The Prophet of Wheat Street: The Story of William Holmes Borders
D. C. Cook Pub. Co, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. Original published under title Handyman of the Lord (1967). Mild shelfwear. [205 pages]. More
African-American Studies
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
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club)
Vintage, May 1998. Trade Paperback. More
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Amistad, January 2023. Paper Back. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine's Vulture Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of..... More
The Struggle to Free Gary Tyler
Liberator Press, January 1976. Stapled Soft Cover. Octavo. Stapled pamphlet. [32 pages plus two pages of advertisements]. More
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Vintage, March 1992. Trade Paperback. A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels..... More
In My Place (Vintage)
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
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
Random House Trade Paperbacks, March 2022. Paper Back. 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
Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
Knopf, November 2022. Hardcover. The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon Line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery. Born free in 1821 to two..... More
The Man Called Brown Condor: The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot
Skyhorse Publishing, January 2016. Trade Paperback. "[Robinson's] lifelong triumph over adversity belongs to the greatest of American success stories." --Peter Hannaford, Washington Times In this gripping, never-before-told tale, biographer Thomas E. Simmons brings to life the true story of John C. Robinson, who rose from fraught and humble beginnings as..... More
'I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife': African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era
Chronicle Books, October 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. This book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical experience. Amidst bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold..... More
Between the World and Me
Spiegel & Grau, October 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH"..... More
Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery Family's Civil Rights Legacy
Lawrence Hill Books, May 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city's famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police..... 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
Maya Angelou: Poems
Bantam, 1993. Reprint. 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..... More
Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
Knopf, November 2022. Hardcover. The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon Line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery. Born free in 1821 to two..... More
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Harvest Books, October 1999. Trade Paperback. Congressman John Lewis takes readers inside the civil rights movement in"Walking with the Wind"and shares rare insight into the personalities at its heart. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Congressman John Lewis was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement..... More
South to a Very Old Place (Modern Library)
Modern Library, February 1995. First Edition. Cloth. {4 & 3/4' x 7 & 3/4'} In lightly edgeworn dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Grey cloth with gold lettering on spine edge. Complete number string: 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 . [269 pp.]. More
The Fire Next Time
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
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
Knopf, October 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injustices of racial segregation in the South--and the..... More
Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
Washington Square Press, December 2003. Paper Back. World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day. Why do so many African-Americans--whether privileged or poor, urban or..... More
The Essential Dick Gregory
Amistad, October 2022. Hardcover. A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography and the 2017 NAACP Image Award Winner, Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies. A true renaissance..... More
The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 1983. Trade Paperback. The National Book Award-winning novel--and contemporary classic--that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones "[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Naylor bravely risks sentimentality and melodrama to..... More
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
Ecco, September 2022. Paper Back. A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America--including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more--with a foreword by Jelani Cobb This anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex..... More
Post-Prison Writings & Speeches
Vintage, 1969. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Vintage Edition. Well-worn paperback. More
