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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Alison M. Parker Biographies of Black women Book cover of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry Book cover of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Book cover of Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay Book cover of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Book cover of Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
  • Frank J. Cirillo The long and difficult fight against slavery in America Book cover of Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race Book cover of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Book cover of Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Book cover of Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence Book cover of Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
  • John Poniske Reflecting on our current cultural impasse Book cover of The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Book cover of Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South Book cover of The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War Book cover of Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction Book cover of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
  • 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
  • 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
  • Anthony Grooms To teach about the civil rights movement Book cover of Silver Rights Book cover of Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers Book cover of Why We Can't Wait Book cover of Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology Book cover of We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
  • John C. Rodrigue Emancipation during the U.S. Civil War Book cover of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 Book cover of Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery Book cover of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction Book cover of The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation Book cover of Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
  • Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani Struggles through the stories of real people Book cover of Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape Book cover of Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It Book cover of Fragile Dwelling: How the Homeless Create Places of Their Own Book cover of Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  • 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
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