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  • 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project book cover
  • Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race book cover
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  • The Souls of Black Folk (AmazonClassics Edition) book cover
  • Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires book cover
  • Twelve Years a Slave (AmazonClassics Edition) book cover
  • The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family book cover
  • Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race book cover
  • The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism book cover
  • How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective book cover
  • The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap book cover
  • The Souls of Black Folk (Original Classic Edition) book cover
  • Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom book cover
  • Becoming: Now a Major Netflix Documentary book cover
  • Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present book cover
  • Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South book cover
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (AmazonClassics Edition) book cover
  • The 48 Laws of Black Empowerment book cover
  • Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality (LOA #303) (The Library of America) book cover
  • One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy book cover
  • The African Americans book cover
  • Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy book cover
  • The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism book cover
  • Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge book cover
  • The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities book cover
  • The Negro Christianized. An Essay to Excite and Assist that Good Work, the Instruction of Negro Servants in Christianity… book cover
  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" book cover
  • Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals book cover
  • Hellhound On His Trail book cover
  • Roots: The Enhanced Edition: The Saga of an American Family book cover
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (AmazonClassics Edition) book cover
  • Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow book cover
  • Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice book cover
  • My Vanishing Country: A Memoir book cover
  • Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics) book cover
  • Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All book cover
  • The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 book cover
  • Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul book cover
  • Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy book cover
  • The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War book cover
  • From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century book cover
  • The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 book cover
  • Revelations of a Slave Smuggler: being the autobiography of Capt. Rich'd Drake, an African trader for fifty years-from… book cover
  • Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (Non Series) book cover
  • Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir book cover
  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY Book 4) book cover
  • The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863) book cover
  • The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto book cover
  • Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America book cover
  • Light and Truth: Collected from the Bible and Ancient and Modern History, Containing the Universal History of the… book cover
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (Bedford Cultural Editions) book cover
  • The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches book cover
  • The Blood of Emmett Till book cover
  • Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War book cover
  • Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities book cover
  • James Baldwin: A Biography book cover
  • A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and… book cover
  • Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention book cover
  • The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. book cover
  • Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America book cover
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner (Bedford Series in History and Culture) book cover
  • America's First Freedom Rider: Elizabeth Jennings, Chester A. Arthur, and the Early Fight for Civil Rights book cover
  • The Last Voyage of the Clotilda, the True Story of the last Slave Ship Voyage (1914) book cover
  • The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919 book cover
  • Nigger: An Autobiography book cover
  • The Slave Ship: A Human History book cover
  • Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World book cover
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 book cover
  • The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools book cover
  • Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age book cover
  • A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY Book 5) book cover
  • Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies book cover
  • The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America book cover
  • The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition book cover
  • The Antiracist: How to Start the Conversation about Race and Take Action book cover
  • Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life book cover
  • Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete book cover
  • The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race book cover
  • The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers book cover
  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers book cover
  • Pre-Slavery Christianity: It Was Never The White Man’s Religion book cover
  • Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference book cover
  • A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier book cover
  • Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America book cover
  • The Souls of Black Folk book cover
  • Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry book cover
  • Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America) book cover
  • And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK book cover
  • Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment book cover
  • Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America book cover
  • Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (Justice, Power, and Politics) book cover
  • A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation book cover
  • Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy book cover
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Authors

Authors with:

11 authors with more than one book:

  • 4 - Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • 3 - David W. Blight
  • 2 - University Press
  • 2 - Margot Lee Shetterly
  • 2 - Ibram X. Kendi
  • 2 - Pete Souza
  • 2 - W. E. B. Du Bois
  • 2 - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • 2 - Dante Fortson
  • 2 - Frederick Law Olmsted
  • 2 - Dick Gregory

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  • REVISIONING HISTORY (Book 4, Book 5)

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