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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.37
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Still
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7115
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Publication Date: 2007-06-25
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: A "conductor" based in Philadelphia, Still (1821–1902) helped guide fugitive slaves to safety in the years before the Civil War. He also created this unforgettable history, a collection of carefully preserved letters, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts about refugees' hardships, narrow escapes, and deadly struggles. Over 50 illustrations. "Highly recommended."— Midwest Book Review. |
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Price: $7.95
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Sale: $6.29
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Manufacturer: Cosimo Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: W.E.B. DuBois
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Publisher: Cosimo Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2007-09-01
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: The Souls of Black Folk, originally published in 1903, contains a number of groundbreaking essays on race and race relations by scholar and activist W.E.B. DuBois. As an early work in the field of sociology, this book analyzes the interactions between the races and offers a solution for the strife and inequality that had come to characterize those interactions. DuBois believed that education was the route to a better life for all blacks, and his recommendation became the basis for the civil rights movement. Anyone interested in history, race relations, sociology, or the intellectual heritage of the United States will find this an essential read. American writer, civil rights activist, and scholar W.E.B. DUBOIS (1868-1963) was a free-born African American in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was the first black man to receive a PhD from Harvard University and was convinced that education was the means for African Americans to achieve equality. He wrote a number of important books, including The Philadelphia Negro (1899), Black Folk, Then and Now (1899), and The Negro (1915).
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $17.50
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Manufacturer: Library of America
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: William L. Andrews::Henry Louis Gates
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Publisher: Library of America
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.567092396073
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Publication Date: 2000-01-15
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Reading Level: 992
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Description: The prestigious Library of America series now includes a volume featuring 10 of the most important slave narratives in African American history. Edited by English professor William L. Andrews of the University of North Carolina and Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates Jr., Slave Narratives tells the true story of American slavery and freedom through the voices of the slaves themselves. These voices, which span from 1772 to 1864, portray an astonishing unity in diversity: from the African-born accents of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and Olaudah Equiano to the deadpan humor exhibited by J.D. Green on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865. "The Narrative of Frederick Douglass" illuminates what life was like for fugitive slaves, while "The Confessions of Nat Turner" rekindles the flames of the slave revolt. Sojourner Truth's story reflects the revolutionary Christianity that fueled the abolitionist movement and Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" documents the black woman's dual fight against sexual and racial conquest. All told, these works of literature are as important to the American principles of freedom and democracy as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $14.97
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Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Franklin Williams
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Publisher: Wayne State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975.6755
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Publication Date: 1998-06
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Reading Level: 89
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Description: A southern black community's struggle to defend itself against racist groups.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $7.93
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Manufacturer: Anchor
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mark Curriden::Leroy Phillips
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Publisher: Anchor
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Dewey Decimal Number: 345.730234
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Publication Date: 2001-02-20
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Prior to 1906, the U.S. Supreme Court had never tried a criminal case--and the high court had yet to assert its power over state criminal courts. That was all to change after the events of a cold January night earlier that year in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Blond, beautiful, 21-year-old Nevada Taylor had hopped on one of Chattanooga's new electric trolleys after work. Before she could reach home, the young woman was waylaid and raped by an unknown assailant. At first Taylor couldn't describe her attacker to town sheriff Joseph Shipp, as she hadn't seen the man clearly, but she soon became convinced he was "a Negro with a soft, kind voice." In just 17 days, a drifter dubbed a "Negro fiend" by the Chattanooga News had been hastily arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang. Two idealistic black lawyers intervened, filing appeals to the state and ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court, citing the numerous rights denied the most-likely innocent Ed Johnson. (One of the attorneys said of the suspect, "But for the will of God, that is me.") The high court agreed to hear the appeal, staying the Tennessee execution. But back in Chattanooga, the politically minded Sheriff Shipp looked the other way as a bloodthirsty crowd of hundreds broke Johnson out of jail, beat him brutally, and lynched him on the county bridge. Mark Curriden, a legal writer for the Dallas Morning News, and Leroy Phillips, a Chattanooga trial attorney, have painstakingly researched and vividly recounted the events of this oft-overlooked but significant episode in America's legal history, from the details of the original crime to the eventual federal conviction of Shipp and members of the lynch mob for contempt. A superb combination of journalistic storytelling and academic rigor. --Paul Hughes
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $9.55
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Manufacturer: Pathfinder Press (NY)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George Breitman
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Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301.45196073
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Publication Date: 1970-06-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Malcolm X's political evolution after he left the Nation of Islam. Analyzes the conflicts that resulted in Malcolm's being driven out of the Nation, his views on how to combat anti-Black discrimination, and how, as he put it, to "internationalize" the struggle.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $8.38
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gerald Horne
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 979.494053
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Publication Date: 1997-08-21
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Reading Level: 452
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Description: In August 1965 the predominantly black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and violence following an incident of police brutality. The official death toll was thirty-four; property losses reached hundreds of millions of dollars; but the political results were even more profound. The civil rights movement was placed on the defensive as the image of rioting blacks in the West replaced the image of meek and angelic protestors in the South. A white backlash ensued that led directly to Ronald Reagan's election as governor of California in 1966.This is the first comprehensive treatment of the uprising, its causes, and its aftermath, and is based on hundreds of oral histories and unprecedented archival research. With a cast that includes Ronald Reagan, Tom Bradley, Martin Luther King, Jr., Edmund G. Brown, the NAACP, the Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, and thousands of blacks and whites, Fire This Time is a compelling account of an event that changed the face of racial justice in America.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $8.95
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stephen V. Ash
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.74150975912
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Publication Date: 2008-07-07
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: A nearly forgotten Civil War episode is restored to history in this masterful account.
In March 1863, nine hundred black Union soldiers, led by white officers, invaded Florida and seized the town of Jacksonville. They were among the first African American troops in the Northern army, and their expedition into enemy territory was like no other in the Civil War. It was intended as an assault on slavery by which thousands would be freed.
At the center of the story is prominent abolitionist Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who led one of the regiments. After waging battle for three weeks, Higginson and his men were mysteriously ordered to withdraw, their mission a seeming failure. Yet their successes in resisting the Confederates and collaborating with white Union forces persuaded President Abraham Lincoln to begin full-scale recruitment of black troops, a momentous decision that helped turned the tide of the war.
Using long-neglected primary sources, historian Stephen V. Ash's stirring narrative re-creates this event with insight, vivid characterizations, and a keen sense of drama. 20 illustrations.
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Price: $17.50
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Sale: $7.95
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Margaret S. Creighton
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2006-07-03
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: "A wonderful 'backstage' story of human beings caught up in the greatest battle fought in the Western Hemisphere." (Ken Burns) In the summer of 1863, as Union and Confederate armies converged on southern Pennsylvania, the town of Gettysburg found itself thrust onto the center stage of war. The three days of fighting that ensued decisively turned the tide of the Civil War. In The Colors of Courage, Margaret Creighton narrates the tale of this crucial battle from the viewpoint of three unsung groups--women, immigrants, and African Americans--and reveals how wide the conflict's dimensions were. A historian with a superb flair for storytelling, Creighton draws on memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspapers to bring to life the individuals at the heart of her narrative. The Colors of Courage is a stunningly fluid work of original history-one that redefines the Civil War's most remarkable battle. "Exciting, intelligent and provocative." (Chicago Tribune) "The Colors of Courage is a must for anyone interested in the battle of Gettysburg and social history of the Civil War period." (Civil War News)
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.13
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0496073
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Publication Date: 1997-07
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Reading Level: 539
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Description: We Are Your Sisters, a collection of letters, oral histories, and excerpts from diaries and autobiographies, is "a documentary portrayal of black women who lived between 1800 and the 1880s." As such, We Are Your Sisters provides a panoramic portrait of black women's lives, presenting the words of laundresses and maids, of writers and teachers. You'll find the testimonies of slave women, as collected in the 1920s and '30s by the Federal Writers Project, on such matters as work, courtship, and family life; letters from slave women that include moving appeals for husbands to save them from slave traders; and first-person accounts of women's resistance to slavery. There are also letters from women such as Rosetta Douglass Sprague, the daughter of Frederick Douglass; accounts of the doings of upper-class blacks in the years following the Civil War; and excerpts from the diary of Frances Rollin, author of a biography of black activist and Civil War soldier Martin Delany.
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