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African-American History Books

Hole In The Head: A Life Revealed by Wilbert Smith, based on the award-winning documentary, is a compelling,...

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer...

In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and the Percilla-Augusta region of neighboring Houston...

Cowboys and Indians? Not hardly. The Cowboys, actually, came on the scene very late. The First Americans, as...

The Mis-Education of the Negro was originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. According to his...

Tony Browder’s From The Browder File: 22 Essays on the African American Experience is a compact but purposeful collection designed to provoke inquiry, self-reflection, and historical awareness. Covering African American history...

A celebrated classic, They Came Before Columbus, deals with a number of contacts — both planned and accidental,...

From Slavery to Freedom -first published in 1947 and continually updated with more than three million copies have...

Lerone Bennett Jr.’s Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America is a landmark work of popular history: expansive, assertive, and written to correct the profound exclusions of traditional United States narratives. Originally...

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