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  • African American Firsts, 4th Edition

    Famous, Little-Known And Unsung Triumphs Of Blacks In America

    by Joan Potter ...
    Updated With The Latest Facts And Photos"A Black history buff's dream." --EbonyFrom ground-breaking achievements to awe-inspiring feats of excellence, this definitive resource reveals over 450 "firsts" by African Americans in fields as diverse as government, entertainment, education, science, medicine, law, the military, and the business world. Discover the first doctor to perform open heart ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Two and Two Halves ... and a dog. A Blackburn Childhood

    by Joan Potter ...
    Covering an eighteen year period in which horses and carts are displaced by motor vehicles, black and white television joins the wireless as home entertainment and children are re-labelled teenagers, this memoir evokes a time of significant social change. An account of a northern childhood, it delivers snapshots not only of one family and one town, but also of a wider, vanished way of life. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Our Kind of People

    Inside America's Black Upper Class

    by Lawrence Otis Graham ...
    "Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger American picture." —New York TimesDebutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of America’s Black ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

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  • Black Detroit

    A People's History of Self-Determination

    by Herb Boyd ...
    NAACP Image Award Finalist: "Boyd's riveting new history…turns an oft-caricatured community into a world of actual, struggling human beings."—Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and MeA Michigan Notable Books HonoreeIn this book, the author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—in "a blend of memoir, love letter, history, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Black Wall Street

    From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District

    by Hannibal B Johnson ...
    Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as "The Black Wall Street of America," the Greenwood District attracted pioneers from all over America who sought new opportunities and fresh challenges. Legal segregation forced blacks to do business among themselves. The Greenwood ... Read more

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  • The Blackpool Highflyer

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Series Book 2 - Jim Stringer
    'Jim Stringer, Steam Detective, rides the footplate again in this hot-as-coals whodunnit. Sabotage, sleuthing, suspicion and steam combine with Edwardian England and railways to create a detective novel in the grand tradition of detective novels.' Express'This may well be the best fiction about the railways since Dickens.' Independent on SundayA superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Smoketown

    The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance

    by Mark Whitaker ...
    From the bestselling author of The Afterlife of Malcolm X comes a brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s—“Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who loves a good story…terrific, eminently readable…fascinating” (The Washington Post).Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August ... Read more

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  • The Encyclopedia of New York City

    Second Edition

    Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood ...
    Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published.But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Evelyn Prentis Bundle: A Nurse in Time/A Nurse in Action

    by Evelyn Prentis ...
    Desperate circumstances were something Evelyn Prentis had to get very used to when she began her life as a nurse. It was in 1934 that Evelyn left home for the first time to enrol as a trainee at a busy Nottingham hospital in the hope of £25 a year.A Nurse in Time is Evelyn's affectionate and funny account of those days of dedication and hardship, when never-ending nightshifts, strict Sisters and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Unseen

    Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives

    by Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, Rachel L. Swarns ...
    Hundreds of stunning images from Black history have been buried in the New York Times photo archives for decades. Four Times staff members unearth these overlooked photographs and investigate the stories behind them in this remarkable collection.New York Times photo editor Darcy Eveleigh made an unwitting discovery when she found dozens of never-before-published photographs from Black history in ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace

    Writing in War and Peace

    by Robert Malcolmson, Patricia Malcolmson ...
    Series Book 5 - The Diaries of Nella Last
    'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her vivid and moving diaries, written during the Second World War and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project - and the basis for BAFTA ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • On the Road to Freedom

    A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

    by Charles E. Cobb Jr. ...
    This in-depth look at the civil rights movement goes to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathered in churches; where they spoke, taught, and organized; where they were arrested, where they lost their lives, and where they triumphed.Award-winning journalist Charles E. Cobb Jr., a former organizer and field secretary for SNCC (Student Nonviolent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD