Ballantine Books, October 1987. Mass Market PaperBack. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister... More about The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley
Bedford Books, March 2002. Trade Paperback. This teaching edition of Charles W. Chesnutt's 1901 novel about racial conflict in a Southern town features an extensive selection of materials that place the work in its historical context. Organized thematically, these materials explore caste, gender, and race after Reconstruction; postbellum laws and... More about Marrow of Tradition
Cleage Group Publications, 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. 34 pages. More about Selected Utterances of Marcus Moziah Garvey 'Africa For the African'
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, February 2015. Trade Paperback. The events surrounding the Trayvon Martin murder, trial and acquittal bring to public and private discourse the violent, brutal murders of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Dr. King, while bringing back to memory the racially provoked murders of... More about The Trayvon Martin in US: An American Tragedy (Black Studies and Critical Thinking
Pantheon, July 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. More about Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926
Doubleday, November 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket price clipped, otherwise very good all round. More about A Different Kind of Christmas
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here... More about The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here... More about The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley
Simon Schuster Trade, January 1753. Trade Paperback. More about Color Purple
Harcourt, May 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Shelf wear, edge creasing, minor chipping and a few tiny closed tears on the jacket. Mylar wrapped to preserve. Small personal library stamp on the front free endpaper. Signed and dedicated by the author on the front free endpaper. More about Meridian
Harvest Books, March 1973. First Thus. Trade Paperback. These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love... More about Revolutionary Petunias
Laurel, March 1997. Mass Market PaperBack. Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story -- the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi... More about Coming of Age in Mississippi
Laurel, March 1997. Mass Market PaperBack. Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story -- the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi... More about Coming of Age in Mississippi
Lyons Press, January 2017. Hardcover. The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in... More about 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
One World, July 2010. Trade Paperback. When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the "Little Rock Nine," as they came to be... More about A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Bloomsbury USA, June 2017. Paper Back. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of... More about White Rage
University Press of Mississippi, November 2005. Hardcover. The history of the state's struggle to desegregate its schools. More about The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980
University Press of Mississippi, November 2005. Hardcover. The history of the state's struggle to desegregate its schools. More about The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, December 2005. Hardcover. This study compares the culture of black colleges and universities a generation ago with those that exist today, and makes projections into the future, based on a comprehensive review of professional literature and an analysis of the management skills of contemporary black college... More about The Black College Mystique
Mnemosyne, January 1969. Hardcover. No jacket as issued. Ink underlining and previous owner's name inked on f.f.e.p. More about The Colonel's Dream
Penguin USA, January 2002. Cloth. Rejecting his era's genteel hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing," Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his innovative explorations of racial identity and use of African-American speech and folklore. Chesnutt exposed the deformed logic of the Jim Crow system-creating, in the... More about Charles W. Chesnutt : Stories, Novels, and Essays
Vintage, November 1988. Trade Paperback. Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in The Real Cool Killers, one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too... More about The Real Cool Killers
Thomas Dunne Books, July 2014. Hardcover. A New York Times Best Seller! Tomlinson Hill is the stunning story of two families--one white, one black--who trace their roots to a slave plantation that bears their name. Internationally recognized for his work as a fearless war correspondent, award-winning journalist Chris Tomlinson grew... More about Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White,...
Simon & Schuster, June 1999. Trade Paperback. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem of everyday life for the first generation African American raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. More about Manchild in the Promised Land
