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  • Harold, the People’s Mayor

    The Biography of Harold Washington

    “Harold Washington was one of the most spellbinding and irresistible characters I have encountered in my 40 years in journalism and politics. Part philosopher, part street brawler and always entertaining, Harold was as big and ebullient as the town he came to lead.” —David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Barack ObamaHarold, the People's Mayor is the authorized biography of Chicago's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Autobiography of Black Chicago

    Few were more qualified than Dempsey Travis to write the history of African Americans in Chicago, and none would be able to do it with the same command of firsthand sources. This seminal paperback reissue, An Autobiography of Black Chicago, emulates the best works of Studs Terkel - portraying the African American Chicago community through the personal experiences of Dempsey Travis, his family, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley

    An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable.They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and ... Read more

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  • Reluctant Pioneer

    How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush

    The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.For the next ... Read more

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  • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

    A Memoir of Africa

    by Peter Godwin ...
    Award-winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes with pathos and intimacy about Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos—and, along with it, his family's steady collapse—in this unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present.After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from ... Read more

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  • Two Nations

    Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal

    by Andrew Hacker ...
    In this groundbreaking study, Andrew Hacker offers a fresh and disturbing examination of the divisions of color and class in present-day America, analyzing the conditions that keep black and white Americans dangerously far apart in their ability to achieve the American dream.Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan

    Right-Wing Movements and National Politics

    by Rory McVeigh ...
    Series series Social Movements, Protest and Contention
    In 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society. By the early 1920s the KKK had been transformed into a national movement with millions of dues-paying members and chapters in all of the nation’s forty-eight states. And unlike the Reconstruction-era society, the ... Read more

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  • Are Italians White?

    How Race is Made in America

    This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country's leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question - Are Italians White? Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the significance of gender, class and nation to racial identity. ... Read more

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  • Harriet Tubman

    Freedom Seeker, Freedom Leader

    Series Book 31 - Quest Biography
    Born in the United States and enslaved as a child, Harriet Tubman (circa 1820-1913) is one of the best-known figures connected to the Underground Railroad. Through her knowledge and outdoor survival skills, honed through her unpaid labour in the fields and through the later connections she made in the abolitionist community, Tubman was well poised to command her followers. By her discipline and ... Read more

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  • Whose Detroit?

    Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City

    **"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post–World War II America."**â• Library JournalIn Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves ... Read more

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  • Africa's Children

    A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

    "Africa’s Children is a testament to one’s heritage, a belief in one’s ancestors, and a record of truth … no told!" – Dr. Henry V. Bishop, chief curator, Black Cultural Centre, Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaChronicling the history of Black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia, Africa’s Children is a mirror image of the hopes and despairs and the achievements and injustices that mark the early ... Read more

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  • Hearts Beating for Liberty

    Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest

    Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest.Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest — with its own complicated history of slavery and racism — created a uniquely collaborative and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD