Coming Up Black -
Spectrum Press-, January 1969. Paper Back. Octavo. 5th printing thus. Foxing/soiling to cover. Likewise textblock edges. [209 pp.]. More
African-American Studies
Down To The Crossroads
Fsg Adult, February 2015. Trade Paperback. In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he reentered Mississippi, on foot. His plan was to walk from..... More
Tally's Corner: a Study of Negro Streetcorner Men (LB 83 -- 525146)
Little, Brown, 1967. Trade Paperback. Foxing textblock edges and some interior pages. A few pages dog-earred and creased & stained by (since removed) rusty paperclips. Soiling. Unfortunate mildew odor. Some scattered margin markings. [260 pp.]. More
Four Took Freedom -- Z10 -- The Lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and Blanche K. Bruce
Zenith Press / Doubleday & Company, Inc., January 1967. Paper Back. More
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Large Print Press, March 2011. Trade Paperback. Henrietta Lacks a poor Southern tobacco farmer was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells -- taken without her knowledge grown in culture and bought and sold by the billions -- became one of the most important tools in..... More
Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement
William Morrow & Co, September 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl : With 'a True Tale of Slavery'
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
The Negro Novel in America
Yale University Press, January 1968. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper; dampstained on rear; overall, a sturdy copy of an important study. More
Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
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
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
Peachtree Publishing Company, February 2015. Oversize Softcover. Essential reading on American and Black history, race, protest and youth activism ? Four Starred Reviews ? Editors' Choice Book ?The New York Times Jane Addams Children's Book Award Top 10 Black History Books for Youth ?Booklist Best Books of the Year ?Booklist..... More
Manchild in the Promised Land
Signet, January 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. 9th printing. Mass market paperback with heavily bumped lower spine that caused surface creasing. [429 pp.]. More
Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65
Simon & Schuster, January 1999. Trade Paperback. In "Pillar of Fire," the second volume of his "America in the King Years" trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, "Parting the Waters," won the Pulitzer Prize for History. "Pillar of Fire" covers the far-flung..... More
The Passion of My Times: An Advocate's Fifty-Year Journey in the Civil Rights Movement
Da Capo Press, October 2004. Hardcover. More
The omni-Americans: Some alternatives to the folklore of white supremacy
Vintage Books, January 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Becoming
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
Life Lessons My Mother Taught Me: Universal Values from Extraordinary Times
Tarcher, January 2000. Hardcover. The daughter of former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young discusses growing up in a middle-class Black Southern family and the role of her mother in shaping her life. Previous owner's inked letter on first loose endpaper. More
A Nickel and A Prayer
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
Jet Mar 2, 1967 Vol. 31, No. 21
Johnson Publishing Company, March 1967. Stapled Magazine. Stapled magazine; 16mo.; {4' x 6'} Cover stories: 'Inside reprot on nation's smallest black ghetto' and 'Diahann Carroll Makes New Film in Paris'; Torn lower right corner of cover (about one-inch by two-inches). Dark stains rear cover panel. Also vertical crease of rear..... More
12 Years a Slave: (Movie Tie-In)
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
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Simon & Schuster, June 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Forty years ago, a teenaged boy named John Lewis stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. The ideals of nonviolence which guided that critical time of American history established him..... More
The American Negro Revolution
Indiana University Press, January 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Becoming
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
Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights
University of Georgia Press, April 2001. First Edition. Cloth. In the uneasily shared history of Jews and blacks in America, the struggle for civil rights in the South may be the least understood episode. "Fight against Fear" is the first book to focus on Jews and African Americans in that..... More
The Children
Random House, March 1998. Hardcover. The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. Magisterial in scope, with a strong..... More
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Vintage)
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
