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Parting the Waters
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Parting the Waters

By Taylor Branch ,

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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
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Baseball's Great Experiment

By Jules Tygiel ,

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Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
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Bloods

By Wallace Terry ,

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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

By James D. Anderson ,

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Mules and Men
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Mules and Men

By Zora Neale Hurston , Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator) ,

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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
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Within the Plantation Household

By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ,

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Young Frederick Douglass
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Young Frederick Douglass

By Dickson J. Preston ,

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Origins of the Civil Rights Movements
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Origins of the Civil Rights Movements

By Aldon D. Morris ,

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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
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Making the Second Ghetto

By Arnold R. Hirsch ,

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
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Eyes on the Prize

By Juan Williams ,

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Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent
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Alexander Crummell

By Wilson Jeremiah Moses ,

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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
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The Chalice and the Blade

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Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
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Song in a Weary Throat

By Pauli Murray ,

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