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1) Slaves in the Family
Ball, Edward

Fararr, Straus and Giroux., 1998. Illustrated with photographs.. First Printing Thus.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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2) The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South
Ball, Edward

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Perennial Library, 2002. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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3) The Seventh Child : a Lucky Life
Baxter, Freddie Mae

Vintage, 1999. First Edition. First Printing.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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4) Black Ice
Cary, Lorene

Vintage Books, 1992. A Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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5) Soul on Ice
Cleaver, Eldridge

A Delta Book, 1968. The cover shows wear and the pages are yellowing somewhat.. Fifteenth Printing.. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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6) Post-Prison Writings and Speeches
Cleaver, Eldridge

New York: Vintage Books, 1969. The pages are starting to yellow.. No Statement of Edition.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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7) Eldridge Cleaver, Post-Prison Writings and Speeches
Cleaver, Eldridge

Random House, 1969. Edited and with an appraisal by Robert Scheer. The dust jacket has two shallow, closed tears and now has a mylar cover.. A Later Printing.. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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8) Soul on Ice
Cleaver, Eldridge

McGraw Hill Book Company, 1968. With an introduction by Maxwell Geismar. There is a small area (half an inch) of broken cloth on the bottom edge of the book. The dust jacket has shallow chipping with a one inch not quite closed tear and it now has a mylar cover.. Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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9) Silver Rights
Curry, Constance

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill., 1995. The dust jacket has a new removable mylar cover.. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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10) Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier
Dykstra, Robert R

Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Harvard Univ Pr, 1993. The dust jacket has a half inch closed tear at the bottom edge and now has a removable mylar cover.. First Edition. First Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.. more information

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11) Between God and Gangsta Rap; Bearing Witness to Black Culture
Dyson, Michael Eric

New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. The dust jacket has a mylar cover. The previous owners name is on the flyleaf. First Edition. First Printing.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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12) Lanterns. a Memoir of Mentors
Edelman, Marian Wright

Beacon Press, 1999. The dust jacket has a mylar cover.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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13) Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story
Evers, Charles; Szanton, Andrew

Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1997. The dust jacket has a new, removable mylar cover.. First Edition. First Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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14) Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970
Findlay, James F. Jr

Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr, 1993. The dust jacket has a new removable mylar cover.. First Edition. First Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". more information

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15) Afro-American History : Primary Sources. Shorter Edition
Frazier, Thomas R

Harcourt Brace, 1971. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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16) A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing
Griffin, Farah J. & Fish, Cheryl J. (editors)

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Beacon Press, 1998. The dust jacket has a new removable mylar cover.. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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17) The Timetables of African-American History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in African-American History
Harley, Sharon

Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Touchstone Books, 1996. There is a remainder mark on the bottom edge of this book.. First Printing Thus. Large Trade Paperback.. Very Good Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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18) Revelations: American History, American Myths
Huggins, Nathan Irvin;Huggins, Brenda Smith

Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr, 1995. The dust jacket has a new removable mylar cover.. First Edition. First Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.. more information

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19) Dust Tracks on a Road/an Autobiography
Hurston, Zora Neale

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Perennial, 1991. A Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 6¾" - 8¾". more information

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20) King
Johnston, William

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. This novel is based on the screenplay by Abby Mann. The dust jacket has shallow chipping and now has a mylar cover.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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21) Chain of Change. Struggles for Black Community Development
King, Mel

South End Press, 1981. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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22) Sojourner Truth. Antislavery Activist
Krass, Peter

Melrose Square Publishing Company., 1988. Illustrated Edition.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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23) W. E. B. Du Bois Vol. 1 : Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
Lewis, David Levering

Henry Holt & Company, 1993. The dust jacket has a new, removable mylar cover.. Book Club. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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24) Masks; Blackness, Race and the Imagination
Lively, Adam

Oxford University Press., 2000. The dust jacket has a mylar cover.. First Edition. First Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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25) Loving's Love: A Black American's Experience in Aviation
Loving, Neal V

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. The dust jacket hasa light fold mark to the front flap and now has a removable mylar cover.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". more information

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26) Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers
McKissack, Pat; McKissack, Patricia C.; McKissack, Fredrick Jr

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Scholastic, 1999. The dust jacket has a new, removable mylar cover.. A Later Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 6¾" - 8¾".. more information

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27) Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress
Miller, William Lee

Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996. The back of the dust jacket has a band of light 'damp' stain to a depth of one inch at the back bottom edge and now has a removable mylar cover. There is also a quarter inch round stain to the back end paper at the binding fold. The book is otherwise unmarked.. History Book Club. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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28) Malcolm X. By Any Means Necessary
Myers, Walter Dean

New York.: Scholastic Inc., 1993. Color from the jacket has faded a little on to the cover of the book.Illustrated with black and white photographs. The jacket is in Mylar.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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29) Black and White Sat Down Together. The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder
Ovington, Mary White

The Feminist Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing.. Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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30) Black and White Sat Down Together. The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder
Ovington, Mary White

The Feminist Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing.. Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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31) The Substance of Things Hoped for. a Memoir of African-American Faith
Proctor, Samuel DeWitt

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. The dust jacket has a remavable mylar cover.. First Edition. First Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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32) Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed ; Autobiography of Mr. And Mrs. L.P. Ray
Ray, Mr. And Mrs. L.P

The Free Methodist Publishing House, 1926. Introduction by Rev. C.E. McReynolds. Illustrated with photographs. " Copyright, 1926 by Mrs. Emma J. Ray " is on the copyright page with no other dates or printing references.The maroon cloth cover is lettered and illustrated in gilt. The cover has some small imperfections and is lightly rubbed at the top and bottom edges of the spine and at the corners. The pages are evely age toned and are not brittle.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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33) Denmark Vesey ; The Buried History of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led it
Robertson, David

Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999. The dust jacket has a new, removable mylar cover.. History Book Club. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 6¾" - 8¾". more information

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34) Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
Smith, Patricia;Johnson, Charles;Wgbh Series Research Team

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace & Cimpany, 1998. The dust jacket has a new removable mylar cover.. First Edition. First Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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35) Speak Out in Thunder Tones. Letters and Other Writings By Black Northerners, 1787 - 1865
Sterling, Dorothy (editor)

Da Capo Press., 1998. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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36) Ghosts of Mississippi
Vollers, Maryanne

Back Bay Books. Little Brown and Company., 1995. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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37) Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North
Wilson, Harriet E

Vintage Books, 1983. There are brief notes written on the flyleaf otherwise the book and text are unmarked.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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