Cloth. Scarce in jacket. Second printing. Octavo. In dustjacket with edgewear, especially at top and bottom of sun-tanned spine. Tape repairs to torn back panel of jacket. Tape is darkened and cracking from years (no doubt decades) in place. Turquoise cloth..... More
Vintage, October 1993. Trade Paperback. The award-winning correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour gives a moment-by-moment account of her walk into history when, as a 19-year-old, she challenged Southern law--and Southern violence--to become the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia. A powerful act of witness to the brutal..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, January 2006. Trade Paperback. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick "A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." --Zadie..... More
Legacy Lit, January 2024. Hardcover. New York Times Bestseller Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Books In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, that the New York Times described as "fascinating...meticulous research" and bestselling..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, July 2000. Trade Paperback. One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously..... More
University of Chicago Press. Hardcover. Cream-colored cloth binding. Trace soiling to cover, insignificant toning to pages. Very solid copy. More
Discus Avon, February 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. UP FROM SLAVERY The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for..... More
Modern Library, October 2008. Trade Paperback. "A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of..... More
Amistad, June 2004. Trade Paperback. From National Book Award-nominated author Edward P. Jones comes a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through the surprising twists and unforeseen turns of life in antebellum Virginia, becomes proprietor of his..... 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
Nation Books, August 2017. Trade Paperback. The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and..... More
Pantheon, January 2003. Trade Paperback. Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence--with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial. It's "the nuclear bomb of..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, January 2020. Trade Paperback. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. New York Times Editor's Pick. Library Journal Best Books of 2019. TIME Magazine's Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far. O, Oprah's Magazine's "10 Titles to Pick Up Now." Politics & Current Events 2018 O.W.L. Book Awards Winner..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. A great writer's lush, panoramic new novel: the story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home. Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who..... More
HarperOne, January 2024. Hardcover. With a new foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At New York City's Riverside Church in 1967, Dr. King stood in front of a rapt audience..... More
HarperOne, August 2023. Paper Back. With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King A beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legendary speech at the March on Washington, part of Dr. King's archives..... More
HarperOne, April 2024. Hardcover. A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At the end of the march from Selma to Montgomery on March 25, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front..... More
Beacon Press, November 2011. Trade Paperback. In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Immediately released under the title Conscience for Change after King's assassination, it was republished as The Trumpet of Conscience. Each..... More
Harpercollins, January 1991. Trade Paperback. An exhaustive collection of the speeches, writings, and interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning activist. More
William Morrow & Co, September 1988. Trade Paperback. More
AMS Press, March 1988. Cloth. In dustjacket with darkened/sunned spine & mild edgewear. Jacket nicked top edge at fold. Ochre cloth boards with black lettering spine edge. Tight binding. Light tan stains fore-edge. Clean interiors. More
African American Images, June 1990. Trade Paperback. Offers suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, and tells how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. More
Jossey-Bass, March 2009. Trade Paperback. In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not..... More