by Barack Obama  Publisher Comments “A government that truly represents these Americans–that truly serves these Americans–will require a different kind of politics. That politics will need to reflect our lives as they are actually lived. It won’t be pre-packaged... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Alex Haley Publisher Comments An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.... (read more) Your Price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Unabridged republication of 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave' written by Himself, published by The Anti-Slavery Office, Boston, 1945. New Introductory note.... (read more) Your Price $0.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Norman R Yetman Publisher Comments More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative... (read more) Your Price $1.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jacqueline L. Tobin Publisher Comments The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad. <BR>"A groundbreaking work... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments On April 4, 1968, at 6: 01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King—the prophet for racial and economic justice in America—ended his final speech... (read more) Your Price $18.50 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Anna Julia Cooper Review "A first-class series of essays that cut to the heart of the issues as much today as when it was first published."--Robert Carr, George Mason University "A very useful and thorough presentation of black woman's lives during the post-reconstruction era."--... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Chancellor Williams Publisher Comments Documents the independent achievements of the black race prior to invasion of Africa by outsiders.... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Marcia O Mcnair Publisher Comments ..".restores and reinforces principles of the true holiday season...defines each day with the principle, its candle color, symbol, a descriptive story of poem, and a bunch of make-it-now crafts...Recipes, too, are easy to imitate, from banana bread as a... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Bascom Publisher Comments These essays, devoted to traditional narratives found in Africa and in the New World, represent the last major research project of William Bascom (1912-1981), eminent authority on African art and folklore. His intention was to demonstrate the African... (read more) Your Price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Imamu Amiri (edt) Baraka Publisher Comments The defining work of the Black Arts Movement, "Black Fire" is at once a rich anthology and an extraordinary source document. Nearly 200 selections, including poetry, essays, short stories, and plays, from over 75 cultural critics, writers, and political... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Marcus Anthony Publisher Comments George Breitman helped lay the foundations for one of the most remarkable developments of American political history after World War II: the brief but promising relationship between black liberationist Malcolm X and the Trotskyist Socialist Workers... (read more) Your Price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) more about this title 
Publisher Comments The inaugural publication of the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture, this collection traces 150 years of U.S. history through stunning portraits of well-known abolitionists, artists, scientists, writers, statesmen... (read more)
by Barack Obama 
Publisher Comments In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Melba Pattill Beals Publisher Comments Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas's Central High School in 1957. For Melba and her friends it marked their transformation into reluctant warriors--on a battlefield that helped shape the civil... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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