Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1914. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 6 pages. The multi-talented Johnson was an early black leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),in which organization he served as executive secretary from 1920 to 1930. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and.....
N.A.A.C.P., 1941. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 2 mimeographed sheets, 8.5 x 14 inches, printed on recto only. Prepared 'For use of ministers and speakers on N.A.A.C.P. National Defense Day Program January 26, 1941'. (crossed out in pencil). Report details the discrimination faced by the Negro at all levels in the.....
St. Martin's Griffin, January 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. New York Times Editor's Pick. Library Journal Best Books of 2019. TIME Magazine's Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far. O, Oprah's Magazine's "10 Titles to Pick Up Now." Politics & Current Events 2018 O.W.L......
One World, February 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present--edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain.....
Penguin Classics, July 2000. Trade Paperback. One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861.....
St. Martin's Press, April 2018. Hardcover. Named a 2018 Notable Work of Nonfiction by The Washington Post NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Winner, The 2018 Southern Book Prize NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Chicago Tribune - Time - Publisher's Weekly A stunning follow up to.....
St. Martin's Press, January 2017. Hardcover. NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, GUELPH MERCURY TRIBUNE, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post - Bustle - Men's Journal - The Chicago Reader.....
Heyday, August 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. For the first time in paperback, a powerful and raw glimpse behind the scenes of the Black Panther Party Making Revolution is Don Cox's revelatory, even incendiary account of his years in the Black Panther Party. He had participated in many peaceful.....
The New Press, January 2020. Trade Paperback. Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--one of the most influential books of the past 20 years.....
Beacon Press, February 2020. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life's work of.....
Seal Press, September 2019. Trade Paperback. In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still.....
Amistad, May 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 - Economist Book of the Year - SELF.com's Best Books of 2018 -.....
Spiegel & Grau, October 2015. Hardcover. The author's book-length letter to his son about growing up black in America, and the on-going struggle against white supremacy. Part biography, part American history. Winner of the National Book Award. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.....
Marvin X, 2009. Trade Paperback. 10 pages. Marvin X argues that behind the killing of Bailey were the Oakland Police Department, local politicians and Mexican drug dealers (no named individuals). Marvin X is a poet, playwright and essayist whose work is associated with the Black Arts/Black Aesthetics Movement. He has.....
Basic Books, September 2017. Trade Paperback. The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this.....
Sourcebooks, January 2020. Hardcover. The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of.....
Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination.....
Penguin Classics, February 2021. Trade Paperback. A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young.....
Hill and Wang, 1995. Trade Paperback. 233 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback). With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps (1902-73), an important figure during and after the Harlem Renaissance, author of more than 25 novels, and.....
Vintage, January 1999. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication. "Monumental. . . . An important contribution to the.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 315 pages. First edition (first printing). A gently read copy in a fine dust jacket. In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass promised African Americans that serving in the military offered a sure path to freedom. Once.....
Beacon Press, June 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with light fading to the edges of back cover. The landmark story of how interracial love and marriage changed American history--and continues to alter the landscape of American politics When Mildred and.....
Vintage, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From a brilliant young legal scholar comes this sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape our nation. Spanning three centuries, Black Trials details the legal challenges.....
The New Press, 2006. Trade Paperback. 382 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But.....
Tribeca Books, July 2011. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). This is a beautiful designed large format edition of the classic THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO by Carter G. Woodson. One of the most important books on education ever written.