History - African American & Black
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The Black List 1526 -2022: An Abridged History of Structural Racism in America496 years. 100 historical facts. This brief museum of Black exploration connects the very first Angolans enslaved in America and the post-Civil War illusions of freedom to the Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 60s, the War on Drugs, and all the way...
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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel HistoryWINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD - A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the mainstream...
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The Black Regiment: of the American RevolutionThe Black Regiment was among the finest military units fighting for independence in the Revolutionary War. During the Battle of Rhode Island, its brave soldiers repelled three fierce assaults by Hessian troops, protecting a large Continental force from capture and paving the way for...
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The Black Shield: An American Memoir of Family and PowerBoth an epic history and an intimate family story, a startling account of the lives of Black cops in one Midwestern city. Amid the fervent protests over police killings in 2020, the reporter Wilbert L. Cooper returned to his hometown of Cleveland to profile...
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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in AmericaRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America's tax regimes. American taxation is unfair, and it is most unfair to the very people who critically...
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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in AmericaRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America's tax regimes. American taxation is unfair, and it is most unfair to the very people who critically...
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The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in AmericaOne of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History Finalist for the Zora Award A New York Public Library Top Ten Book...
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The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in AmericaOne of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History Finalist for the Zora Award A New York Public Library Top Ten Book...
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The Blood of Emmett TillThis extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement--the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till--"and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" (The Atlantic). * A...
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The Boundless Biddy Mason: An Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom Across the American WestHow Biddy Mason crossed the continent, broke free from slavery, and built Black Los Angeles. Born in bondage, Biddy Mason endured one of the longest forced migrations in American history--three thousand miles on foot from Georgia to California. She and her daughters labored in...
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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United StatesA searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West, New York Times-bestselling author of Democracy Matters) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American...
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The Burning (Young Readers Edition): Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921One of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The Burning recreates Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explores the...
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The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921Includes an All-New Afterword. An unflinching account of America's most horrific racial massacre, The Burning is essential reading as America finally comes to terms with its racial past. When first published in 2001, society apparently wasn't ready for such an unstinting narrative. After it...
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The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African AmericansWhat does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering...
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The Chancellor's Mansion: A Renovation Story of Family, Home, History, and MysteryThe breathtaking story of one family's journey to restore, renovate, and preserve a historic mansion. It's a million-dollar project with gorgeous potential--and many challenges. THE CHANCELLOR'S MANSION was built by William Townsend McCoun, a public servant and abolitionist in New York City. The once-grand...
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The ChildrenThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Best and the Brightest, The Reckoning", and "The Fifties" now tells the story of the civil rights movement, as seen through the eyes of the young people--the "Children"--who became early revolutionaries in Nashville in the 1960s.Author: David HalberstamPublisher:...
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap"Read this book. It explains so much about the moment...Beautiful, heartbreaking work." --Ta-Nehisi Coates "A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family."--The Atlantic "Extraordinary...Baradaran focuses on a...
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The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's MagicBookRiot's Best New Nonfiction NPR's New Books for Summer Reading Ms. Magazine's most Anticipated Feminist Book A crucial telling of U.S. history centering the Black women whose magic gave rise to the rich tapestry of American culture, wellness, and spirituality that we see today--from...
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The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's MagicKirkus Reviews Best Books of 2025 BookRiot's Best Books of 2025 NPR's New Books to Read Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist Book A crucial telling of U.S. history centering the Black women whose magic gave rise to the rich tapestry of American culture, wellness,...
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The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North"Splendid . . . Adams's book explores class as well as race, with a richness and sophistication that recall J. Anthony Lukas's 1985 masterpiece, Common Ground." --Jeffrey Toobin, The New York Times Book Review "Passionate and well researched." --Louis Menand, The New Yorker The...
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