Black History

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Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad 3.53 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,949 ratings
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The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War 3.55 avg rating — 571 ratings
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The Intuitionist
The Intuitionist 3.62 avg rating — 16,070 ratings
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Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present 4.45 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War 3.93 avg rating — 469 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,195 ratings
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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America 4.21 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi 4.28 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues 4.43 avg rating — 3,067 ratings
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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives 4.08 avg rating — 1,349 ratings
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The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor 4.16 avg rating — 1,203 ratings
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The White Boy Shuffle
The White Boy Shuffle 4.09 avg rating — 6,129 ratings
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Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers 4.37 avg rating — 184 ratings
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The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease 4.16 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,787 ratings
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 3.96 avg rating — 112,014 ratings
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Negroes with Guns
Negroes with Guns 4.51 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
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King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 4.05 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave 3.48 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Die Nigger Die!
Die Nigger Die! 4.35 avg rating — 713 ratings
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Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life (American Made Music Series)
Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life (American Made Music Series) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya 4.05 avg rating — 1,492 ratings
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America 4.33 avg rating — 454 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,306 ratings
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White Sand Black Beach: Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami s Virginia Key
White Sand Black Beach: Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami s Virginia Key 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,141 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,287 ratings
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Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums
Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Miseducation of the Negro
The Miseducation of the Negro 4.49 avg rating — 9,978 ratings
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Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality
Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South 4.14 avg rating — 549 ratings
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The Music of Black Americans: A History
The Music of Black Americans: A History 4.28 avg rating — 93 ratings
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America 4.13 avg rating — 2,017 ratings
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Annie Allen
Annie Allen 4.14 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Africana
Africana 4.51 avg rating — 61 ratings
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To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography 4.42 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings
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Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White 4.21 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 4.35 avg rating — 3,007 ratings
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Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black
Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black 4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 4.43 avg rating — 1,899 ratings
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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family 3.67 avg rating — 240 ratings
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The Sellout
The Sellout 3.75 avg rating — 73,389 ratings
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s 4.24 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Negroland
Negroland 3.62 avg rating — 7,832 ratings
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Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture
Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture 4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,753 ratings
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Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime
Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime 4.10 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America 4.16 avg rating — 945 ratings
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Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series)
Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series) 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power 4.13 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire 3.58 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Black Life in Old New Orleans
Black Life in Old New Orleans 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Black Panthers For Beginners
Black Panthers For Beginners
by: Herb Boyd
3.69 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America 4.44 avg rating — 2,817 ratings
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The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War
The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War 3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen 4.13 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War
Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War 4.15 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Just Before Jazz
Just Before Jazz 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties
Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life
Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism 4.03 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America 4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press 4.19 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music
Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War
Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Black Prophetic Fire
Black Prophetic Fire 4.15 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights
Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights 4.15 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History (1)
Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History (1) 4.07 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom 4.21 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement 3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings
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What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs
What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic (The Callaloo African Diaspora Series)
Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic (The Callaloo African Diaspora Series) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes 3.90 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar
Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar 3.94 avg rating — 186 ratings
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More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 4.06 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad'
Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad' 3.50 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy
Doin' the Charleston: Black Roots of American Popular Music & the Jenkins Orphanage Legacy 3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Rip it Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'n' Roll
Rip it Up: The Black Experience in Rock 'n' Roll 3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle 4.42 avg rating — 286 ratings
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America 4.24 avg rating — 781 ratings
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The Colored Cartoon: Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954
The Colored Cartoon: Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Black History of the White House
The Black History of the White House 4.16 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer's View of the Early Twentieth Century
Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer's View of the Early Twentieth Century 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People
The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People 4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence
The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films 4.22 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (Brown Thrasher Books)
Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present 4.18 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy
The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16)
Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16) 4.16 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940
Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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