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Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined David F. Walker 9780593836118 Fiction Ten Speed Graphic Penguin Random House A thrilling graphic novel reimagining of The Adventures of Huckle...
My Jim: A Novel
My Jim: A Novel Nancy Rawles 9781400054008 Fiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House A deeply moving recasting of one of the most controversial characters in American literature, Huckleberry...
Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path
Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path Joseph Bruchac 9781584301660 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books From the day he was born, Jim Thorpe’s parents knew he was special. As the light shone on the road to t...
Love Hates Violence 2
Love Hates Violence 2 De’wayne Maris 9781947340374 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Jim Jim is in federal prison after performing a successful hit on a detective that was getting a little...
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners Margaret A. Burnham 9780393867855 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction ...
The Legacy of Jim Crow
The Legacy of Jim Crow Clarence A. Haynes 9780593385999 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House “A powerful series that fills in the cracks and illuminates the shadows of the past.” —Sherri L...
I Am Jim Henson
I Am Jim Henson Brad Meltzer 9780525428503 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times bestselling picture book biography serie...
Ghosts Of Jim Crow
Ghosts Of Jim Crow F. Michael Higginbotham 9780814737477 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press When America inaugurated its first African American president, in 2009, many won...
Who’s Jim Hines?
Who’s Jim Hines? Jean Alicia Elster 9780814334027 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Who’s Jim Hines? is a story based on real events about Douglas Ford Jr., a twelve-ye...
Jim Brown Out of Bounds
Jim Brown Out of Bounds Jim Brown 9780821728574 Nonfiction Zebra Kensington Publishing Corp. Jim Brown Out of Bounds
Jim Neighbors, Brenda Lee Pryce, and Betsy Wakefield Teter
Jim Neighbors, Brenda Lee Pryce, and Betsy Wakefield Teter MULTIPLE Learn about the writers, Jim Neighbors, Brenda Lee Pryce, and Betsy Wakefield Teter and their book. Dr. Jim Neighbors teaches ethni...
Black Forward: Marching Orders for the Fight Against Jim Crow 2.0
Black Forward: Marching Orders for the Fight Against Jim Crow 2.0 Roland S. Martin 9781538782316 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Black Forward is a hard-hitting investigation into what you c...
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South Jaha Nailah Avery 9781646142446 Nonfiction Levine Querido Levine Querido NYPL Best of the Year Best of the Best, Black C...
Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism
Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism Wanda Smalls Lloyd 9781588384072 Nonfiction NewSouth Books NewSouth Books Wanda Smalls Lloyd’s Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism―wit...
Jim Crow’s Last Stand (Paperback): Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
Jim Crow’s Last Stand (Paperback): Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana Thomas Aiello 9780807172377 Nonfiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press A remnant of the racist post-Recon...
Love Hates Violence 3
Love Hates Violence 3 De’wayne Maris 9781947340381 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Exavier is out of juvie and has witnessed his first murder. Feeling official, he gears up with Heath an...
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780525559535 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House A profound new rendering of the struggle by...
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness Donna Janell Bowman 9781620141489 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growin...
Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana Thomas Aiello 9780807158999 Nonfiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press The last remnant of the racist Redeemer agenda...
Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow
Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow Gerald Horne 9781583674468 Nonfiction Monthly Review Press Monthly Review Press The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightl...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Richard Wormser 9780312313241 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Between 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives...
Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer L. Morgan
Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer L. Morgan MULTIPLE Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer L. Morgan
Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper II, and Derrick P. Alridge
Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper II, and Derrick P. Alridge MULTIPLE Maurice J. Hobson is associate professor of Africana studies and historian at Georgia State University. Eddie R. ...
Jim Sheridan - Interview
Jim Sheridan - Interview Kam Williams Interview Dialogue with Irish Director on His First Black Flick Jim Sheridan: The Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Interview with Kam Williams Given the gangsta’ r...
James: A Novel
James: A Novel Percival Everett 9780385550369 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously ...
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum Antonia Hylton 9781538723692 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year ...
The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the Fbi’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the Fbi’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States Ward Leroy Churchill and Jim Vander Wall 9781574782158 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Pre...
Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips
Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips Jim Lawrence 9781950912063 Fiction ABLAZE ABLAZE The Friday Foster comic strip is the story of a former nightclub “camera bunny” turned photographer’s assistant ...
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly 9781635576597 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Press Bloomsbury Publishing Patsy Rembert at Tuskegee Patsy G...
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White William Sturkey 9780674248274 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize Benjamin L. Hooks...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympic
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher 97815011...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander 9781620971932 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way...
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Ruha Benjamin 9781509526406 Nonfiction Polity Press Polity Press Race After Technology is a brilliant, beautifully argued, engagingly wri...
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Tonya Bolden 9781338262049 Nonfiction Scholastic Nonfiction Scholastic Inc. This is a story about America during and...
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer L. Morgan 9780252081873 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Connexions i...
Opal's Jim Crow Blues - Research & Share Your Family History (Part 2)
Opal's Jim Crow Blues - Research & Share Your Family History (Part 2) Troy Johnson Article Today's blog post is by guest Cheryl Wills. Cheryl, a television news anchor and reporter, has extensively ...
Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era Marlon B. Ross 9780814775639 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Manning the Race explores how African American men...
Jim Daniels
Jim Daniels 0000000055106495 James Raymond Daniels, born 1956, is an American poet and writer from Detroit, Michigan. He currently resides in Pittsburgh with his wife, poet Kristin Kovacic, and their...
Jim Lawrence
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Ward Leroy Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
Ward Leroy Churchill and Jim Vander Wall MULTIPLE Sure, I'd be happy to help, but it seems you've forgotten to provide the author bio. Could you please provide the information?
Jim Brown
Jim Brown 0000000072514239 James Nathaniel Brown, born February 17, 1936, is a former American football player and actor. Renowned for his time as a fullback with the Cleveland Browns (1957-1965), he...
Kathryn M. Johnson
Kathryn M. Johnson NONE Compiler of “The Two Foot Shelf of Negro Literature” Kathryn Magnolia Johnson, born in the Jim Crow Era, was a champion for literacy, education, and social justice....
James Stewart
James Stewart 0000000121039797 Dr. James Stewart, a native of Cleveland & Professor Emeritus at Penn State University, is the President of ASALH’s Manasota Chapter. He held leadership roles in major ...
The No Excuse Guide to Success: No Matter What Your Boss—or Life—Throws at You
The No Excuse Guide to Success: No Matter What Your Boss—or Life—Throws at You Kam Williams Book Review “Life is not what you’ve been taught; it’s what you believe. It’s not ...
The Pinewoods Legacy: A Red Clay Story
The Pinewoods Legacy: A Red Clay Story Charles B. Fancher 9798228677029 Fiction Blackstone Publishing Blackstone Publishing In this powerful companion to his debut novel, Red Clay, Charles B. Fancher ...
The Scott Joplin Rag
The Scott Joplin Rag Jonah Winter 9780358410713 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins A testament to the power of creating beauty in the face of oppression, this stunning book is a stirring and insig...
James (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
James (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Percival Everett 9780593686867 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant, actio...
With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper II, and Derrick P. Alridge 9781469673196 Nonfiction University of North Caro...
Reformatory
Reformatory Tananarive Due 9781982188351 Fiction Gallery / Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. “You’re in for a treat…one of those books you can’t put down…Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King ...
North of Main: Spartanburg’s Historic Black Neighborhoods of North Dean Street, Gas Bottom, and Back of the College
North of Main: Spartanburg’s Historic Black Neighborhoods of North Dean Street, Gas Bottom, and Back of the College Jim Neighbors, Brenda Lee Pryce, and Betsy Wakefield Teter 9798885740401 Nonfiction ...
The Unicorn Woman
The Unicorn Woman Gayl Jones 9780807030035 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who r...
Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century
Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century Adrian Matejka 9781631495588 Fiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company On July 4, 1910, a significant boxing event un...
All Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story from the Great Migration
All Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story from the Great Migration Glenda Armand 9781338766899 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. This tender family story — inspired by the author’s own — illum...
Anywhere You Run
Anywhere You Run Wanda M. Morris 9780063271821 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after t...
Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book
Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz 9781523514281 Nonfiction Workman Publishing Workman Publishing Overwhelmed by racial injustice? Outraged by the news? Find yours...
The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American Fascism
The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American Fascism Gerald Horne 9780717800018 Nonfiction International Publishers International Publishers When Mexico moved to ...
Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Ward Leroy Churchill and Jim Vander Wall 9781574782172 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black...
Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South Wade Hudson 9780593126356 Nonfiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House As the fight for equal rights continues ,Defiant takes a critical look...
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney 9780060821203 Nonfiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney present a poignan...
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching Jarvis R. Givens 9780674983687 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press A fresh portrayal of one of the architect...
Mighty Justice: The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Mighty Justice: The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree Katie McCabe and Jabari Asim 9781250229007 Nonfiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers A young reader’s ada...
The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead 9780345804341 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Und...
Black Boy
Black Boy Richard Wright 9780062964137 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright’s powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John E...
The Nickel Boys: A Novel
The Nickel Boys: A Novel Colson Whitehead 9780385537070 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestsel...
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communisim vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communisim vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela Gerald Horne 9780717807635 Nonfiction International Publishers Internatio...
The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era Elizabeth Dowling Taylor 9780062346100 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of...
MARVEL’s Black Panther: The Junior Novel
MARVEL’s Black Panther: The Junior Novel Jim McCann 9780316413206 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group T’Challa, as the Black Panther and warrior King of Wakanda, must tea...
Hidden Figures Illustrated The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Hidden Figures Illustrated The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Margot Lee Shetterly 9780062798954 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperC...
Camille Alexander and the Golden Period Violin: includes the short story: Redemption (Volume 1)
Camille Alexander and the Golden Period Violin: includes the short story: Redemption (Volume 1) Sarah J. Heidelberg 9781545015407 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Cami has an Albatross hol...
The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland
The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland Damaris B. Hill 9780739197875 Nonfiction Lexington Books Lexington Books The essays in this collection examine i...
Who Was George Washington Carver?
Who Was George Washington Carver? Jim Gigliotti 9780448483122 Nonfiction Grosset & Dunlap Penguin Random House Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washingtoni Carver to succeed. Slaves were...
One Word from Sophia
One Word from Sophia Jim Averbeck 9781481405140 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Sophia tries varied techniques to get the giraffe she wants more than anything in this p...
Driving The King: A Novel
Driving The King: A Novel Ravi Howard 9780060529611 Fiction Harper HarperCollins A daring and brilliant novel that explores race and class in 1950s America, witnessed through the experiences of Nat Ki...
Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960
Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 Carol Anderson 9780521763783 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press Bourgeois Radicals explo...
The No Excuse Guide To Success: No Matter What Your Boss--Or Life--Throws At You
The No Excuse Guide To Success: No Matter What Your Boss--Or Life--Throws At You Jim Smith 9781601632128 Nonfiction Career Press Career Press
Ruth and the Green Book
Ruth and the Green Book Calvin Alexander Ramsey 9780761352556 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group About This Book Ruth was so excited to take a trip in her family’s new car! In the early ...
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews Volume 2
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews Volume 2 Historical Research Department of the Nation of Islam 9780963687739 Nonfiction Nation of Islam Nation of Islam Volume Two of The Secret Relatio...
Barack Obama And The Jim Crow Media: The Return Of The Nigger Breakers
Barack Obama And The Jim Crow Media: The Return Of The Nigger Breakers Ishmael Reed 9780981240572 Nonfiction Baraka Books Baraka Books Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Ba...
God And Race In American Politics: A Short History
God And Race In American Politics: A Short History Mark A. Noll 9780691146294 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press Religion has been a powerful political force througho...
The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South W. Ralph Eubanks 9780061375736 Nonfiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Ran...
The Rise of Jim Crow (Drama of African-American History)
The Rise of Jim Crow (Drama of African-American History) James Haskins 9780761426400 Nonfiction Cavendish Square Publishing Cavendish Square Publishing ”Provides a history of the decades of povery, op...
Life is a Game
Life is a Game Jim Copeland 9780981453279 Fiction Living Waters Publishing Company Living Waters Publishing Company Life is like a sea that must be navigated. There are bumps and sinkholes along the w...
Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me
Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me John Arthur Stokes 9781426301537 Nonfiction National Geographic Kids National Geographic Books John Stokes has waited more than 50 years to gi...
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It Jim Wallis 9780060558284 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro...
Charles S. Johnson: Leadership Beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow
Charles S. Johnson: Leadership Beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow Patrick J. Gilpin, Marybeth Gasman, and David Levering Lewis 9780791458976 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State Uni...
Under the Knife: How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South
Under the Knife: How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South Hugh Pearson 9780684846514 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press Just as he skillfully deconstructed the Black Panthers in h...
Black Boy
Black Boy Richard Wright 9780060929787 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins You’ll find Black Boy on President Obama’s Bookshelf This incredible bestselling classic is Richard Wright’s unfor...
Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race
Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race Jim Daniels 9780814325421 Poetry Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Letters to America features the work of poets who ha...
Ellen Labrecque
Ellen Labrecque NONE Ellen Labrecque is a renowned author and ex-Senior Editor for Sports Illustrated for Kids, credited with over 20 nonfiction books for children, including popular biographies of J...
James E. Clyburn
James E. Clyburn 0000000037363404 James “Jim” E. Clyburn is the congressman representing South Carolina’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he previously served ...