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| 117 Facts Everyone Should Know About African Americans in the Civil War John R. Gourdin trade paper 9781889246475 160 pages 16.95 This fascinating book provides a general overview of the participation of Black soldiers in the Civil War through an interactive question and answer format. More than two dozen black & white photographs help bring history alive. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS Ancient Africa Bentley Boyd staple bound 24 pages 193312203X 6.95 This volume studies many aspects of African history including Life on the Nile, Trade in Carthage, the Mali Empire, and the Middle passage. |
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| Black Boy Richard Wright trade paper 9780061130243 436 pages 15.99 This is the sixtieth anniversary edition of the classic autobiography – a journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South than forms a disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS Black Heroes of the American Revolution Burke Davis trade paper 9780152085612 96 pages 6.99 This book is a tribute to the black heroes who fought gallantly in the hope of winning their own independence, as well as for the fledgling USA. |
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| The Black Phalanx Joseph T. Wilson trade paper 9780306805509 528 pages 21.00 The author was not only a historian of the fighting black spirit in the Civil War, but also one of its soldiers. His fellow veterans urged him to write this record of the contribution of African Americans to the Ware of Independence, the War of 1812 and the Civil War. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS The Civil Rights Freedom Train Bentley Boyd staple bound 24 pages 1933122285 6.95 In this Chester Comix installment, the history of the Civil Rights movement in America is presented, highlighting Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall and Jackie Robinson. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS Escape North! The Story of Harriet Tubman Kulling & Flavin trade paper 9780375801549 48 pages 3.99 This Step into Reading title shares the exciting and inspiring story of Harriet Tubman and her work with the Underground Railroad. |
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| Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights Philip S. Foner, editor trade paper 9780306804892 200 pages 17.00 The great 19th century writer and abolitionist included women both black and white in his definition of justice, as this collection shows. |
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| Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Catherine Clinton trade paper 9780316155946 286 pages 16.00 This biography. praised for its impeccable research and compelling narrative, reveals the Underground Railroad’s Harriet Tubman as a singular and complex character. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America Kamma & Johnson trade paper 9780439567060 64 pages 6.99 This book tells about the difficult life that a slave faced and how slaves found ways to overcome some of the hardships. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad Levine & Johnson trade paper 9780590451567 64 pages 6.99 This book tells you what it was like to be a slave trying to escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Where was the safest place to go? Would you wear a disguise? |
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| Introduction to African American Photographs 1840-1950 Ross J. Kelbaugh trade paper 120 pages 1577471156 14.95 This fascinating volume is the first book to focus on ways for determining the age of vintage photographs and researching the people recorded in them as well as providing information on their proper care for collectors. |
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| Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Stephen B. Oates trade paper 9780062321459 578 pages 19.99 This prizewinning book is the definitive one volume life of Martin Luther King, Jr., a man whose dream shaped American history. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS Martin Luther King Jr.: Young Man with a Dream Milender & Fiorentino trade paper 9780020420101 192 pages 5.99 This entry in the classic “Childhood of Famous Americans" series tells the story of the “martyr for freedom, who had sought by nonviolent means to end the last remnants of slavery in America.” Ages 8-12. |
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| The Other Annapolis 1900-1950 Philip L. Brown hardcover 9781884878008 148 pages 29.95 This history of racial segregation in Annapolis is chronicled here through a collection of historic photographs and the personal experiences of the author and his friends. This reprint is a special memorial edition. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS Reconstruction Junction Bentley Boyd staple bound 24 pages 9781933122342 6.95 This fact-packed comic covers the Reconstruction, the KKK crisis, George Washington Carver and Railroad recovery. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS Revolutionary Poet Weidt & Young trade paper 9781575050591 64 pages 8.95 Phillis Wheatley arrived in Boston as a slave in 1761. By 1771, literary critics were calling her the "extraordinary Negro poetess." Here is her story. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS Slavery's Storm Bentley Boyd staple bound 24 pages 0972961674 6.95 This somber edition tells of Nat Turner, the Mexican War, Dred Scott and John Brown, covering up to the year 1859. |
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| NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING NOVEL Song Yet Sung James McBride trade paper 9781594483509 370 pages 15.00 “In the days before the Civil War, a group of slaves breaks free in the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves and free blacks.” |
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| A Testament of Hope James M. Washington, editor trade paper 9780060646912 736 pages 23.99 Here, in the only major one-volume collection of his writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections, is Martin Luther King Jr. on nonviolence, integration, and the ethics of love and hope. |
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| Two Pieces of Clothes: A Conversation Hal Roth trade paper 0-9647694-9-2 166 pages 12.95 This collection of reminiscences provides a window into a neglected aspect of our history. It shares the thoughts and beliefs of a dozen elderly African American citizens of the Eastern Shore of Maryland who "came up" in the early years of the twentieth century. B & w photos. |
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| Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia William J. Switala trade paper 168 pages 9780811731430 19.95 Using a series of detailed maps, this book retraces the routes refugees followed and examines the impact of geography, transportation, free blacks and religious congregations on the operation. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS Who Was Harriet Tubman? McDonough & Harrison trade paper 9780448428895 106 pages 4.99 Born a slave in Maryland, she helped hundreds of people on their journeys to freedom on the Underground Railroad. |
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| FOR YOUNG READERS Wonder Women Bentley Boyd staple bound 24 pages 0972961690 6.95 This inspiring installment gives biographical details for four valiant American women--Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony and Helen Keller. |
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