Black History

Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle

Mulatto America: At the Crossroads of Black and White Culture: A Social History

By Stephan Talty

Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad

By Ann Hagedorn

This Far By Faith: Stories From the African American Religious Experience

By Juan Williams

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

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

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