Black History Unheard Stories

A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History #5) By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780807033555
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Published: Beacon Press - February 4th, 2020

The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)—the perfect companion to An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the United States.


Thick: And Other Essays By Tressie McMillan Cottom Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781620975879
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Published: New Press - October 1st, 2019

Enviable Sales Track: nearly 20,000 copies sold in hardcover and over 4,200 e-books.


Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography By Audre Lorde Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780895941220
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Published: Crossing Press - January 1st, 1982

Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers


The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780679763888
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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a


The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) By James Baldwin Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780679744726
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Published: Vintage - December 1st, 1992

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. • "The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates


Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America By Peniel E. Joseph Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780805083354
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - July 10th, 2007

"Once in a while a book comes along that projects the spirit of an era; this is one of them . . . Vibrant and expressive . . . A well-researched and well-written work." —The Philadelphia Inquirer


Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude
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ISBN: 9780679771265
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Published: Vintage - January 26th, 1999

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens.


The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me By Keah Brown Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781982100544
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Published: Atria Books - August 6th, 2019

From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.

Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always been the case.


Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North By Thomas J. Sugrue Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780812970388
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - October 13th, 2009

Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more than eighty of the most decisive years in American history.


The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism By Edward E. Baptist Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780465049660
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Published: Basic Books - October 25th, 2016

A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people

Winner of the 2015 Avery O.


Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South By E. Patrick Johnson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780807872260
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Published: University of North Carolina Press - September 1st, 2011

Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. E.


Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination By Alondra Nelson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780816676491
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Published: Univ Of Minnesota Press - September 1st, 2013

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization’s broader struggle for social justice: health care.


Along This Way: The Autobiography Of James Weldon Johnson By James Weldon Johnson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780306809293
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Published: Da Capo Press - January 14th, 2000

Here is, to quote the eminent historian Nathan Irvin Huggins, “one of the finest American autobiographies written in this century.” Born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida, James Weldon Johnson began his career as a high-school principal. He went on to attain success as a songwriter on Broadway and as the compiler of the definitive Book of American Negro Spirituals.


Duty beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870–1920 By Le'Trice D. Donaldson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780809337590
Published: Southern Illinois University Press - January 31st, 2020

In a bold departure from previous scholarship, Le’Trice D. Donaldson locates the often overlooked era between the Civil War and the end of World War I as the beginning of black soldiers’ involvement in the long struggle for civil rights.


The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skloot Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781400052189
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Published: Crown - March 8th, 2011

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly


The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution By C.L.R. James, David Scott Scott (Introduction by) Cover Image
By C.L.R. James, David Scott Scott (Introduction by)
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ISBN: 9780679724674
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Published: Vintage - October 23rd, 1989

A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803

“One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review


Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention By Manning Marable Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780143120322
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Published: Penguin Books - December 28th, 2011

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times bestseller, the definitive biography of Malcolm X


Warriors Don't Cry By Melba Pattillo Beals Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781416948827
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Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - July 24th, 2007

In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, but the ability of young people to change ideas of race and identity.


Barracoon: The Story of the Last
By Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (Foreword by), Deborah G. Plant (Introduction by)
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ISBN: 9780062748201
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Published: Amistad - May 8th, 2018

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 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’s Best Audio Boo