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• African Founders

  How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

  Fischer, David Hackett, 1935-

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  In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Africatown

  America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

  Tabor, Nick,

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  In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Sirens

  the Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

  Hazzard, Kevin, 1977-

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  Up until 1968, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. That all changed with the Freedom House EMS in Pittsburgh, a group of Black men who became America's first paramedics and set the gold standard for emergency…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Wings

  Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky

  Smith, Sherri L.,

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  A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II.

• America's Black Capital

  How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy

  Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G.,

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  Atlanta is widely considered to be America's Black Mecca. It has a higher concentration of black millionaires, black-owned businesses, and HBCUs than any other city in the United States. African Americans are overrepresented in every strata of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art of Ruth E. Carter

  Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, From Do the Right Thing to Black Panther

  Carter, Ruth E., 1960-

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  The definitive, deluxe art book from costume design legend Ruth E. Carter. Ruth E. Carter is a living legend of costume design. For three decades, she has shaped the story of the Black experience on screenfrom the 80s streetwear of Do the Right…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Benjamin Banneker and Us

  Eleven Generations of An American Family

  Webster, Rachel Jamison, 1974-

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  A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Angels

  the Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis.

  Smilios, Maria,

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  During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Ball

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

  Runstedtler, Theresa,

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  Against the backdrop of ongoing massive resistance to racial desegregation and increasingly strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. The press and the public blamed young Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Folk

  the Roots of the Black Working Class

  Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973-

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  An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America through a stunning narrative centered on her forebears. There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment

  the Military Career of Charles Young

  Shellum, Brian G.

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  An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park superintendent, the first black U.S. military attaché, the first African American officer to command a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black TV

  Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television From Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond

  Butler, Bethonie,

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  The first of its kind, this illustrated gift book, written by veteran Washington Post TV reporter Bethonie Butler, is a comprehensive look at the rich history of groundbreaking— and often underappreciated— television shows with leading Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Women Taught Us

  An Intimate History of Black Feminism

  Jackson, Jenn M.,

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  Jenn M. Jackson has been known to bring deep historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Writers of the Founding Era, 1760-1800

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  For too long, African Americans have been left out of the story of the nation's founding, their voices absent from the memory and celebration of the creation of the American republic. Black Writers of the Founding Era--by far the richest and most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don't Let Them Bury My Story

  the Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words

  Ford Fletcher, Viola

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  Viola Ford Fletcher's memoir Don't Let Them Bury My Story vividly recounts the lasting impact of the Tulsa Massacre on her life. As the oldest survivor and last living witness of the tragic events that unfolded in 1921, she shares her testimony with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Invisible Generals

  Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals

  Melville, Doug,

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  In Invisible Generals, Melville shares his quest to rediscover his family's story across five generations, from post-Civil War America to modern day Asia and Europe. In life, the Davises were denied the recognition and compensation they'd earned,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kneeling Man

  My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  Seletzky, Leta McCollough,

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  In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Make Your Own History

  Timeless Truths From Black American Trailblazers

  Holland, Joseph H.,

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  One hundred and twenty Black leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs share their wisdom and experience across the centuries in Make Your Own History, an inspiring collection of exemplary Black voices— past and present, familiar and unsung— which have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts

  Stories and Recipes From Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

  Wilkinson, Crystal,

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  A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Tigerbelles

  Olympic Legends From Tennessee State

  Card, Aime Alley,

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  The epic story of the 1960 Tennessee State University all-Black women's track team, which found Olympic glory at the 1960 games in Rome.