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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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How the Word Is Passed

By Clint Smith ,

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America's Black Capital
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America's Black Capital

By Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar ,

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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The 1619 Project

By Nikole Hannah-Jones ,

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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Master Slave Husband Wife

By Ilyon Woo ,

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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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All That She Carried

By Tiya Miles ,

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King: A Life
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King

By Jonathan Eig ,

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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
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Vanguard

By Martha S. Jones ,

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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
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The Black Angels

By Maria Smilios ,

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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
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Crusade for Justice

By Ida B. Wells ,

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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
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Born in Blackness

By Howard W. French ,

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Capitalism and Slavery
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Capitalism and Slavery

By Eric Williams ,

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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
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The Black Butterfly

By Lawrence T. Brown ,

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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
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Unspeakable

By Carole Boston Weatherford , Floyd Cooper (illustrator) ,

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The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
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The Women's Fight

By Thavolia Glymph ,

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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
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The Grimkes

By Kerri K. Greenidge ,

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Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps
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Embattled Freedom

By Amy Murrell Taylor ,

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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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Until Justice Be Done

By Kate Masur ,

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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Sword and the Shield

By Peniel E. Joseph , Peniel E. Joseph ,

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I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography
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I Came as a Shadow

By John Thompson , Jesse Washington ,

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His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
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His Truth Is Marching on

By John Meacham ,

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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
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No Common Ground

By Karen L. Cox ,

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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
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Franchise

By Marcia Chatelain ,

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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
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Liner Notes for the Revolution

By Daphne A. Brooks ,

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From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
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From Here to Equality

By William A. Darity , A. Kirsten Mullen ,

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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
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The Broken Heart of America

By Walter Johnson ,

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
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Stamped

By Jason Reynolds , Ibram X. Kendi ,

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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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Wake

By Rebecca Hall , Hugo Martínez (illustrator) ,

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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
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Necropolis

By Kathryn Olivarius ,

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Ordinary Notes
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Ordinary Notes

By Christina Sharpe ,

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
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Black AF History

By Michael Harriot ,

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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
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South to America

By Imani Perry ,

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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
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Black Folk

By Blair LM Kelley ,

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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
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American Sirens

By Kevin Hazzard ,

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The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
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The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

By Paterson Joseph ,

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The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
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The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York

By Michael J. Douma ,

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Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
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Black Ball

By Theresa Runstedtler ,

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The Barn
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The Barn

By Wright Thompson ,

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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
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The Three Mothers

By Anna Malaika Tubbs ,

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Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter
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Black Software

By Charlton D. McIlwain ,

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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
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Radio Free Dixie

By Timothy B. Tyson ,

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A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
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A Shot in the Moonlight

By Ben Montgomery ,

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On Juneteenth
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On Juneteenth

By Annette Gordon-Reed ,

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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
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Ida B. the Queen

By Michelle Duster ,

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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
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The Youngest Marcher

By Cynthia Levinson , Vanessa Brantley-Newton (illustrator) ,

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Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War
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Colored Travelers

By Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor ,

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Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States
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Sprouting Wings

By Louisa Jaggar , Shari Becker , Floyd Cooper (illustrator)

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24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid
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24

By Willie Mays , John Shea ,

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Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
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Black Spartacus

By Sudhir Hazareesingh ,

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William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad
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William Still and His Freedom Stories

By Don Tate ,

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It Came from Memphis
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It Came from Memphis

By Robert Gordon ,

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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

By Nikole Hannah-Jones , Renée Watson , Nikkolas Smith (illustrator)

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The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall's Life, Leadership, and Legacy
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The Highest Tribute

By Kekla Magoon , Laura Freeman (illustrator) ,

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Celia, a Slave
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Celia, a Slave

By Melton A. McLaurin ,

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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North
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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood

By Crystal Lynn Webster ,

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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
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Shine Bright

By Danyel Smith ,

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The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States
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The Juneteenth Story

By Alliah L. Agostini ,

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The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
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The Colored Conventions Movement

By P. Gabrielle Foreman (editor) , Jim Casey (editor) , Sarah Lynn Patterson (editor)

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I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
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I've Been Here All the While

By Alaina E. Roberts ,

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Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
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Driving While Black

By Gretchen Sorin ,

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The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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The Nation Must Awake

By Mary E. Jones Parrish ,

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Black Teacher
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Black Teacher

By Beryl Gilroy , Bernardine Evaristo ,

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American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
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American Honor

By Craig Bruce Smith ,

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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
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Until I Am Free

By Keisha N. Blain ,

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Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
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Civil Rights Queen

By Tomiko Brown-Nagin ,

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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
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The Ground Breaking

By Scott Ellsworth ,

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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

By Karlos K. Hill ,

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Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
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Wicked Flesh

By Jessica Marie Johnson ,

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Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
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Voices of the Enslaved

By Sophie White ,

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The Essential Kerner Commission Report
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The Essential Kerner Commission Report

By Jelani Cobb (editor) , Matthew Guariglia (editor) ,

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Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
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Colorization

By Wil Haygood ,

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The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
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The Devil You Know

By Charles M Blow ,

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The Portable Anna Julia Cooper
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The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

By Anna Julia Cooper , Shirley Moody-Turner (editor) , Henry Louis Gates, Jr (editor)

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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
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Vigilance

By Andrew K. Diemer ,

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Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
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Freedom's Dominion

By Jefferson Cowie ,

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The Secret History Of Black Punk: Record Zero
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The Secret History Of Black Punk

By Raeghan Buchanan ,

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Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Jean-Michel Basquiat

By Eleanor Nairne , Hans Werner Holzwarth (editor) ,

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My N.C. from A-Z
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My N.C. from A-Z

By Michelle Lanier , Dare Coulter (illustrator) ,

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The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
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The Oldest Student

By Rita Lorraine Hubbard , Oge Mora ,

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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
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South to Freedom

By Alice L. Baumgartner ,

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Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
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Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson: The Baseball Legend's Battle for Civil Rights During World War II
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Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies
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