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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
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
Vintage, May 1998. Trade Paperback. More
Liberator Press, January 1976. Stapled Soft Cover. Octavo. Stapled pamphlet. [32 pages plus two pages of advertisements]. More
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
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
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
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
Vintage, 1969. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Vintage Edition. Well-worn paperback. More
Simon & Schuster, January 1998. Hardcover. 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. It is a monumental chronicle of a...... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2007. Trade Paperback. At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized universally as the definitive account and ultimate recognition of Martin Luther..... More
Modern Library, October 2008. Trade Paperback. "A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of..... More
Ballantine Books, October 2002. Trade Paperback. In his barracks, Walter Burke is trying to write a letter to the parents of a fallen soldier, an Alabama man who died in a muddy rice paddy. But all he can think of is his childhood friend Lamar, the friend with whom he..... More
Jossey-Bass, March 2009. Trade Paperback. In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not..... More
B&H Books, August 2017. Hardcover. Thomas Johnson and Charles Spurgeon lived worlds apart. Johnson, an American slave, born into captivity and longing for freedom--- Spurgeon, an Englishman born into relative ease and comfort, but, longing too for a freedom of his own. Their respective journeys led to an unlikely meeting..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1998. 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 as one..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, March 1991. Hardcover. In a strong, often funny, and revealing narrative, Lorene Cary recounts how she found herself suddenly catapulted into a world of privilege, when she left a black section of Philadelphia to attend a New Hampshire boarding school in 1971. Cary also describes returning to..... More
Grove Press, 1965. Reprint. Cloth. 4th printing. Octavo in heavily edgeworn, chipped & torn dustjacket. Especially worn at top & bottom of spine. Darkened at jacket folds. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with light dust staining. Fading lettering along spine. Mild darkening to textblock top &..... More
Norton*(ww Norton Co, August 1985. Trade Paperback. More
Harper, 1970, January 1970. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Pages somewhat toned and a bit of minor cover wear, but a very tight, perhaps unread copy of the first printing of the paperback edition. More
Random House Inc, March 1997. Hardcover. In her first book of poetry since "Why Don't You Sing?" Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This memorable collection of..... More
Simon & Schuster, July 1997. Trade Paperback. From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over..... More
Pocket Books, February 1970. Reprint. Paper Back. Moderate wear. Heavy foxing & stains. Previous owner's name in ink first inside page.[222 pp.]. More
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
Zenith Press / Doubleday & Company, Inc., January 1967. Paper Back. More
William Morrow & Co, September 1988. Trade Paperback. More