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  • Lighting the Fires of Freedom

    African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

    by Janet Dewart Bell ...
    Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel PrizeRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and AutostraddleNominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, a groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in the twentieth-century fight for civil rightsDuring the Civil Rights Movement, African American women did not stand on ceremony; they simply did ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blackbirds Singing

    Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century

    by Janet Dewart Bell ...
    An uplifting collection of speeches by Black women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and authorWhen Mary Ann Shadd Cary—the first Black woman publisher in North America—declared, “break every yoke . . . let the oppressed go free” to congregants in Chatham, Canada, in 1858, she joined a tradition of African American women speaking for their own liberation. Drawing from a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Race, Rights, and Redemption

    The Derrick Bell Lectures on the Law and Critical Race Theory

    Edited by Janet Dewart Bell, Vincent M. Southerland ...
    Leading legal lights weigh in on key issues of race and the law—collected in honor of one of the originators of critical race theory"Penetrating essays on race and social stratification within policing and the law, in honor of pioneering scholar Derrick Bell." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)When Derrick Bell, one of the originators of critical race theory, turned sixty-five, his wife founded a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Race, Rights, and Redemption

    The Derrick Bell Lectures on the Law and Critical Race Theory

    Edited by Janet Dewart Bell ...
    Leading legal lights weigh in on key issues of race and the law—collected in honor of one of the originators of critical race theory“Penetrating essays on race and social stratification within policing and the law, in honor of pioneering scholar Derrick Bell.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)When Derrick Bell, one of the originators of critical race theory, turned sixty-five, his wife founded a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lighting the Fires of Freedom

    African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

    by Janet Dewart Bell ...
    Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel PrizeRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and AutostraddleNominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, a groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in the twentieth-century fight for civil rightsDuring the Civil Rights Movement, African American women did not stand on ceremony; they simply did ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not All Poor People Are Black

    by Janet Cheatham Bell ...
    Black folks take whites much too seriously. (Except for the police. Everybody, and especially black men, has to be wary of them because you never know when a couple of them may have had a bad day.) Taking whites too seriously is just one of the things I write about in this book. This collection of essays is about identifying and using the power we have as members of the American body politic to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marathon of Faith

    by Bell, Jim, Lee, Lee, Janet, Rex E. ...
    Rex and Janet Lee have had lives filled with extraordinary experiences. From Rex's nomination as U.S. Solicitor General to his presidency of Brigham Young University, he was involved with the nation's legal and educational elite. And his wife, Janet, has been integral to his success. Perhaps their most interesting experiences together, however, have centered on the health challenges Rex had for ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Still Rising

    Famous Black Quotations for the Twenty-First Century

    by Janet Cheatham Bell ...
    An inspiring collection of pithy, easy-to-recall one-liners and quotable short passages from historic and contemporary thought leaders throughout the African Diaspora.Famous Black Quotations, first published in 1986, has long been the go-to resource for the eloquent words of Black history makers. In this new, expanded edition, Famous Black Quotations for the Twenty-First Century, editor Janet ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Blackbirds Singing

    Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century

    by Janet Dewart Bell ...
    An uplifting collection of speeches by Black women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and authorWhen Mary Ann Shadd Cary—the first Black woman publisher in North America—declared, "break every yoke . . . let the oppressed go free" to congregants in Chatham, Canada, in 1858, she joined a tradition of African American women speaking for their own liberation. Drawing from a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Time and Place That Gave Me Life

    by Janet Cheatham Bell ...
    The Time and Place That Gave Me Life is a coming-of-age memoir that confronts race and gender issues in middle America during the pre-Civil Rights era. Janet Cheatham Bell’s riveting memoir recounts her experiences as an African American girl in Indianapolis from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s. In taut chapters, Bell introduces the reader to a life often defined by race and racial discrimination. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Till Victory Is Won

    Famous Black Quotations From the NAACP

    by Janet Cheatham Bell ...
    Taking its title from the moving lyrics of the official song of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," Till Victory Is Won chronicles significant moments in African-American history through more than two hundred illuminating quotations from NAACP officers, members, and award recipients.Focusing on five major topics -- Protecting Civil Rights, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Biology of Turtles

    From Structures to Strategies of Life

    Edited by Jeanette Wyneken, Matthew H. Godfrey, Vincent Bels ...
    Featuring in-depth contributions from an international team of experts, the Biology of Turtles provides the first comprehensive review of the Testudinata. The book starts with the premise that the structure of turtles is particularly interesting and best understood within the context of their development, novelty, functional diversity, and e ... Read more

    $233.99 USD