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1	The Mis-Education of the Negro more books like this by Carter Godwin Woodson add to wishlist Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.35! \| SVS
2	Passing more books like this by Nella Larsen add to wishlist A light-skinned African American woman is married to a white man who is ignorant of her racial heritage. Her childhood friend, equally capable of "passing," has chosen to live her life as a black woman and deny the existence of racism. A chance meeting forces both women to confront truths about themselves. First published in 1929, this novel has ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Raisin in the Sun more books like this by Lorraine Hansberry add to wishlist The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans more books like this by John Hope Franklin add to wishlist This classic in African American studies was first published in 1947; it has been a standard text ever since, and has been revised several times. Professors Franklin and Moss provide a comprehensive survey of the African American experience--including slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights movement--and highlight movements of self ... see all copies from $2.87! new only from $39.18! \| SVS
5	Song of Solomon more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist In Toni Morrison's powerful 1977 novel, Milkman Dead hears a strange story: his father and his aunt Pilate witnessed their father's murder, and Pilate has carried his bones around with her for 20 years. Milkman travels south to find that this grandfather (who fled slavery and escaped, creating a myth of flight) has been immortalized in folktales ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Souls of Black Folk more books like this by W E B Du Bois, PH.D. add to wishlist This fictionalized account of the life of aviatrix Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first female African-American to receive a pilot's license, is told through a series of poems/eulogies presented at her funeral by those who knew her or knew of her adventures, celebrating Coleman's achievements while informing readers of the circumstances of her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color more books like this by Iyanla Vanzant add to wishlist Iyanla Vanzant, a Yoruba priestess, offers brief and insightful pearls of wisdom that help to clear one's mind, and provide something positive on which to focus throughout the day. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The strange career of Jim Crow more books like this by C. Vann Woodward add to wishlist This study of segregation was first published in 1955 and has long been considered a classic work in the history of the American South. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.40! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Intuitionist more books like this by Colson Whitehead add to wishlist This urban thriller introduces black heroine, Lila Mae Watson. It is election year in the Elevator Guild and the Empiricists would love nothing better than to bring down an Intuitionist. As Lila Mae seeks to uncover the truth she is sucked into a violent whirlpool of conspiracy and deceit. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Your Blues Ain't Like Mine more books like this by Bebe Moore Campbell add to wishlist In the pre-integration 1950s, a 15-year-old boy from Chicago goes to rural Mississippi for the summer and becomes involved in a fatal misunderstanding: the aftermath of that event is explored. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Cane more books like this by Jean Toomer add to wishlist Considered to be a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, a brief period during the 1920s, this book consists of sketches, poems and stories of rural and urban black African life that evoke images of smoke, sugar-cane, dusk and flame in the southern landscape, while the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.20! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Chicken Sunday more books like this by Patricia Polacco add to wishlist A young white girl named Patricia and her two best friends, a pair of African-American brothers named Stewart and Winston, perform a secret ceremony that makes them brothers and sister. After Patricia's grandmother dies, she adopts the boy's grandmother, Miss Eula, as her own. When the trio hears Miss Eula wishing for a beautiful hat to wear on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 more books like this by Juan Williams add to wishlist This compelling oral history of the first ten years of the Civil Rights movement is a tribute to the men and women, both black and white, who took part in the fight for justice and kept their eyes on the prize of freedom. Companion to the highly acclaimed PBS television series. 100 photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The autobiography of Malcolm X more books like this by Malcolm X add to wishlist From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct audience, the oppressed American blacks, he brought hope ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Mules and Men more books like this by Zora Neale Hurston add to wishlist Hurston's collection of black American songs, stories, and folklore has become a classic. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children more books like this by Gloria Ladson-Billings add to wishlist Education, like electricity, needs a conduit, a teacher, through which to transmit its power- i.e., the discovery and continuity of information, knowledge, wisdom, experience, and culture. Through the stories and experiences of eight successful teacher-transmitters, The Dreamkeepers keeps hope alive for educating young African Americans. -Reverend ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Come On, Rain more books like this by Karen Hesse, Jon J Muth (Illustrator), John Muth (Illustrator) add to wishlist A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Fire Next Time more books like this by James A Baldwin add to wishlist The Modern Library edition of the book that William Styron said shook the conscience of a nation. This is James Baldwin's call for activism "to end the racial nightmare... and change the history of the world." Includes the long essay/sermon "Down at the Cross", his commentary on the rise of the Nation of Islam in America, and an argument against ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Jazz more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist The unnamed omniscient narrator--like a Greek chorus, or a tribal storyteller--relates the story of Joe and Violet Trace, a pair of orphans who meet and marry in rural Virginia, then come north to Harlem in 1906. Trapped in their unfulfilling marriage for 20 years, Joe begins an affair with a young woman, Dorcas. When she leaves him, he kills her- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes more books like this by Langston Hughes, Professor Arnold Rampersad (Editor), David E Roessel (Editor) add to wishlist Hughes identified it as his mission as a writer "to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America." His poetry was heavily influenced by black oral tradition, jazz, and folklore, and he continually attempted to mirror the black experience, in all its diversity, in his work. see all copies from $6.50! new only from $12.03! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Cheaters more books like this by Eric Jerome Dickey add to wishlist This bestselling novel, called everything from provocative and steamy to fresh and honest by the critics, takes a dip into the Los Angeles singles scene for a totally uncensored and outrageously entertaining adventure in seduction, betrayal, heartbreak, revenge, and oh-so-sweet true love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change more books like this by Aldon D Morris add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $7.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. more books like this by Martin Luther King, Jr., James Washington (Editor) add to wishlist American civil rights leader and Nobel Prize recipient Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968) inspired and sustained the struggle for freedom, non-violence, racial integration and human brotherhood, and passionately defined the conscience of a nation by advocating social justice worldwide. Arranged chronologically, this is a collection of his public ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $14.32! \| SVS
24 view cover	Middle Passage more books like this by Charles R Johnson add to wishlist Rutherford Calhoun escapes marriage and debt by stowing away on the illegal slave ship, the "Republic." Discovered, he is then put in charge of the ship's log. Calhoun must confront his self-centered philosophies as he writes the log, adrift with a cargo of slaves and forty crew members in search of new lives. This novel won the 1990 National Book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Soul on Ice more books like this by Eldridge Cleaver add to wishlist Finally back in print, the prison memoirs of Black Panther activist Eldridge Cleaver that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the Black experience. "Brilliant and revealing".--New York Times Book Review. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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