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The Warmth of Other Suns

By Isabel Wilkerson ,

Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Hidden Figures

By Margot Lee Shetterly ,

Book cover of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

By Saidiya V. Hartman ,

Book cover of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
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Becoming

By Michelle Obama ,

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The Cooking Gene

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Book cover of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The Fiery Trial

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Book cover of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
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The Half Has Never Been Told

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Book cover of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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The Souls of Black Folk

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Book cover of The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
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Never Caught

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Book cover of Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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At the Dark End of the Street

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Book cover of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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The Yellow House

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Book cover of The Yellow House: A Memoir
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Confederate Reckoning

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Book cover of Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
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Barracoon

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Book cover of Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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The Color of Money

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Book cover of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
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Freedom National

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Book cover of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By Frederick Douglass ,

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Medical Bondage

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Book cover of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
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The War Before the War

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Book cover of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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Radical Vision

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Book cover of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
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Knocking on Labor's Door

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Book cover of Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
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Black Gotham

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Book cover of Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
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The Slave's Cause

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Book cover of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
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Farming While Black

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Book cover of Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
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Household Workers Unite

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Book cover of Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
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Family Properties

By Beryl Satter ,

Book cover of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
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The Condemnation of Blackness

By Khalil Gibran Muhammad ,

Book cover of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface
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James Baldwin

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Book cover of James Baldwin: A Biography
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City of Inmates

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Book cover of City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965
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Illusions of Emancipation

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Book cover of Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
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They Left Great Marks on Me

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Book cover of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
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Atlanta, Cradle of the New South

By William A. Link ,

Book cover of Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath
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The Christian Imagination

By Willie James Jennings ,

Book cover of The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race
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Lynching and Spectacle

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Book cover of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
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"There Is a North"

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Book cover of "There Is a North": Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War
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Tropical Freedom

By Ikuko Asaka ,

Book cover of Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
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Representing the Race

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Book cover of Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
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Redemption

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Book cover of Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
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The Slaves' Gamble

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Book cover of The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812
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Right to Ride

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Book cover of Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson
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Occupied Territory

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Book cover of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
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The Black Russian

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Transatlantic Cultural Exchange

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Book cover of Transatlantic Cultural Exchange: African American Women's Art and Activism in West Germany
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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict

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Oscar Charleston

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Book cover of Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player
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Black Detroit

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Book cover of Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
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Behind the Scenes

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Book cover of Behind the Scenes: Or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
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Stolen

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Book cover of Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

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Book cover of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
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A World More Concrete

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Book cover of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
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Race for Profit

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Book cover of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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Detroit

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Book cover of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
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Breaking White Supremacy

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Book cover of Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
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Not in My Neighborhood

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Book cover of Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
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The Beast Side

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African Samurai

By Thomas Lockley , Geoffrey Girard ,

Book cover of African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
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Counting on Katherine

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Poet

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Black Cowboys in the American West

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Before She Was Harriet

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Becoming Belafonte

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Reclaiming 42

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Book cover of Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson's Radical Legacy
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Black Rights/White Wrongs

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Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

By Erica Armstrong Dunbar , Kathleen Van Cleve ,

Book cover of Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away
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A Computer Called Katherine

By Suzanne Slade , Veronica Miller Jamison (illustrator) ,

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Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South

By Jaime Amanda Martinez ,

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The Undercommons

By Stefano Harney , Fred Moten ,

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The Freedom Principle

By Naomi Beckwith (editor) , Dieter Roelstraete ,

Book cover of The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
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Negroland

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Book cover of Negroland: A Memoir
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Transforming Scriptures

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Book cover of Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible
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We've Got a Job

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Book cover of We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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The Search for the Underground Railroad in Upstate New York

By Tom Calarco ,

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George Washington Carver

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Book cover of George Washington Carver: A Life
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Jane Crow

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Book cover of Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
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The Speech

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Book cover of The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream
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Upending the Ivory Tower

By Stefan M. Bradley ,

Book cover of Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
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From Coveralls to Zoot Suits

By Elizabeth R. Escobedo ,

Book cover of From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
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Sick from Freedom

By Jim Downs ,

Book cover of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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The Struggle Is Eternal

By Joseph R. Fitzgerald ,

Book cover of The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
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A Voice That Could Stir an Army

By Maegan Parker Brooks ,

Book cover of A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
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Slavery and the Founders

By Paul Finkelman ,

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Stolen Childhood

By Wilma King ,

Book cover of Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
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Black against Empire

By Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr. ,

Book cover of Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
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The Women Jefferson Loved

By Virginia Scharff ,

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1919, The Year of Racial Violence

By David F. Krugler ,

Book cover of 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back
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Doctoring Freedom

By Gretchen Long ,

Book cover of Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
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Princess of the Hither Isles

By Adele Logan Alexander ,

Book cover of Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South
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Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic

By Melina Pappademos ,

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Slavery's Exiles

By Sylviane A. Diouf ,

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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

By Ayana Mathis ,

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David Ruggles

By Graham Russell Gao Hodges ,

Book cover of David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
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The Queen

By Josh Levin ,

Book cover of The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
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Bankers and Empire

By Peter James Hudson ,

Book cover of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
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Alabama in Africa

By Angela Elisabeth Zimmerman ,

Book cover of Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South