Random House, November 2009. Hardcover. A new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored. "I am so pleased the book is alive again. I still..... More
University Press of Mississippi, November 1995. Trade Paperback. The late African American novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) is well known both in America and Europe for his moving depictions of black men destroyed by a pervasive racism and for darkly humorous stories of Harlem's underworld. His novels and stories are all..... More
Cleage Group Publications, 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. 34 pages. More
Routledge, October 2002. Trade Paperback. The past fifteen years have seen renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the struggles into our homes and classrooms once again. New evidence in older criminal cases demands that the judicial system reconsider the accuracy of investigations..... More
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
Haymarket Books, July 2012. Trade Paperback. In an era of stark racial injustice, Aaron Dixon dedicated his life to revolution, founding the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968 at age nineteen. In My People Are Rising, he traces the course of his own radicalization, and that of..... More
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, June 1995. Hardcover. Awaiting execution for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman, the author describes the brutality and humiliation of prison life and argues that the justice system is racist and ruled by political expediency. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, June 1995. Hardcover. Awaiting execution for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman, the author describes the brutality and humiliation of prison life and argues that the justice system is racist and ruled by political expediency. More
Pantheon, July 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. More
University of Michigan Press, March 2014. First Edition. Cloth. Amy Absher's The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Examines why Philadelphia authorities took extraordinarily disproportionate action against a group called MOVE by dropping military explosives on a residential neighborhood in May 1985. First/first in dust jacket with ink stain from jacket black spine bottom edge of verso..... More
Random House Inc, September 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in price clipped dust jacket with mild edgewear bottom of spine. This is number line: '98765432' which is correct for R.H. firsts of this vintage. Red cloth with black lettering on spine. Black end pages. Some wear to lettering on spine..... More
Third Pr Review of Books, June 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Endpapers foxed; pages somewhat darkened; Jacket has some chipping at top of folds and spine extremities; not price-clipped. Beautiful copy. Scarce. More
I AM Unlimited Publishing, January 2003. First Edition. Paper Back. Paperback original with bumps, curled fore-edge, & wear. Still good copy of uncommon title. Solid spine. No writing in text. Signed & inscribed by Swanston on title page: 'To Angus, Peace, Love, Prosperity & Power.' First/first. More
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
Kersplebedeb Publishing / Solidarity, January 2001. Stapled Soft Cover. Stapled pamphlet. (122 pages). Clean, sound, without markings. More
Holt Paperbacks, April 1995. Paper Back. One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation. This edition of James Baldwin's classic work offers a new foreword..... More
Quadrangle Books, 1971. Hardcover. Red cloth spine with silver lettering & tan paper covered boards with stamped red title. Corners bumped mildly. Rubbing & discoloration to jacket. One inch spidery tear top edge at spine of front jacket panel. Maroon end pages. More
Ten Speed Press, January 2020. Hardcover. A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop. Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the..... More
Paper Back. More
Pacesetters Publishing House, 1969. Pamphlet. Yellow cardstock pamphlet; folded stampled. (5.5 inch x 8.5 inch) 40 pages. More
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
Mnemosyne, January 1969. Hardcover. No jacket as issued. Ink underlining and previous owner's name inked on f.f.e.p. More
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
