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  • Christina Proenza-Coles African Americans who shaped democracy in America Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition Book cover of A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 Book cover of Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War Book cover of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
  • Steven Rogers Reasons behind the enormous racial wealth gap Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Book cover of The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States Book cover of Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America Book cover of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
  • James Overmyer Black baseball leagues before Jackie Robinson Book cover of Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams Book cover of If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy Satchel Paige Book cover of Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy Book cover of Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player Book cover of Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
  • Katie McCabe Black women disruptors Book cover of The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Book cover of Harriet Jacobs: The Remarkable Adventures of the Woman Who Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Book cover of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Book cover of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Book cover of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
  • Jonathan Shandell Black culture and history in the Civil Rights era Book cover of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry Book cover of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical Book cover of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy Book cover of Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson's Radical Legacy Book cover of Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance
  • Kellie Carter Jackson Black resistance to white supremacy with a path toward liberation Book cover of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action Book cover of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Book cover of Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
  • Marcia Chatelain Racial capitalism Book cover of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida Book cover of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Book cover of Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980 Book cover of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Book cover of Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship
  • Anna Mae Duane Black New Yorkers you wish you had learned about in history class Book cover of The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict Book cover of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 Book cover of Freedom Fire Book cover of Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City Book cover of Stories of Freedom in Black New York
  • Nina Silber The ongoing legacy of the American Civil War Book cover of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory Book cover of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Book cover of On Juneteenth Book cover of Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Book cover of No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
  • Marcia E. Herman-Giddens Genealogy and racial justice for truth Book cover of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Book cover of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Book cover of The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth Book cover of The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 Book cover of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
  • Susanna Ashton New discoveries in Black History Book cover of The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative Book cover of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Book cover of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Book cover of Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge Book cover of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
  • Fergus M. Bordewich The bloody history of Reconstruction Book cover of The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era Book cover of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Book cover of Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy Book cover of The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction Book cover of The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Mary Rizzo Why Baltimore's problems are so hard to fix Book cover of Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City Book cover of The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America Book cover of I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad Book cover of Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City Book cover of The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
  • Justin Iverson Black resistance to slavery Book cover of Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War Book cover of Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons Book cover of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition Book cover of Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies Book cover of The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America
  • Mark Whitaker The great Black migration Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America Book cover of Invisible Man Book cover of Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination Book cover of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
  • Keisha N. Blain Black women in the Civil Rights Movement Book cover of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Book cover of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Book cover of The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation Book cover of A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement Book cover of Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • Matthew J. Clavin Slave resistance and revolts Book cover of American Negro Slave Revolts Book cover of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution Book cover of Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation Book cover of Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South Book cover of Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
  • Greta de Jong Race and class in the United States Book cover of The Invention of the White Race Vol II Book cover of Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy Book cover of Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class Book cover of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Book cover of Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
  • Paul Kendrick Memoirs of the civil rights movement Book cover of Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Book cover of An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America Book cover of Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy Book cover of My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance Book cover of Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
  • Seth Mallios Confronting slavery and how it impacts society today Book cover of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Book cover of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Book cover of Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives Book cover of Slave Stealers: True Accounts of Slave Rescues: Then and Now Book cover of Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
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