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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Laurence Fenton The life of Frederick Douglass Book cover of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Book cover of Frederick Douglass Book cover of Young Frederick Douglass Book cover of Women in the World of Frederick Douglass Book cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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