No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela, With a new Foreword by Ruth First (African Writers Series)
Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks, January 1973. Trade Paperback. More
Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks, January 1973. Trade Paperback. More
Viking Adult, April 2011. Hardcover. Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly..... More
University of Michigan Press, 1968. Reprint. Trade Paperback. An analysis of the ideas of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, and other black leaders from the turn of the century. First Ann Arbor Paperback, 2nd printing. Octavo. Well worn with foxing spread liberally through text. Previous owner's..... More
Doubleday & Company, Inc., January 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. In very good dust jacket with rubbing. NOT price clipped. Original price of $3.50 on flap. Paper covered pictorial boards with mild edgewear. Clean, tight binding. No internal markings. More
Univ Pr of Kentucky, November 2021. Paper Back. In this exceedingly timely book, Louis Moore looks at the history of Black activist athletes and the important role of the Black community in insisting that the concept of fair play should apply not only to sports but to all segments of..... More
Vintage, May 2007. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison's acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove--an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose..... More
Vintage, May 2007. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison's acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove--an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose..... More
Knopf, October 2003. First Edition. Cloth. From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town. "A marvelous work, which enlarges our conception not only of love but of racial..... More
Plume, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of..... More
Knopf, September 1977. Book Club. Cloth. In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction. "Song..... More
Beacon Press, February 2002. Trade Paperback. The remarkable story of the Algebra Project, a community-based effort to develop math-science literacy in disadvantaged schools--as told by the program's founder "Bob Moses was a hero of mine. His quiet confidence helped shape the civil rights movement, and he inspired generations of young..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow "Easy Rawlins." Easy is out of " the hurting business" and into the housing (and the favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Andrew Vachss called "Devil in a Blue Dress," Walter Mosley's debut mystery featuring Easy Rawlins, a tough black private detective in L.A.'s Watts section, "the most self-assured, uniquely-voiced first novel I've ever read." The "Wall Street Journal" said of..... More
Vintage Books, January 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Indiana University Press, January 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), February 1995. Trade Paperback. A powerful look at an affluent black community from Gloria Naylor (1950-2016), the National Book Award-winning author of The Women of Brewster Place A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and..... More
Penguin Books, September 2013. Trade Paperback. The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong'o, and directed by Steve McQueen New York Times bestseller "I could not believe that I had never heard of this..... More
Crown Publishing Group (NY), November 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - ONE OF ESSENCE'S..... More
Crown Publishing Group (NY), November 2018. Hardcover. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST..... More
Crown Publishing Group (NY), November 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - ONE OF ESSENCE'S..... More
University of Minnesota Press, August 2018. Trade Paperback. How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are transforming African American manhood While single-sex public schools face much criticism, many Black communities see in them a great promise: that they can remedy a crisis for their young men. Black Boys Apart reveals..... More
Cobb & Henry, January 1989. Trade Paperback. Ex-Library. There is a 1.5 inch x 3 inch scrape on the front cover (where a sticker was removed). Library stamp and light soiling on the edges of the print block. More
PM Press, October 2012. Paper Back. Expanded and updated with new photographs and stories, this autobiography of one of the Angola Three traces the life of Robert Hillary King from his early days in Louisiana, through a troubled adolescence, a conviction that kept him behind bars for decades, his relationship..... 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
Liveright, May 2018. Trade Paperback. Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" (William Julius..... More