Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
Plume, March 1986. Paper Back. Mild edgewear. More
African-American Studies
Jimmie Lee and James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America
Regan Arts. August 2015. Hardcover. In the early months of 1965, the killings of two civil rights activists inspired the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, which became the driving force behind the passage of the Voting Rights Act. This is their story. "Bloody Sunday"--March 7, 1965--was a pivotal moment in the civil rights..... More
Locking Up Our Own
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2018. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS' 10 BEST BOOKS LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES Locking Up Our Own is an engaging, insightful..... More
The Journal of Charlotte Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era
W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1981. Trade Paperback. Charlotte L. Forten (1838-1914) was sensitive, intelligent, and educated in the culture and conventions of pre-Civil War America. But one thing distinguished her from other young Philadelphia women: she was black, destined to endure the constant insults that were accorded..... More
A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)
Knopf, October 1997. Trade Paperback. From the author of "A Gathering of Old Men" and "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't..... More
Lesson Before Dying, A
Alfred A.Knopf, April 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in very good dustjacket. Quarter bound: grey cloth with black lettering on spine edge & black paper covered boards with stamped black lettering & decoration. Tight binding. Signed by Gaines on title page below his printed name. This is a bright..... More
Selected Utterances of Marcus Moziah Garvey 'Africa For the African'
Cleage Group Publications, 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. 34 pages. More
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Penguin Press, February 2021. Hardcover. The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. "Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work." --Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again "Engaging. . . . In Gates's telling, the Black church shines bright even as..... More
Metanoia conversion: The need for the Black church
AMEC, January 1977. Soft Cover. Shelf wear. More
Living in the Shadows of a Legend: Unsung Heroes and Sheroes Who Marched With Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gilliard Communications, February 2002. Paper Back. Mild userr wear. Solid. No interior markings. More
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Crown, June 2020. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same."--Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race..... More
Brothers, Black Soldiers in the Nam
Berkley / Presidio Press, March 1985. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean text, sound binding/solid spine. Mild wear & corner creased cover. Red inked non-authorial inscription inside first page. Else no writing within text. More
No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History
Amistad, February 2021. Paper Back. Republished as part of Amistad's Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today, written by the voice of black consciousness, Dick Gregory--the incomparable satirist, human rights and environmental..... More
Bombingham: A Novel
Free Press, September 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. From the war-torn rice fields of Vietnam to the riot-filled streets of Birmingham, Alabama, "Bombingham is the affecting story of a middle-class black family riven by its personal chaos. When Walter Burke is faced with writing a letter to the parents of a...... More
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley)
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here..... More
The Hellfighters of Harlem: African-American Soldiers Who Fought for the Right to Fight for Their Country
Basic Books, October 2002. Hardcover. Their distinguished World War I record featured the longest front line service of any American regiment, with not a soldier captured or a foot of ground lost. They were the first Allied unit to reach the Rhine River. Their distinguished Private Henry Johnson was awarded..... More
Soon, One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962
Knopf, 1966. Hardcover. Fourth printing. Jacket has minimal shelfwear along bottom edge; moderate chipping at spine extremities and along top edge; else, very good. More
Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
South End Press, June 1991. Reprint. Soft Cover. A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between various forms of oppression. Ain't I a Woman examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within..... More
Salvation: Black People and Love
Harper Perennial, December 2001. Trade Paperback. "A manual for fixing our culture...In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process."--Black Issues Book Review Bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural critic bell..... More
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
South End Press, August 1990. Trade Paperback. Crosses disciplinary boundaries in major debates on postmodern theory, cultural criticism, and the politics of race and gender. hooks values postmodernism's insights while warning that the fashionable infatuation with "discourse" about "difference" is dangerously detachable from the struggle we must all wage against..... More
After '-Yuh mamma'
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
Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo'
Amistad, January 2020. Paper Back. New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 - Economist Book of the Year - SELF.com's Best Books of 2018 - Audible's Best of..... More
Stranger And Alone (New England Library Of Black Literature)
Northeastern University Press, June 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Soledad Brother
Bantam, January 1970. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Minimal shelfwear. More
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Harvard University Press, May 1987. Trade Paperback. More
