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Life in Tanzania Today and Since the Sixties

By Ndembwike, John

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

By Manisha Sinha

The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender

By Joe William Trotter, Jr.

12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery

By Solomon Northup

Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968

By Steven F. Lawson, Charles M. Payne

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa 1815-1854

By Norman Etherington

A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804

By Laurent Dubois

Facing the Storm: Portraits of Black Lives in Rural South Africa

By Tim Keegan

Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

By National Museum of African American History and

Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century

By Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

Foxholes and Color Lines: Desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces

By Sherie Mershon (Carnegie Mellon University), Steven Schlossman (Department Head, Carnegie Mellon University)

The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Memoir

By Forna, Aminatta

Army Life in a Black Regiment

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Howard N. Meyer

Martin Luther King Jr

By Adam Fairclough

Muslim Societies in African History

By David Robinson (Michigan State University)

English History 1914-1945

By A. J. P. Taylor (late Professor of History and Fellow, late Professor of History and Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford)

Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development

By Gunther Schuller

Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy

By Eric Foner, Steven Hahn

In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990

By Quintard Taylor, Jr. (University of Washington, Seattle)

Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain

By Peter Fryer

Freedom Dreams (Twentieth Anniversary Edition): The Black Radical Imagination

By Kelley, Robin D.G.

Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

By Kelley, Robin D. G.

From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews

By Windsor, Rudolph R, Hagahn, EL

African State And Society In The 1990s: Cameroon's Political Crossroads

By Takougang, Joseph

Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

By Leah Penniman

Pioneers Of The Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives, 1772-1815

By Louis Gates, Henry

Black Leadership in America (Studies In Modern History)

By White, J.

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at

By Delmont, Matthew F.

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

By Blackmon, Douglas A