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The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk (Penguin Classics)

By Du Bois, W., Elbert, Monica, Gibson, Donald

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery

By Hirsch, Jerrold

All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in the Black Community Edition: Reprint

By Carol B. Stack

Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-colonial Kenya

By Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Black Panthers 1968

By Howard L. Bingham

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Taylor Branch

Life in Tanzania Today and Since the Sixties

By Ndembwike, John

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

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

Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy

By Eric Foner, Steven Hahn

Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development

By Gunther Schuller

English History 1914-1945

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

Muslim Societies in African History

By David Robinson (Michigan State University)

Martin Luther King Jr

By Adam Fairclough

Army Life in a Black Regiment

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Howard N. Meyer

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

By Forna, Aminatta

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

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

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

By Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

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

By National Museum of African American History and

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

By Tim Keegan

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

By Laurent Dubois

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

By Norman Etherington

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

By Margot Lee Shetterly

Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968

By Steven F. Lawson, Charles M. Payne

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

By Solomon Northup

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

By Joe William Trotter, Jr.

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

By Manisha Sinha

Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions

By Joseph Mensah

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By Lessing, Doris

A History of South Africa

By Welsh, Frank

Black Woman's Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction

By N. Rousseau