African Americans Books


Reparations for Slavery: A Reader Best Price: $30.00 Reparations for Slavery: A Reader is a collection of essays on the topic of reparations for...	Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class: The American Missionary Association and Black Atlanta, 1870-1900 Best Price: $29.92 Moral reform movements targeting racial minorities have long been central in negotiating the...	He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey (American Profiles) Best Price: $26.36 The Lives of Denmark Vesey is a story of an atypical slave (Telemaque) born in the Caribbean who...	Everyday Forms of Whiteness: Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World (Perspectives on a Multiracial America) Best Price: $53.95 The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the...	Loyalty in Time of Trial: The African American Experience During World War I (The African American History Series) Best Price: $28.63 In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of...



Black Faces of War: A Legacy of Honor from the American Revolution to Today Best Price: $15.90 Mention of the blacks in the military inevitably brings to mind the Tuskegee Airmen or perhaps...	Africana: Arts and Letters: An A-to-Z Reference of Writers, Musicians, and Artists of the African American Experience Best Price: $0.01 Here?s an eminently readable reference of African-American contributions to the arts, faithfully...	The Fight of the Century: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and the Struggle for Racial Equality Best Price: $24.66 Not Running, Not Hiding Thomas Hietala's Fight of the Century: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis,...	Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes Best Price: $7.48 My grandfather Petronillo Cantoni, a resident of Chateau-Salins, long recalled "the black...	The Negro Leagues in New Jersey: A History Best Price: $28.95 This work examines the historical significance of the state of New Jersey in the Negro League...



Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography Best Price: $53.00 Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the...	I Have A Dream: Writings And Speeches That Changed The World (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Best Price: $20.48 FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Gathers speeches, sermons, letters, and essays from each...	Room 606: The Sas House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen Best Price: $767.47 The Dalai Lama was staying at the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel when I was in Copenhagen, a month...	African-American Life On the Southern Hunting Plantation (GA) (Voices of America) Best Price: $14.08 By the early 1900s, virtually all of the rich plantation land in the Red Hills between...	Richmond (VA) (Black America Series) Best Price: $13.28 WOW! As a native Richmonder I was completely awed by this book. It captures the lives and events...

Around Surry County (NC) (Black America) Best Price: $14.55 I am researching my family ancestry and because I was born in Surry County and still have many...	Detroit:: The Black Bottom Community (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) Best Price: $14.76 There are other documentaries about the history of Detroit and the Black Bottom era however,...	A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation Best Price: $17.33 I always think that getting first-hand accounts of historical events is like finding a pocket...	Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin Best Price: $26.19 I picked up this book in an airport bookstore shortly after its hardcover release and I...	Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin (Random House Large Print) Best Price: $7.52 I'll give this 5 stars so you as a reader might become more interested in the hidden history...

Black Genius and the American Experience Best Price: $3.90 Most biographical profiles of African-Americans are to general in their view of the person or...	Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry Best Price: $17.50 To realize the urban redevelopment programs of the 1960s, cities employed exclusively white...	Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas (Creating the North American Landscape) Best Price: $3.98 After much research and hard work this documentary of the Hamilton Park Community is as accurate...	The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters Best Price: $16.06 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) Open...	They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's Black Pioneers Best Price: $10.24 Ron Thomas' They Cleared the Lane is a wonderful read about the history of basketball and...

Those Pullman Blues: An Oral History of the African-American Railroad Attendant (Twayne's Oral History Series) Best Price: $33.00 I wasn't sure what to expect when I started reading this book, but quickly became caught up...	African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 Best Price: $16.80 College-level collections strong in either women's history or Afro-American issues will find...	The African-American Soldier: From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell Best Price: $8.95 y history of the United States, "The African-American Soldier" portrays the struggles...	Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $18.99 ok. Maybe I'm biased since I am a direct descendant of many of the African/FPOC families...	Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy: 1699-1860 I found this to be an excellent reference. This data is more valuable than the 45 dollar...

Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois Best Price: $14.50 On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois died in...	Slavery in Alabama (Library Alabama Classics) Best Price: $39.97	Gomillion Versus Lightfoot: The Right to Vote in Apartheid Alabama (Alabama Fire Ant) Best Price: $5.00 As a result of Gomillion vs. Lightfoot , the Supreme Court unanimously questioned the...	Standing Before the Shouting Mob: Lenoir Chambers and Virginia's Massive Resistance to Public School Integration Best Price: $23.94	Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South (Studies in the Legal History of the South) Best Price: $49.95 After reading this book, one becomes aware of the importance of boundaries in nineteenth-century...

Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860 Best Price: $39.95 Lines in the Sand is Timothy Lockley?s nuanced look at the interaction between nonslaveholding...	Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide Best Price: $8.06 Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this new textbook is both an introduction to...	Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow Best Price: $17.82 Using Savannah, Georgia as a case study, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition tells the story of the...	From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy (Constitutional Conflicts) Best Price: $21.50 Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education , the 1954...	Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962 (New Americanists) Best Price: $22.62 In Black Empire , Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of ?transnational blackness? that...

The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh Best Price: $29.00 this book was really interesting and would be a good reference, but to sit down and read it was...	Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era Best Price: $26.20 Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era is an invaluable addition...	Prophesying Daughters: Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 Best Price: $27.15 The years leading up to the Civil War and the ones that preceded it were a time of great change...	The Black Citizen-Soldiers of Kansas, 1864-1901 Best Price: $34.92 The right to defend one's country isn't something that wasn't always permitted black...	Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West Best Price: $69.95 I wish to thank Frank for his hard work. Knowing first hand how much time and effort it takes to...

Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices on Resistance, Reform, and Renewal An African American Anthology Best Price: $44.95 This Afro-American anthology provides accounts of civil rights reforms, history and resistance,...	Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America Best Price: $49.99 This book details some amazing points of history that I have never learned about anywhere else....	The Cost of Unity: African-American Agency and Education and the Christian Church, 1865-1914 (Voices of the African Diaspora) Best Price: $32.59	The Souls of W.E.B. Du Bois: New Essays and Reflections Best Price: $22.50	Evangelism and Discipleship in African-American Churches Best Price: $7.73 The church is the crucial center of the African-American community. Yet, while countless books...

Resistance, Parody and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910 Best Price: $40.00 The history of African American performance and theatre is a topic that few scholars have...	A Comprehensive Name Index for The American Slave With the publication of Howard E. Potts, A Comprehensive Name Index for the American Slave...	Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route Best Price: $5.02 This is a story of rejection of those of us forced into slavery by force and not by choice, by...	We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century Best Price: $7.25 This book is better than reality tv. It is a collection of real life accounts, diary entries,...	The Black Panthers in the Midwest: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966-1977 (Studies in African American History and Culture) Best Price: $111.91 This book analyzes the community programs of the Black Panther Party, specifically those of the...

Black Mutiny: Revolt on the Schooner Amistad Best Price: $2.99 I set upon to read this book to read a real account of what happened on the Amistad before I saw...	Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies) Best Price: $26.00 Paul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he...	Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies) Best Price: $23.25 Douglas Flamming has done scholars, historians, and the public a favor by putting out the first...	No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War Best Price: $62.87	Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South Their Highest Potential, written by Vanessa Siddle Walker, is an extensively researched book...

Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South Gomez has done a tremendous service to the study of Africana by giving tangible evidence to what...	Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power Best Price: $44.28 Tim Tyson's Radio Free Dixie is an exciting and important contribution to the ever-expanding...	Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Best Price: $56.95 Ella Baker must be the most underrated figure in U.S. history. There are plenty of Presidents...	Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865 Best Price: $95.00 Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous...	There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality Best Price: $64.97 This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers...

Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa Best Price: $28.30 Founded by free people of color in Philadelphia in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the...	The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) Best Price: $23.95 This was a great book telling how the laws prejudeces i reccomend it to anybody interested in...	Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations Best Price: $25.21 So many people attribute African American healing to other cultures, particularly European...	Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) Best Price: $95.17 Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New Orleanians as they fought to survive Hurricane...	The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations Best Price: $2.99 Booker T. Washington has long held an ambiguous position in the pantheon of black leadership....

The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929 (New Black Studies Series) Best Price: $51.00 During the Roaring '20s, African Americans rapidly transformed their Chicago into a...	Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance Best Price: $54.95 The Harlem Renaissance is rightly considered to be a moment of creative exuberance and...	Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985 (Blacks in the Diaspora) Best Price: $252.86 Readers in African American history as well as American business history will find this study...	Reflections of the Dream: 1975-1994, Twenty Years Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo Bringing together speeches given at the Institute's annual King day honouring the memory and...	Flames After Midnight: Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May 1922, has been forgotten by the outside world. It was a...

Rome and the African Church in the Time of Augustine Best Price: $110.07 For those of us who read Augustine mainly for his philosophical and theological thought, it is...	King's Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (Icons of America) Best Price: $8.32 In his speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial during the August 28, 1963, March on Washington,...	Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations Best Price: $6.95 In 1906 Atlanta, after a summer of inflammatory headlines and accusations of black-on-white...	The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines Best Price: $14.21 With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine...	A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Cu) Best Price: $15.58 This presents valuable statistics and information regarding what African American faced during...

Children of Fire: A History of African Americans Best Price: $6.98 In the tradition of John Hope Franklin--- one of the dedicatees--- Holt has written an overview...	Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (Politics and Culture in Modern America) Best Price: $49.94 Up South traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians to turn the City of...	Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America Best Price: $17.95 In Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America , Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions...	Harlem at War: The Black Experience in Wwii Best Price: $16.08 Nat Brand does a great job of highlighting the experiences of African Americans in WWII....	Journey to Freedom: The African-American Great Migration (Library of African-American History) Discusses the northward journey of Black southerners, the greatest internal mass migration of...

Afro Orientalism Best Price: $58.47	Revolution Televised: Prime Time and The Struggle for Black Power Best Price: $56.97 Props to the Author for Bringing to Light Black Images&the battle on Network tv...	The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh Best Price: $29.00 this book was really interesting and would be a good reference, but to sit down and read it was...	Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era Best Price: $26.20 Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era is an invaluable addition...	Prophesying Daughters: Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 Best Price: $27.15 The years leading up to the Civil War and the ones that preceded it were a time of great change...

The Black Citizen-Soldiers of Kansas, 1864-1901 Best Price: $34.92 The right to defend one's country isn't something that wasn't always permitted black...	Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West Best Price: $69.95 I wish to thank Frank for his hard work. Knowing first hand how much time and effort it takes to...	Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices on Resistance, Reform, and Renewal An African American Anthology Best Price: $44.95 This Afro-American anthology provides accounts of civil rights reforms, history and resistance,...	Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America Best Price: $49.99 This book details some amazing points of history that I have never learned about anywhere else....	The Cost of Unity: African-American Agency and Education and the Christian Church, 1865-1914 (Voices of the African Diaspora) Best Price: $32.59

The Souls of W.E.B. Du Bois: New Essays and Reflections Best Price: $22.50

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