• Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires

    “By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden FiguresBetween the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of industrious, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success.Mary Ellen Pleasant, used her Gold Rush wealth to further the cause of abolitionis... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0062437607
    • ASIN: 0062437607
    • ISBN: 0062437607
    • Manufacturer: Amistad

  • Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire

    The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence bore comparison to J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Here, for the first time, is the story of the life of this extraordinary pioneer, told by his niece and grandniece, the award-winning television journalist Carol Jenkins and her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines.Born at a time when the bitter le... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0345453484
    • ASIN: 0345453484
    • ISBN: 0345453484
    • Brand: Jenkins, Carol/ Hines, Elizabeth Gardner
    • Manufacturer: One World

  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Newsday • Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishab... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0399588191
    • ASIN: 0399588191
    • ISBN: 0399588191
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

  • Becoming

    An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world,... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B079ZYWJJ8
    • ASIN: B079ZYWJJ8
    • Manufacturer: Crown

  • Smart Money Moves for African-Americans


    • ASIN: 039952262X
    • ASIN: 039952262X
    • ISBN: 039952262X
    • Manufacturer: TarcherPerigee

  • 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia

    Since 1619, when Africans first came ashore in the swampy Chesapeake region of Virginia, there have been many individuals whose achievements or strength of character in the face of monumental hardships have called attention to the genius of the African American people. This book attempts to distill from many wonderful possibilities the 100 most outstanding examples of greatness. Pioneering scholar of African American Studies Molefi Kete Asante has used four criteria in his selection: the individual's significance in the general progress of African Americans toward full equality in the American... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1573929638
    • ASIN: 1573929638
    • ISBN: 1573929638
    • Brand: PROMETHEUS BOOKS
    • Manufacturer: Prometheus

  • Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis among African-Americans

    Through stories (including their own), interviews, and analysis of the most recent data available, Dr. Alvin Poussaint and journalist Amy Alexander offer a groundbreaking look at 'posttraumatic slavery syndrome,' the unique physical and emotional perils for black people that are the legacy of slavery and persistent racism. They examine the historical, cultural, and social factors that make many blacks reluctant to seek health care, and cite ways that everyone from the layperson to the health care provider can help.

    • ASIN: 0807009598
    • UPC: 046442009591
    • ASIN: 0807009598
    • ISBN: 0807009598
    • Brand: Brand: Beacon Press
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • The African Americans

    The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six-hour documentary of the same name. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent and the arrival of the first black conquistador, Juan Garrido, in Florida in 1513, through five centuries of remarkable historic events right up to Barack Obama’s second term as president, when the United States still remains deeply divided by race and class. The book explores these topics in even more deta... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00EA8UF2Q
    • ASIN: B00EA8UF2Q
    • Manufacturer: Smiley Books

  • Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: (An African American Heritage Book)

    The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. It is also the only of Douglass' autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American Presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield

    • ASIN: 160459232X
    • ASIN: 160459232X
    • ISBN: 160459232X
    • Brand: Douglass Frederick
    • Manufacturer: Wilder Publications

  • Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

    The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these pr... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0062363603
    • ASIN: 0062363603
    • ISBN: 0062363603
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

  • Brown Girl Dreaming

    Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA President Obama "O" Book Club pickRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, eac... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0147515823
    • ASIN: 0147515823
    • ISBN: 9780147515827
    • Brand: Puffin Books
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a leading spokesman for his people.In this, the first and most frequently read of his three autobiographies, Douglass provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic es... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0486284999
    • UPC: 800759284993
    • ASIN: 0486284999
    • ISBN: 9780486284996
    • Brand: Dover Publications
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • Heavy: An American Memoir

    *Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* *WINNER of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and FINALIST for the Kirkus Prize * In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collap... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1501125656
    • ASIN: 1501125656
    • ISBN: 1501125656
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR

    Starting a NASCAR team is hard work. Starting a NASCAR team as an African American is even harder. These are just a few of the lessons learned by Leonard T. Miller during his decade and a half of running an auto racing program. Fueled by more than the desire to win, Miller made it his goal to create opportunities for black drivers in the vastly white, Southern world of NASCAR. Racing While Black chronicles the travails of selling marketing plans to skeptics and scraping by on the thinnest of budgets, as well as the triumphs of speeding to victory and changing the way racing fans view skin colo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1583228969
    • ASIN: 1583228969
    • ISBN: 1583228969
    • Brand: Brand: Seven Stories Press
    • Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press

  • Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Evangelists

    In this thorough and detailed study, Richard Douglass-Chin examines collectively for the first time the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American women evangelists, along with their eighteenth-century forerunner "Belinda." By studying how black women evangelists employed dialogue created by socioeconomic conditions, the author shows how their writings form the groundwork for a contemporary womanist literature rooted in spirituality. Arguing that the writings have their own unique figurations and forms that develop and alter over time, Douglass-Chin claims that the changing black f... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0826213111
    • ASIN: 0826213111
    • ISBN: 0826213111
    • Manufacturer: University of Missouri

  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, an African American Heritage Book

    Up From Slavery An Autobiography An

    • UPC: 10042446
    • Rating: 4.077

  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, an African American Heritage Book

    Up From Slavery

    • UPC: 10147690
    • Rating: 4.077

  • Growing Up to Be Mayor : The True Story of Mayor Lee Brown, First African American Mayor of Houston

    "Growing Up To Be Mayor" is the inspiring true story of Dr. Lee P. Brown, the first African American Mayor of Houston. Born to migrant farm workers in rural Oklahoma, Lee's family is forced to

    • UPC: 53343580

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (an African American Heritage Book)

    James Weldon Johnson's landmark novel is an emotionally gripping and poignant look into race relations. The protagonist, a half-white half-black man of very light complexion, known only as an ex-colored man, makes a choice between

    • UPC: 10716974
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man : A Library of America Paperback Classic

    9781598531138

    • UPC: 15783898
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (an African American Heritage Book)

    The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (an African American Heritage

    • UPC: 10384621
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglas (an African American Heritage Book)

    Here in one omnibus edition are all three of Frederick Douglass' landmark autobiographies. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written. This classic did as much as

    • UPC: 10147697
    • Rating: 4.5

  • Still Running : The Autobiography of Kentucky's Nate Northington, the First African American Football Player in the Southeastern Confe

    Still Running

    • UPC: 53075780

  • 100 Best African American Poems, The

    Award-winning poet and writer Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary

    • UPC: 12337656
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - eBook

    The first fictional memoir ever written by a black person, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph

    • UPC: 792001469
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Malcolm X : The Documentary

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