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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008405359 | ISBN 10: 0008405352
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERÂ
‘A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history... Eye-opening, engrossing’
Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half Â
In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617204 | ISBN 10: 1911617206
Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.
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Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time — be ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473671003 | ISBN 10: 1473671000
The life story of Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and singular twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist.
"Coretta is more relevant today than ever... a female who takes responsibility for creating something bet ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141986678 | ISBN 10: 0141986670
The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary film.
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In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781612196169 | ISBN 10: 1612196160
As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it’s as ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781506703183 | ISBN 10: 1506703186
The story of boxing icon Muhammad Ali!
An original graphic novel celebrating the life of the glorious athlete who metamorphosed from Cassius Clay to become a three-time heavyweight boxing legend, activist, and provocateur: Muhammad Ali. Not ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745335056 | ISBN 10: 0745335055
On the 27th August, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortal words, "I Have a Dream", the life of another giant of the Civil Rights movement quietly drew to a close in Accr ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781934389898 | ISBN 10: 1934389897
A large swath of literature on the civil rights movement exists in the United States. Much of that literature focuses on the dramatic events of the African American resistance to Jim Crow and oppression from the mid 1950s through the early 1970s. Fre ... more
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£13.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300024982 | ISBN 10: 0300024983
"The work of David J. Garrow is more than a day-by-day account of how the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 came into being. It is also a skillful analysis of the dynamics of protest activity and more particularly of the ways in which successful pr ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358794 | ISBN 10: 0822358794
An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian Candomblé. Remn ... more
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£23.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358374 | ISBN 10: 0822358379
Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic foru ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780804792752 | ISBN 10: 0804792755
Well before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear weapons, African Americans were protesting the Bomb. Historians have generally ignored African Americans when studying the anti-nuclear movement, yet they were some of the first c ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780807033326 | ISBN 10: 0807033324
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement.
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This revised edition includes a new introduction by the author, who reflec ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781479886036 | ISBN 10: 1479886033
Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black Studies
Winner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature
In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300205107 | ISBN 10: 0300205104
First published in 1965, this is a unique text in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Robert Penn Warren interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists, and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Ma ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781137278937 | ISBN 10: 1137278935
On August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flocked to the nation’s capital for the March on Washington. That day Clayborne Carson, a 19-year-old black student from a working-class family in New Mexico who had hitched a ride to Washing ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780807086070 | ISBN 10: 080708607x
An unprecedented and timely collection that captures the global vision of Dr. King — in his own words.
Too many people continue to think of Dr. King only as "a southern civil rights leader" or "an American Gandhi," thus ignoring his impact o ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681312 | ISBN 10: 1781681317
In his heyday, Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the African-American singer was the voice of the people, both as a performer and as a polit ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781783560271 | ISBN 10: 1783560274
The night before the March on Washington in 1963 Martin Luther King asked his aides for advice about the next day's speech. "Don't use the lines about "I have a dream," Wyatt Walker told him "It's trite, it's cliché. You've used it too many times alr ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780300187922 | ISBN 10: 0300187920
The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white gir ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780230337558 | ISBN 10: 0230337554
"I have a dream."
When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781558616974 | ISBN 10: 1558616977
Florence Howe has led an audacious life: she created a freedom school during the civil rights movement, refused to bow to academic heavyweights who were opposed to sharing power with women, and founded a feminist publishing house at a time when books ... more
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£30.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781595581136 | ISBN 10: 1595581138
"Say it loud: I’m black and I’m proud!
"(From James Brown's 1969 anthem)
In 2005, The New Press published Say It Plain, the celebrated companion to the American RadioWorks® American Public Media documentary chronicling the great tradition ... more
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£20.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780521731577 | ISBN 10: 0521731577
Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X co ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780465002122 | ISBN 10: 0465002129
On April 4, 1968, at 6.01 pm, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King, the prophet for racial and economic justice in America, ended his final speech with the ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781556526497 | ISBN 10: 1556526490
In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements ... more
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£21.99 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781595581457 | ISBN 10: 1595581456
Black Fire, the celebrated first volume of Nelson Peery’s riveting autobiography, told the story of his childhood and teenage years during the Depression and his subsequent political awakening as a soldier in the all-black 93rd Infantry Division in W ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781595581266 | ISBN 10: 159558126x
'I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land!' - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Say It Plain is a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141032726 | ISBN 10: 0141032723
Malcolm X's blazing, legendary auto-biography, completed shortly before his assassination in 1965, depicts a remarkable life: a child born into rage and despair, who turned to street-hustling and cocaine in the Harlem ghetto, followed by prison, wher ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780684850047 | ISBN 10: 0684850044
Head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Honorary prime minister of the Black Panther Party. Bestselling author. Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) is an American legend, one whose work as a civil rights leader fundamentally altered the ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781844085064 | ISBN 10: 1844085066
It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage - son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781583224670 | ISBN 10: 158322467x
Beginning with his founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966, Huey P. Newton (1942-89) set the political stage for events that would place him and the Panthers at the forefront of the African-American liberation movement for the next twenty years. ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780349112985 | ISBN 10: 0349112983
Compiled from his own words, this history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King, Jr. - the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who rebelled against segregation; the dedicated young minister who constantly questionned the depths of his f ... more
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£14.99 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780862418373 | ISBN 10: 0862418372
On April 4th, 1968, a shot rang out in the Memphis sky bringing to a violent close the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King. The youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, King brought the Civil Rights message to the attention of the world. In ... more
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£18.99 paperback (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780822334934 | ISBN 10: 0822334933
The first in-depth analysis of the black feminist movement, Living for the Revolution fills in a crucial but overlooked chapter in African American, women’s, and social movement history. Through original oral history interviews with key activists and ... more
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£3.99 paperback (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780486280417 | ISBN 10: 0486280411
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1986) - ISBN 13: 9781844085040 | ISBN 10: 184408504x
Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, j ... more
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