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  • Dirt Don't Burn

    A Black Community's Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation

    by Larry Roeder, Barry Harrelson ...
    This inspiring, true story of a Black community sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American educationThe system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected every aspect of life for Black Americans.Dirt Don't Burn is the riveting narrative of an extraordinary community that ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The 1619 Project

    A New Origin Story

    by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY ... Read more

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  • Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

    A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

    by Jefferson Cowie ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY • An “important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant” (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their wayAmerican freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the ... Read more

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  • Chocolate City

    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove ...
    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Black Folk

    The Roots of the Black Working Class

    by Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. ...
    Named one of Smithsonian's Best Books of 20232024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award2024 Philip Taft Labor History Award2024 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Nonfiction Longlist**2024 L.A. Times Book Award Finalist in HistoryAn award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America through a stunning narrative centered on ... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Masterless Men

    Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

    by Keri Leigh Merritt ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • A Dreadful Deceit

    The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • From Here to Equality, Second Edition

    Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century

    by William A. Darity Jr., Andrea Kirsten Mullen ...
    Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor the civil rights struggle led to an economically just and fair nation. Today, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The State Must Provide

    The Definitive History of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education

    by Adam Harris ...
    “A book that both taught me so much and also kept me on the edge of my seat. It is an invaluable text from a supremely talented writer.” —Clint Smith, author of How the Word is PassedThe definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher educationAmerica’s colleges and universities have a shameful secret: they have never given Black people a fair chance to succeed. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lifting as We Climb

    Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box

    by Evette Dionne ...
    For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle.This Coretta Scott King Author Honor book tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle.Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Alice Paul. The Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls. The 1913 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Make Good the Promises

    Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies

    by Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Paul Gardullo ...
    "A powerful and illuminating exploration that shows the Black struggle during the Reconstruction era for a multiracial democracy." —Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning authorWith a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Eric Foner and a preface by veteran museum director and historian Spencer CrewMore than a century has passed since the revolutionary political, social, and ... Read more

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  • Journalism and Jim Crow

    White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America

    by Kathy Roberts Forde, Sid Bedingfield, Bryan Bowman, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kristin L. Gustafson, D'Weston Haywood, Blair LM Kelley, Razvan Sibii0, Robert Greene II1 ...
    Series series The History of Media and Communication
    Winner of the American Historical Association’s 2022 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize.White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic idea... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD