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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

By W.E.B. Du Bois ,

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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
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Rising Tide

By John M. Barry ,

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To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
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To 'Joy My Freedom

By Tera W. Hunter ,

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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
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Walking with the Wind

By John Lewis , Michael D'Orso ,

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James Baldwin: Collected Essays
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James Baldwin

By James Baldwin , Toni Morrison , Toni Morrison

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Worse Than Slavery
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Worse Than Slavery

By David M. Oshinsky ,

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Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
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Race Rebels

By Robin D. G. Kelley ,

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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
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Making Whiteness

By Grace Elizabeth Hale ,

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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
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The Promised Land

By Nicholas Lemann ,

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Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well

By Derrick Bell ,

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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
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Runaway Slaves

By John Hope Franklin , Loren Schweninger ,

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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
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In Search of the Racial Frontier

By Quintard Taylor ,

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A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America
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A Country of Strangers

By David K. Shipler ,

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Jackie Robinson: A Biography
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Jackie Robinson

By Arnold Rampersad ,

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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
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American Apartheid

By Douglas S. Massey , Nancy A. Denton ,

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Colored People: A Memoir
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Colored People

By Henry Louis Gates ,

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Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources
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Voice of Deliverance

By Keith D. Miller ,

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The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word That Moved America
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The Preacher King

By Richard Lischer ,

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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

By Annette Gordon-Reed ,

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Communities of Resistance: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism
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Communities of Resistance

By A. Sivanandan ,

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On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front
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On the Altar of Freedom

By James Henry Gooding ,

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Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
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Only the Ball Was White

By Robert Peterson ,

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African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920
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African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920

By Rosalyn Terborg-Penn ,

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Rage
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Rage

By Gilbert Moore ,

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Silver Rights
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Silver Rights

By Constance Curry , Marian Wright Edelman (illustrator) ,

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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself

By Mary Prince ,

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Stylin': African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit
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Stylin'

By Shane White , Graham White ,

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Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
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Africans in Colonial Louisiana

By Gwendolyn Midlo Hall ,

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Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803
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Bounded Lives, Bounded Places

By Kimberly S. Hanger ,

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The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa
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The Hero with an African Face

By Clyde W. Ford ,

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Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
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Gabriel's Rebellion

By Douglas R. Egerton ,

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Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
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Life on the Color Line

By Gregory Howard Williams ,

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The Wall Between
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The Wall Between

By Anne Braden ,

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Rituals Of Blood: The Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries
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Rituals Of Blood

By Orlando Patterson ,

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To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II
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To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race

By Brenda L. Moore ,

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Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
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Just My Soul Responding

By Brian Ward ,

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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
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A Taste of Power

By Elaine Brown ,

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A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina
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A Hard Fight for We

By Leslie A. Schwalm ,

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Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light
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Paris Noir

By Tyler Stovall ,

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Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore America's First Civil Rights Martyr
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Before His Time

By Ben Green ,

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The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama
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The Schoolhouse Door

By E. Culpepper Clark ,

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Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South
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Under Sentence of Death

By W. Fitzhugh Brundage (editor) ,

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Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Marching Together

By Melinda Chateauvert ,

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The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861
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The Cotton Kingdom

By Frederick Olmsted ,

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Art on My Mind
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Art on My Mind

By bell hooks ,

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Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868
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Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends

By Farah Jasmine Griffin (editor) ,

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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

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