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West with the Night: A Memoir
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West with the Night

By Beryl Markham ,

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The Wretched of the Earth
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The Wretched of the Earth

By Frantz Fanon , Richard Philcox (translator) ,

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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The Hemingses of Monticello

By Annette Gordon-Reed ,

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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A Long Way Gone

By Ishmael Beah ,

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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

By Barbara Ransby ,

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs ,

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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Medical Apartheid

By Harriet A. Washington ,

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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Slavery by Another Name

By Douglas A. Blackmon ,

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
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Race and Reunion

By David W. Blight ,

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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
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Can't Stop Won't Stop

By Jeff Chang ,

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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
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Saltwater Slavery

By Stephanie E. Smallwood ,

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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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The Slave Ship

By Marcus Rediker ,

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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow

By C. Vann Woodward ,

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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
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Harriet Tubman

By Catherine Clinton ,

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Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
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Complicity

By Anne Farrow , Joel Lang , Jennifer Frank

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When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
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When Marian Sang

By Pam Muñoz Ryan , Brian Selznick (illustrator) ,

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12 Million Black Voices
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12 Million Black Voices

By Richard Wright ,

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The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
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The Reaper's Garden

By Vincent Brown ,

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Why We Can't Wait
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Why We Can't Wait

By Martin Luther King, Jr. ,

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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
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Lose Your Mother

By Saidiya V. Hartman ,

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Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
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Epic Journeys of Freedom

By Cassandra Pybus ,

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River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War
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River Run Red

By Andrew Ward ,

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Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America
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Women at the Front

By Jane E. Schultz ,

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The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
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The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers

By Joseph M Thomas , Scott Korb , Jean Fagan Yellin

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Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
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Self-Taught

By Heather Andrea Williams ,

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The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America
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The Showman and the Slave

By Benjamin Reiss ,

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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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Inhuman Bondage

By David Brion Davis ,

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Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
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Dividing Lines

By J. Mills Thornton ,

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The History of Mary Prince
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The History of Mary Prince

By Mary Prince ,

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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton

By Jeffrey Haas ,

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Harriet Jacobs: The Remarkable Adventures of the Woman Who Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Harriet Jacobs

By Jean Fagan Yellin ,

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On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
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On Her Own Ground

By A’Lelia Bundles ,

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John Brown
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John Brown

By W.E.B. Du Bois ,

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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin's Big Words

By Doreen Rappaport , Bryan Collier (illustrator) ,

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To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City
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To Stand and Fight

By Martha Biondi ,

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Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
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Mrs. Dred Scott

By Lea Vandervelde ,

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When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front
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When Sherman Marched North from the Sea

By Jacqueline Glass Campbell ,

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The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me

By Jonathan Rieder ,

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Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy
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Nothing But Freedom

By Eric Foner ,

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In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
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In the Shadow of Slavery

By Leslie M. Harris ,

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Stories of Freedom in Black New York
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Stories of Freedom in Black New York

By Shane White ,

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Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
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Negro League Baseball

By Neil Lanctot ,

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An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America
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An Easy Burden

By Andrew Young ,

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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
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Without Sanctuary

By James Allen ,

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Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era
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Black Culture and the New Deal

By Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff ,

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Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980
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Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980

By Devin Fergus ,

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Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Shout, Sister, Shout!

By Gayle F. Wald ,

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A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804
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A Colony of Citizens

By Laurent Dubois ,

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Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
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Working Cures

By Sharla M. Fett ,

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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour

By Peniel E. Joseph ,

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Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
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Black Is a Country

By Nikhil Pal Singh ,

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Child of the Civil Rights Movement
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement

By Paula Young Shelton , Raul Colón (illustrator) ,

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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown

By Philip Dray ,

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Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
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Here in Harlem

By Walter Dean Myers ,

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The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West
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The Buffalo Soldiers

By William H. Leckie , Shirley A. Leckie ,

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The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877
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The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877

By Paul H. Carlson ,

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Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists
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Creating Their Own Image

By Lisa E. Farrington ,

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Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War
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Confederate Emancipation

By Bruce Levine ,

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African American Women of the Old West
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African American Women of the Old West

By Tricia Martineau Wagner ,

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An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
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An American Insurrection

By William Doyle ,

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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
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Going Down Jericho Road

By Michael K. Honey ,

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Up From Slavery
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Up From Slavery

By Booker T. Washington ,

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Soul Patrol: The Riveting True Story of the First African American LRRP Team in Vietnam
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Soul Patrol

By Ed Emanuel ,

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On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
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On the Road to Freedom

By Charles E. Cobb Jr. ,

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Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
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Buried in the Bitter Waters

By Elliot Jaspin ,

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David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World
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David Walker's Appeal

By David Walker ,

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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
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All Bound Up Together

By Martha S. Jones ,

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Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C.
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Radical Sisters

By Anne M. Valk ,

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Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
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Dreams of Africa in Alabama

By Sylviane A. Diouf ,

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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
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Blood Done Sign My Name

By Timothy B. Tyson ,

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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
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Thelonious Monk

By Robin D. G. Kelley ,

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The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown
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The Birth of Black America

By Tim Hashaw ,

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The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War
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The South vs. The South

By William W. Freehling ,

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Stagolee Shot Billy
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Stagolee Shot Billy

By Cecil Brown ,

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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
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Closer to Freedom

By Stephanie M. H. Camp ,

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Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
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Birthing a Slave

By Marie Jenkins Schwartz ,

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The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America
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The River Flows On

By Walter C. Rucker ,

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Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White
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Love on Trial

By Earl Lewis , Heidi Ardizzone ,

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Ruined
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Ruined

By Lynn Nottage ,

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Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910
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Colored Amazons

By Kali N. Gross ,

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©
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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
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A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
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The Day Freedom Died

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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: An African American Heritage Book
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
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Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers
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The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
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The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
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The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women During the Slave Era
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It
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On the Shoulders of Giants
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Passing Strange
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