W. W. Norton & Company, June 1994. Hardcover. The New York Times Book Review ended its rave for White Butterfly, the most recent novel in Walter Mosley's acclaimed mystery series, by saying "I can't wait to see where Easy Rawlins turns up next. And when". Black Betty holds the sure-to-be-bestselling..... More
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Hardcover. Black paper covered boards with gold lettering. Some slant to spine. Wear to board edges. Tanning to end pages. Edgeworn, rubbed dust jacket with small chipping. Stains to back cover. More
Vintage Books, January 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Indiana University Press, January 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 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
Dover Publications, April 2000. Trade Paperback. The basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie! A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation. -- Saturday ReviewBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in..... 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
Liveright, October 2021. Paper Back. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic, National Book Award-winning biography, which interweaves previously unknown details..... More
Bold Type Books, April 2021. Hardcover. From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration--and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us. Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid the routine..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1983. Trade Paperback. The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 2008. Trade Paperback. "Masterly."--Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of..... 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
Basic Books, November 2016. Paper Back. The first book to bring to life the influential friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X...... 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
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
Quadrangle Books, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto in dustjacket with edgewear & rubbing. A few stray dark stains. Especially heavily worn at head of spine. Darkening & damp stained DJ verso. Flap is not clipped. Burgundy cloth covered spine with stamped silver lettering. Dark tan paper covered boards. Title stamped..... More
Lawrence Hill Books, October 2001. Trade Paperback. On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed..... More
Ember, September 2019. Trade Paperback. Bryan Stevenson's incredible fight to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality comes to life in this young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie..... More
Black Classic Press, November 2021. Paper Back. Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries is Florence Tate's memoir and covers her political work and career, including early memories as one of the first black reporters at the Dayton Daily News, to becoming communications director for political organizations including the ALDCC (African Liberation Day..... More
Da Capo Press, October 2004. Hardcover. More
Indiana University Press, May 1998. Trade Paperback. Drawing from original documents, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn constructs a comprehensive portrait of the African American women who fought for the right to vote. She analyzes the women's own stories of why they joined and how they participated in the U.S. women's suffrage movement. Not..... More
