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243 Books in the HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Category

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I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution Reading Du Bois: An Afrocentric Critique of the Color Line Letter from Birmingham Jail King: A Life Soul of the Court: The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr. (Hardback) (Hardback) When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era Gordon Parks: Born Black: A Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt 1960-1970 W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era King: A Life W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation The Evidence of Things Not Seen Emma’s Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century I Have a Dream Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan We Are Worth Fighting for (paperback): A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 Seven Sisters And A Brother (paperback): Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985 The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America Run: Book One Watergate’s Forgotten Hero White Riot / Black Massacre: A Brief History of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice On Juneteenth The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity Black Power and the American Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White Hubert Harrison The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (Anniversary) Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography Of Ida B. Wells Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015 Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America We Are Worth Fighting for: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 Seven Sisters And A Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s W. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American History In the Country of Women: A Memoir Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II Impeachment: An American History Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side Arthur Ashe: A Life Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movement The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News Hidden Figures Illustrated The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America Across That Bridge Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press The Blood of Emmett Till The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution Black Power 50 Hidden Figures The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation Volume 42 Stokely: A Life The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond The Radical King (King Legacy) The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush Alex Haley: And The Books That Changed A Nation Negroland: A Memoir Civil Rights and the Promise of Equality (Double Exposure) Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920 Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn And Made America A Democracy Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory (2015) Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue) F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature 1919, The Year of Racial Violence The Loneliness Of The Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics And The Pursuit Of Power (Politics And Society In Twentieth-Century America) Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 Garvey and Garveyism Death Of A King: The Real Story Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem’s Most Famous Hotel Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) Postwar America: 1945-1971 SNCC: The New Abolitionists Twelve Years a Slave The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’S Dream Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America This Is The Day: The March On Washington How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009 And Bid Him Sing: A Biography Of Countee Cullen The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang The Works Of Alain Locke Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series) The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Carl Van Vechten And The Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait In Black And White Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times “All Labor Has Dignity” The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington The Photographs of Jack Delano: The Library of Congress Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The Great Truth about the Lost Cause Say It Loud: Great Speeches On Civil Rights And African American Identity Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (King Legacy) Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community? (King Legacy) Black Music Howard L. Bingham’s Black Panthers 1968 Ltd Ed (Limited) The End of Empires: African Americans and India The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States Revolutionary Suicide: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, And The Exploitation Of Black Urban America Negro With A Hat: The Rise And Fall Of Marcus Garvey Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party Alain L. Locke: The Biography Of A Philosopher Never Been A Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked The Civil Rights Movement Radio Golf (1990s Century Cycle) Two Trains Running (1960s Century Cycle) April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death And How It Changed America Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 August Wilson Century Cycle White Flight: Atlanta And The Making Of Modern Conservatism (Politics And Society In Twentieth-Century America) Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War Harlem Renaissance Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance Not in My Family: AIDS in the African-American Community United States v. George W. Bush et al. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America Gem of the Ocean (1900s Century Cycle) Chocolate Thoughts: Short Stories, Essays and Poetry from the Hearts and Minds of Real Black Men The Black Power Movement: Rethinking The Civil Rights-Black Power Era All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown V. Board of Education Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture Sundown Towns What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880 Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper Fighting for Us Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture) Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (American History and Culture) Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power Africana: Civil Rights: An A-to-Z Reference of the Movement that Changed America Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights Like A Mighty Stream Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 The Cruel Years: American Voices at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation My American Journey (Updated) The Twentieth Century: A People’s History The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Rh Trade Pbk) Reporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963 12 Million Black Voices You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train: A Personal History Of Our Times When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bill Clinton and Black America American Jihad Patterns of Negro Segregation From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980 A Hubert Harrison Reader Lo Que El Pueblo Me Dice: Cronicas De LA Colonia Puertorriquena En Nueva York (Spanish Edition) W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 Freedomways Reader: Prophets In Their Own Time King Hedley II (1980s Century Cycle) Renaissance in Harlem Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves In Search of Democracy: The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins (1920-1977) Always In Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Rights History (Revised) James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising And The 1960s When Harlem Was In Vogue Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68 Go And Tell Pharaoh Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays Malcolm X Speaks (Cloth) Burning at Stake in the United States