Black History for White People

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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 3.83 avg rating — 10,183 ratings
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Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black 3.74 avg rating — 3,208 ratings
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South 4.29 avg rating — 4,919 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 — 2,019 ratings
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Black and British: A Forgotten History
Black and British: A Forgotten History 4.60 avg rating — 4,326 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,481 ratings
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap 4.47 avg rating — 2,300 ratings
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Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet
Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet 4.50 avg rating — 101 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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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power 4.47 avg rating — 3,602 ratings
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The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery 3.97 avg rating — 116 ratings
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The Black-White Test Score Gap
The Black-White Test Score Gap 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History 4.32 avg rating — 757 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Empire of Cotton: A Global History 3.89 avg rating — 3,595 ratings
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African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas
African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas 3.50 avg rating — 14 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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John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights
John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Black Art: A Cultural History (Second Edition)
Black Art: A Cultural History (Second Edition) 4.01 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Betrayal of the Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson
The Betrayal of the Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson 4.16 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series) 3.99 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
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Conjure Times: Black Magicians in America
Conjure Times: Black Magicians in America 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition 4.39 avg rating — 1,488 ratings
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The Untold History of Black Comic Books
The Untold History of Black Comic Books 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only 4.09 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
by: Herb Boyd
3.76 avg rating — 335 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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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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The Willie Lynch Letter And The Making of A Slave
The Willie Lynch Letter And The Making of A Slave 4.25 avg rating — 1,241 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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Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just 4.08 avg rating — 85 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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The Trouble They Seen: The Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans
The Trouble They Seen: The Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music
People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music 4.06 avg rating — 32 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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A story untold: Black men and women in Athens history
A story untold: Black men and women in Athens history 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics 4.22 avg rating — 858 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 — 417 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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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 Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson 4.04 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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The Negro's Civil War
The Negro's Civil War 4.22 avg rating — 176 ratings
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The Rev. J. W. Loguen As a Slave and As a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life
The Rev. J. W. Loguen As a Slave and As a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South
New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Stop on the Underground Railroad: Rev. J.W. Loguen & Syracuse
A Stop on the Underground Railroad: Rev. J.W. Loguen & Syracuse 4.33 avg rating — 3 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 Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave
The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave 4.01 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906
Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D.
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. 4.46 avg rating — 2,108 ratings
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The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865–1949
The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865–1949 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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My Brother's Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
My Brother's Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States 3.98 avg rating — 751 ratings
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality 4.49 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime 3.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire
Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire 4.22 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The New Negro
The New Negro 4.12 avg rating — 905 ratings
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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan 3.77 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America 4.15 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
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The African Genius
The African Genius 3.82 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies among the Georgia Coastal Negroes (Brown Thrasher Books)
Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies among the Georgia Coastal Negroes (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Reminiscences of Levi Coffin
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin 4.27 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Negro Folk Music, U.S.A.
Negro Folk Music, U.S.A. 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Black and White on Wall Street: The Untold Story of the Man Wrongly Accused of Bringing Down Kidder Peabody
Black and White on Wall Street: The Untold Story of the Man Wrongly Accused of Bringing Down Kidder Peabody 3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings
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I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro 4.47 avg rating — 7,328 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 Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion 4.05 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
by: Tim Wise
4.14 avg rating — 1,563 ratings
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke 4.03 avg rating — 310 ratings
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The Book of Negro Folklore
The Book of Negro Folklore 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia
Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980
Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 4.19 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives 4.62 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Racial Matters: The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972
Racial Matters: The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972 4.13 avg rating — 45 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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Black Women in White America: A Documentary History
Black Women in White America: A Documentary History 4.29 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality 4.44 avg rating — 712 ratings
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For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer 4.17 avg rating — 249 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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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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King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village 3.90 avg rating — 2,537 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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From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir
From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir 4.42 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Volume 2) (American Crossroads)
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Volume 2) (American Crossroads) 3.81 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 4.18 avg rating — 16,210 ratings
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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers 4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,189 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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Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows: 2 Volumes
Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows: 2 Volumes 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hitler's Black Victims
Hitler's Black Victims 3.88 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Blind Tom: The Post-Civil War Enslavement of a Black Musical Genius
Blind Tom: The Post-Civil War Enslavement of a Black Musical Genius 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now
by: Touré
3.85 avg rating — 963 ratings
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Just Before Jazz
Just Before Jazz 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) 3.71 avg rating — 14 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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