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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge Audiobook
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
byErica Armstrong DunbarRating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Audiobook
Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
byIbram X. KendiRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Audiobook
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
byHarriet A. WashingtonRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America Audiobook
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
byKhalil Gibran MuhammadRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia Audiobook
Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
byWoody HoltonRating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires Audiobook
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
byShomari WillsRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-american Culinary History in the Old South Audiobook
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-american Culinary History in the Old South
byFindawayRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cross and the Lynching Tree Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy Audiobook
Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
byEthan J. KytleRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/51919: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Juneteenth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America Audiobook
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
bySylvian A. DioufRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reconstruction: A Concise History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America Audiobook
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
byW. Caleb McDanielRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero Audiobook
Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
byCate LineberryRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots Audiobook
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
byMorgan JerkinsRating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation Audiobook
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
byDaina Ramey BerryRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty Audiobook
He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
byS. Jonathan BassRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments that Redeemed America Audiobook
Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments that Redeemed America
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The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880 Audiobook
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byDavid FisherRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States Audiobook
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byLaura F. EdwardsRating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America Audiobook
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byMarcus M. WitcherRating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiving the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation Audiobook
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byKris ManjapraRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpectacle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Promise and the Dream Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality Audiobook
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byRobert L. Woodson Sr.Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack American History For Dummies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDenmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial Audiobook
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byOne Day UniversityRating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSystemic Racism 101: A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The African American Soldier: A Two-Hundred Year History of African Americans in the U.S. Military Audiobook
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byRonnie GreeneRating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRighteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America Audiobook
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byGayle Jessup WhiteRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-Year History of Immigration Surges, Employer Bias, and Depression of Black Wealth Audiobook
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byRoy BeckRating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5History of the Black Man: An Authentic Collection of Historical Information on the Early Civilization of the Descendents of Ham the Son of Noah Audiobook
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bySolomon NorthupRating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDear Emmett Till: An Excerpt from Long Time Coming Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Comeback Season: My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players Audiobook
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byKaren L. CoxRating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Message To The People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From the Darkness Cometh the Light: Or, Struggles for Freedom Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWe Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement Audiobook
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byAkinyele Omowale UmojaRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men Audiobook
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byFred D. GrayRating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ida B. the Queen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People’s History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election Audiobook
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