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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. In wrestling with the question of what a free life was, many young black women created forms of intimacy, indifferent to the dictates of respectability.

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

$17.95

Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies. This Very Short Introduction begins with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s and traces the development of American slavery until its abolition following the Civil War.

American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction

$11.95

The courage and accomplishments of the men and women in this collection of Knowledge Cards,from writer W. E. B. Du Bois and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, athlete Kenny Washington and musical giant Duke Ellington, have changed the world in ways they could not have predicted. 48 fact-filled cards .

Great African Americans Knowledge Cards

$12.95

Powerful and diverse, this unique collection of African American poetry spans three centuries of writing in America. Poets bare their souls, speak their minds, trace their roots, and proclaim their dreams in the thirty-six poems compiled here.

I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry

$9.99

Documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women in the nineteenth century. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices of African American women before, during, and after the Civil War.

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

$23.00

Oxford, Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham, Little Rock: some place names are unforgettably associated with the events bitter and brave that happened there. This deck of 48 cards visits the sites of broad fame or infamy, and briefly recounts their significance in African American history. Size: 3¼ x 4 in.

What Happened Here? African American History Knowledge Cards

$12.95

Meet 52 icons of color from the past and present in this celebration of inspirational achievement—a collection of stories about changemakers to encourage, inspire, and empower the next generation. Jamia Wilson has curated this range of black icons and the book is stylishly brought together with colorful illustrations.

Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present

$23.99

A Black Women's History of the United States

A Black Women's History of the United States

$16.00

An important book for all ages, Little Leaders educates and inspires as it relates true stories of forty trailblazing black women in American history. Illuminating text paired with irresistible illustrations bring to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history.

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

$16.99

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