Black History

Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana

By Ronald L. Baker

Carry Me Home Birmingham, Alabamaï¿½The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

By Diane McWhorter

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

By David Levering Lewis

Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television

By Donald Bogle

Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement From 1830 to 1970

Voices in Our Blood

Freedom’s Children: The Passage from Emancipation to the Great Migration

By Velma Maia Thomas

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

By Martin Luther Bass

Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America

African Ceremonies

By Angela Fisher

In Search of Democracy: The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins 1920-1977

By Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson

The Cornel West Reader

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65

By Taylor Branch

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