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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Pick!

In 1923, seventeen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia for Philadelphia, where, though her first two babies die because she can't afford medicine, she keeps nine children alive with old southern remedies and sheer love. Saddled with a husband who brings her nothing but disappointment, she prepares her children for a world she knows will not be kind to them. Their trials are the trials on which the history of America was forged, a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, and a force stronger than love or trouble: the determination to get by and get through. A searing portrait of an unforgettable family, an emotionally transfixing drama of human striving in the face of insurmountable adversity and a ferocious vision of humanity at its most threadbare and elemental, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie introduces a writer of the very first order.

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

International bestseller

The 5,000,000 copy bestseller of life in the black ghettos of America - written by a white man! This shocking book is a first hand account of the story of a man who underwent a series of medical treatments to change his skin colour temporarily to black. His purpose was to try and find out what it was like to be a black man in America.

Black Like Me

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Washington

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The New Jim Crow

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#paperback #history #jimcrow #africanamerican #mississippi #nonfiction #rural 

California

The Classic Autobiography of Growing up Poor and Black in the Rural South

Anne Moody provides a first person account of growing up black in the rural south during the nineteen forties and fifties.

Coming of Age in Mississippi

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New Jersey

A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education--with a new preface by the author Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.

Ohio

Black Southerners in Age of Jim Crow

"Leon F. Litwack constructs an account of life in the Jim Crow South. Drawing on an array of contemporary documents and first-person narratives from both blacks and whites, he examines how black men and women learned to live with the severe restrictions imposed on their lives during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." "Litwack relates how black schools and colleges struggled to fulfill the expectations placed on them in a climate that was separate but hardly equal; how hardworking tenant farmers were cheated of their earnings, turned off their land, or refused acreage they could afford to purchase; how successful and ambitious blacks often became targets of white violence and harassment. Faced with evidence of black independence and assertiveness, the white South responded with a policy of oppression and subjugation that systematically "disrecognized" black people." "Litwack shows how blacks not only coped with crushing poverty and misery, but also found refuge in their own institutions and managed to preserve their humanity and dignity through religion, work, music, and (frequently subversive) humor."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Trouble in Mind

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Presents an epic history that covers the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s, chronicling the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West through the stories of three individuals and their families.

The Warmth of Other Suns

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A true story of the Jim Crow South that involves two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother’s quest. #musebrothers #south #jimcrow #non-fiction #truevine #hardcover 

North Carolina

Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother¿s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? TRUEVINE is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.

Truevine

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Arkansas

African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South

Following the reissue of Remembering Slavery comes this landmark collection of interviews about African American life under segregation, with audio CD>

Remembering Jim Crow

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#paperback #classics #africanamericans #blackhistorymonth #requiredreading #jimcrow #bannedbook #readbannedbooks 

Missouri

A Record of Childhood and Youth

The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years

Black Boy (American Hunger)

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#paperback #history #jimcrow #africanamerican #blackliterature #mississippi #rural #nonfiction 

#paperback #jimcrow #history #massincarceration

Wisconsin

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

#black #blackstories #civilrights #jimcrow #blackhistory #history

Virginia

A Memoir of the Movement

The award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of the most important records of the American civil rights movement as told by a true American hero, John Lewis, who Cornel West called a “national treasure.” An eloquent and gripping first-hand account of the turbulent struggle for civil rights and the willingness and courage to change the course of history. Forty years ago, a teenaged boy named John Lewis stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. The ideals of nonviolence which guided that critical time of American history established him as one of the movement's most charismatic and courageous leaders. Lewis's leadership in the Nashville Movement—a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville using sit-in techniques based on the teachings of Gandhi—established him as one of the movement's defining figures and set the tone for the major civil rights campaigns of the 1960s. During this decade, he was repeatedly a victim of violence and intimidation, but his singular belief in non-violent action, inspired by his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, was a defining characteristic of his leadership and vision. In 1986, he ran and won a congressional seat in Georgia, and remains in office to this day. Walking with the Wind is the story of an American hero. A boy from rural Alabama whose journey led him to Washington, and whose vision and perseverance changed a nation.

Walking with the Wind

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A Novel

"Wise, riveting, and full of surprises, Anywhere You Run will keep you up past your bedtime and stay with you long after the book is closed." --Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country . . . but can they escape the secrets they left behind?

It's the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she's ever been in her life. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. But with the color of Violet's skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. With the help of her white beau, Violet escapes. But desperation and fear leads her to hide out in the small rural town of Chillicothe, Georgia, unaware that danger may be closer than she thinks.

Back in Jackson, Marigold, Violet's older sister, has dreams of attending law school. Working for the Mississippi Summer Project, she has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the Black vote. But Marigold is in a different kind of trouble: she's pregnant and unmarried. After news of the murder brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to flee Jackson too. She heads North seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. But has she made a terrible choice that threatens her life and that of her unborn child? 

Two sisters on the run--one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's a man hot on their trail. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him . . .

"Anywhere You Run had me hooked from the first page... It's a novel both tender and ferocious--an absolute stunner." --Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of November Road

Anywhere You Run

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Alabama

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

This tenth anniversary edition of the acclaimed and fearless graphic novel features enhanced toned art, an afterword by Mat Johnson, character sketches, and other additional material.

In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could "pass" among the white folks. They called this dangerous assignment going "incognegro."

Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, is sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay "incognegro" long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order to save his brother -- and himself. Suspenseful, unsettling and relevant, Incognegro is a tense graphic novel of shifting identities, forbidden passions, and secrets that run far deeper than skin color.

Incognegro: a Graphic Mystery (New Edition)

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Pennsylvania

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Ayana Mathis

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

John Howard Griffin (Epilogue by); Robert Bonazzi (Afterword by)

Black Like Me

Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow

Anne Moody

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow

Leon F. Litwack

Trouble in Mind

Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns

Beth Macy

Truevine

Raymond Gavins (Editor); Robert Korstad (Editor); Chafe H. William (Editor)

Remembering Jim Crow

Richard Wright; Jerry W. Ward (Introduction by)

Black Boy (American Hunger)

Anne Moody

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow

Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns

John Lewis; Michael D'Orso

Walking with the Wind

Wanda M. Morris

Anywhere You Run

Leon F. Litwack

Trouble in Mind

Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns

Mat Johnson; Warren Pleece (Illustrator)

Incognegro: a Graphic Mystery (New Edition)

Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns

Wanda M. Morris

Anywhere You Run

Wanda M. Morris

Anywhere You Run

Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns

Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow

Wanda M. Morris

Anywhere You Run