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    Between slavery and freedom : free people of color in America from settlement to the Civil War
    Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
    The voting rights war : the NAACP and the ongoing struggle for justice
    Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice
    The civil rights movement
    The trials of Phillis Wheatley : America's first Black poet and her encounters with the Founding Fathers
    Women of the Harlem renaissance
    Ring out freedom! : the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of the civil rights movement
    Five days : the fiery reckoning of an American city
    Famous firsts of Black women
    Underserved women of color, voice, and resistance : claiming a seat at the table
    Racial battle fatigue in faculty : perspectives and lessons from higher education
    Invisible no more : police violence against black women and women of color
    Powerful days : the civil rights photography of Charles Moore
    Frederick Douglass
    Just pursuit : a black prosecutor's fight for fairness
    Zora Neale Hurston
    Defining moments in Black history
    Fannie Lou Hamer : America's freedom fighting woman
    Historic speeches of African Americans
    Langston Hughes : the man, his art, and his continuing influence
    Harriet Tubman : a life in American history
    Ida B. Wells-Barnett : crusader against lynching
    In the Black : a history of African Americans on Wall Street
    A colored woman in a white world
    Jesse Owens : a life in American history
    A shot in the moonlight : how a freed slave and a Confederate soldier fought for justice in the Jim Crow south

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    Upending the Ivory Tower : Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
    Ida B. The Queen : The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
    Madam C.J. Walker : The Making of an American Icon
    In Love and Struggle : The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
    Out of the Shadows : A Biographical History of African American Athletes
    Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010
    The Black Librarian in America : Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening
    Fight for Freedom : Black Resistance and Identity
    Freedom Farmers : Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
    Remaking Black Power : How Black Women Transformed an Era
    The Scholar and the Struggle : Lawrence Reddick's Crusade for Black History and Black Power