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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Richard J.M. Blackett Abolitionist biographies about African American history Book cover of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Book cover of Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad Book cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Book cover of Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent Book cover of David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gregg Hecimovich Recovering lost histories Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Book cover of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Book cover of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Book cover of Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
  • Richard Paul Race and racism in America during the time of the space program Book cover of Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore America's First Civil Rights Martyr Book cover of The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama Book cover of Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South Book cover of From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South 1938-1980 Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  • 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
  • Charlotte Hinger African Americans in the West after the Civil War Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction Book cover of In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990 Book cover of In Search of Canaan: Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80 Book cover of The Black Towns
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Christian Pinnen Race and slavery in colonial Mississippi Valley Book cover of Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Book cover of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Book cover of Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana Book cover of Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana Book cover of Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803
  • Judith Reifsteck The power of memory to heal racial trauma Book cover of Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy Book cover of Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America Book cover of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Book cover of The Water Dancer Book cover of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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