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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781785788604 | ISBN 10: 1785788604
** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 **
'Fast-paced but nuanced... impeccably researched... a much-needed book' The Guardian
''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you a ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629638324 | ISBN 10: 1629638323
In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: †... more
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£17.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788163231 | ISBN 10: 1788163230
At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. Their defeats were bitter, but their triumphs beca ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780745338651 | ISBN 10: 0745338658
In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their Black brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608467877 | ISBN 10: 1608467872
In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers’ contribution to the American labor movement.
"Organized Labor and the Black Worker… documents a very long history of trade union and white working-cla ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781445670195 | ISBN 10: 1445670194
In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his incendiary autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, arrived in Liverpool for the start of a near-two-year tour of Brita ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780143105992 | ISBN 10: 014310599x
A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century.
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive ant ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780393354423 | ISBN 10: 0393354423
Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass — orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America — was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Do ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780300227116 | ISBN 10: 0300227116
A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War.
Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as b ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781620971482 | ISBN 10: 1620971488
With a foreword by Khalil Gibran Muhammad.
The fully illustrated companion to a major exhibit at New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a sweeping fiftieth-anniversary retrospective of Black Power in America and around ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846973666 | ISBN 10: 184697366x
Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interra ... 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 (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745335322 | ISBN 10: 0745335322
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629631141 | ISBN 10: 1629631140
For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under Jim Crow segregation in the United States. Most young American ... 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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£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781925240702 | ISBN 10: 1925240703
Winner, Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction, United States, 2015
Shortlisted, National Book Award for Non-Fiction, United States, 2015Â
In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780252080791 | ISBN 10: 0252080793
The oral history of an American family from Africa to the twentieth century.
A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an hei ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300184624 | ISBN 10: 030018462x
First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave. It is inspired by the true story of Madison Washingto ... 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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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780143106821 | ISBN 10: 0143106821
In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic pr ... 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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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780957679252 | ISBN 10: 0957679254
They say I'm meddling in the foreign affairs of the United States Government. Now, that's too bad, 'cause I'm going to have to continue to meddle...
Paul Robeson is a world famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When over the yea ... more
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£35.95 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780813933245 | ISBN 10: 0813933242
Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six i ... more
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£18.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780801474316 | ISBN 10: 0801474310
Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s. The book's case studies of local movements in Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Se ... 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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£16.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099536079 | ISBN 10: 0099536072
Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.
With gripping, powerfully vivid story-te ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780285638570 | ISBN 10: 0285638572
The history-making classic about crossing the color line in the segregated South. In the Deep South of the 1950s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross t ... 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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£29.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780230545144 | ISBN 10: 0230545149
Since its original publication, this book has become widely known as one of the most crucial political and social histories of African Americans. This updated third edition analyzes the effects of such factors as black neo-conservatism, welfare ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781595582287 | ISBN 10: 1595582282
Nearly ten years ago, The New Press published Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers work ... 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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£28.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780521615266 | ISBN 10: 0521615267
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British an ... 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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£13.95 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780811732581 | ISBN 10: 0811732584
This book tells the story of the network that guided escaped slaves to freedom, its operation, its important figures, and its specific history in New York and New Jersey. It pinpoints major routes in the states, with maps and information for locating ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780828320849 | ISBN 10: 0828320845
The Rankin family helped to bring over 2000 slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Discover their world through the eyes of Adam, the oldest of the Rankin children. ... more
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£13.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780811731430 | ISBN 10: 081173143x
This book presents detailed maps that trace the routes runaway slaves followed. It explores the impact of geography, transportation, free blacks, and members of religious congregations on the Underground Railroad. Switala focuses on the escaped-slave ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780099285069 | ISBN 10: 0099285061
First published in 1945, Black Boy remains one of the most moving and shaming records ever written of life under a system only one step from slavery. At four years of age, the young Richard Wright set fire to his home in a moment of boredom; at ... more
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£12.50 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781556524479 | ISBN 10: 1556524471
The sensational story of how slavery survived into this century, and the brutal murders that changed Southern history.
The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves—and this was in 1921, 56 years af ... more
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£2.99 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780486287386 | ISBN 10: 0486287386
Born in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T.Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African-Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and cul ... 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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£21.99 paperback (1994) - ISBN 13: 9781565841208 | ISBN 10: 1565841204
A handsome new edition of an essential work by the groundbreaking historian of African American life in the nineteenth century.
Free at Last brings together some of the most remarkable correspondence ever written by Americans. These letter ... more
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