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Roll, Jordan, Roll
The World the Slaves Made
Written by Eugene D. Genovese
Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1976
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-71652-7 (0-394-71652-3)
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-fiction
“The most profound, learned and detailed analysis of. . . slavery to appear since World War II. It covers an incredible range of topics and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. . . . Genovese’s great gift is... Read more >
The World the Slaves Made
Written by Eugene D. Genovese
Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1976
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-71652-7 (0-394-71652-3)
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-fiction
“The most profound, learned and detailed analysis of. . . slavery to appear since World War II. It covers an incredible range of topics and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. . . . Genovese’s great gift is... Read more >
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Stories of Scottsboro
Written by James Goodman
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 28, 1995
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76159-4 (0-679-76159-4)
To white Southerners, it was "a heinous and unspeakable crime" that flouted a taboo as old as slavery. To the Communist Party, which mounted the defense, the Scottsboro case was an ideal opportunity to unite issues of race and class. To jury after jury, the idea that nine black men had... Read more >
Written by James Goodman
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 28, 1995
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76159-4 (0-679-76159-4)
To white Southerners, it was "a heinous and unspeakable crime" that flouted a taboo as old as slavery. To the Communist Party, which mounted the defense, the Scottsboro case was an ideal opportunity to unite issues of race and class. To jury after jury, the idea that nine black men had... Read more >
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925
Written by Herbert G. Gutman
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 12, 1977
Price: $29.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-72451-5 (0-394-72451-8)
This exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery into the twentieth century "makes obsolete almost everything that has been written or said about the Black experience in the United States."--Charles E. Silberman
Contents
List of Charts
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Part One: The Birthpangs of a World
1. Send... Read more >
Written by Herbert G. Gutman
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 12, 1977
Price: $29.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-72451-5 (0-394-72451-8)
This exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery into the twentieth century "makes obsolete almost everything that has been written or said about the Black experience in the United States."--Charles E. Silberman
Contents
List of Charts
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Part One: The Birthpangs of a World
1. Send... Read more >
The Children
Written by David Halberstam
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-449-00439-5 (0-449-00439-2)
A New York Times notable book The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. Magisterial in scope, with a strong you-are-there... Read more >
Written by David Halberstam
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-449-00439-5 (0-449-00439-2)
A New York Times notable book The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. Magisterial in scope, with a strong you-are-there... Read more >
Black Power
Politics of Liberation in America
Written by Charles Hamilton and Kwame Ture
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 10, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74313-2 (0-679-74313-8)
When first written in 1967, this revolutionary work exposed systemic racism in America and offered a vital framework for racial reform by calling upon African-Americans "to unite, to recognize their heritage, [and] to build a sense of community [in order to] operate effectively from a bargaining position of strength in a... Read more >
Politics of Liberation in America
Written by Charles Hamilton and Kwame Ture
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 10, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74313-2 (0-679-74313-8)
When first written in 1967, this revolutionary work exposed systemic racism in America and offered a vital framework for racial reform by calling upon African-Americans "to unite, to recognize their heritage, [and] to build a sense of community [in order to] operate effectively from a bargaining position of strength in a... Read more >
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Voices of Freedom
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
Written by Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: February 1, 1991
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-35232-0 (0-553-35232-6)
Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle, weaving a fascinating narrative of the Civil Rights Movement told by the people who lived it.
“An excellent example of solid... Read more >
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
Written by Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: February 1, 1991
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-35232-0 (0-553-35232-6)
Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle, weaving a fascinating narrative of the Civil Rights Movement told by the people who lived it.
“An excellent example of solid... Read more >
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Reimagining Equality
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Written by Anita Hill
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-1443-1 (0-8070-1443-5)
Through the stories of remarkable African American women, including her own great-great-grandmother, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and Baltimore beauty-shop owner and housing-crisis survivor Anjanette Booker, Anita Hill demonstrates that the inclusive democracy our Constitution promises must be conceived with home in mind. From slavery to the Great Migration to the subprime mortgage... Read more >
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Written by Anita Hill
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-1443-1 (0-8070-1443-5)
Through the stories of remarkable African American women, including her own great-great-grandmother, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and Baltimore beauty-shop owner and housing-crisis survivor Anjanette Booker, Anita Hill demonstrates that the inclusive democracy our Constitution promises must be conceived with home in mind. From slavery to the Great Migration to the subprime mortgage... Read more >
Reimagining Equality
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Written by Anita Hill
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-1437-0 (0-8070-1437-0)
From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas in the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago, Anita Hill’s first book since the best-selling Speaking Truth to Power.
On the 20th anniversary of the historic Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, where she spoke out so courageously about workplace sexual harassment, Anita Hill... Read more >
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Written by Anita Hill
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-1437-0 (0-8070-1437-0)
From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas in the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago, Anita Hill’s first book since the best-selling Speaking Truth to Power.
On the 20th anniversary of the historic Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, where she spoke out so courageously about workplace sexual harassment, Anita Hill... Read more >
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A Shining Thread of Hope
Written by Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: January 5, 1999
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0111-6 (0-7679-0111-8)
A Shining Thread of Hope is the inspiring and largely unknown story of the black female experience in the United States, co-authored by a pioneer in African American and women's history and an award-winning writer on race and gender. Encompassing both the panoramic story of black women in America and the... Read more >
Written by Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: January 5, 1999
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0111-6 (0-7679-0111-8)
A Shining Thread of Hope is the inspiring and largely unknown story of the black female experience in the United States, co-authored by a pioneer in African American and women's history and an award-winning writer on race and gender. Encompassing both the panoramic story of black women in America and the... Read more >
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Shades of Glory
The Negro Leagues & the Story of African-American Baseball
Written by Lawrence D. Hogan
Foreword by Jules Tygiel
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-7922-5306-8 (0-7922-5306-X)
Celebrating African America's contribution to our great national pastime, this comprehensive, lively history combines vivid narrative, visual impact, and a unique statistical component, to recreate the excitement and passion of the Negro Leagues. Packed with stories, biographical essays, scores of archival photographs and other evocative artifacts, it is an important contribution... Read more >
The Negro Leagues & the Story of African-American Baseball
Written by Lawrence D. Hogan
Foreword by Jules Tygiel
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-7922-5306-8 (0-7922-5306-X)
Celebrating African America's contribution to our great national pastime, this comprehensive, lively history combines vivid narrative, visual impact, and a unique statistical component, to recreate the excitement and passion of the Negro Leagues. Packed with stories, biographical essays, scores of archival photographs and other evocative artifacts, it is an important contribution... Read more >
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Lady Sings the Blues the 50th Anniversary Edition
Written by Billie Holiday and William Dufty
Foreword by David Ritz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: July 25, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2386-6 (0-7679-2386-3)
LADY SINGS THE BLUES is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and... Read more >
Written by Billie Holiday and William Dufty
Foreword by David Ritz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: July 25, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2386-6 (0-7679-2386-3)
LADY SINGS THE BLUES is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and... Read more >
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On the Courthouse Lawn
Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Sherrilyn Ifill
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: December 1, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0988-8 (0-8070-0988-1)
Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill’s On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the little-known contemporary consequences, such as the marginalization... Read more >
Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Sherrilyn Ifill
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: December 1, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0988-8 (0-8070-0988-1)
Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill’s On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the little-known contemporary consequences, such as the marginalization... Read more >
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Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story
Written by Mat Johnson
Illustrated by Simone Gane
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-2160-7 (1-4012-2160-2)
In the days after Hurricane Katrina, two men travel to a devastated New Orleans to pull off the bank heist of a lifetime. Up against the clock and eluding armed competitors, the men find themselves in the middle of one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in American history. All around them... Read more >
Written by Mat Johnson
Illustrated by Simone Gane
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-2160-7 (1-4012-2160-2)
In the days after Hurricane Katrina, two men travel to a devastated New Orleans to pull off the bank heist of a lifetime. Up against the clock and eluding armed competitors, the men find themselves in the middle of one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in American history. All around them... Read more >
Saving Savannah
The City and the Civil War
Written by Jacqueline Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7816-5 (1-4000-7816-4)
In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prizewinning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. This is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and... Read more >
The City and the Civil War
Written by Jacqueline Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7816-5 (1-4000-7816-4)
In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prizewinning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. This is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and... Read more >
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Freedom Dreams
The Black Radical Imagination
Written by Robin D.G. Kelley
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 15, 2003
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0977-2 (0-8070-0977-6)
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African Diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the... Read more >
The Black Radical Imagination
Written by Robin D.G. Kelley
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 15, 2003
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0977-2 (0-8070-0977-6)
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African Diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the... Read more >
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Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!
Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America
Written by Robin D.G. Kelley
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 17, 1998
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0941-3 (0-8070-0941-5)
In this vibrant, thought-provoking book, Kelley, “the pre-eminent historian of black popular culture writing today” (Cornel West) shows how the multicolored urban working class is the solution to the ills of American cities. He undermines widespread misunderstandings of black culture and shows how they have contributed to the failure of social... Read more >
Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America
Written by Robin D.G. Kelley
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 17, 1998
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0941-3 (0-8070-0941-5)
In this vibrant, thought-provoking book, Kelley, “the pre-eminent historian of black popular culture writing today” (Cornel West) shows how the multicolored urban working class is the solution to the ills of American cities. He undermines widespread misunderstandings of black culture and shows how they have contributed to the failure of social... Read more >
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Nigger
The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71371-2 (0-375-71371-9)
It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the... Read more >
The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71371-2 (0-375-71371-9)
It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the... Read more >
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"All Labor Has Dignity"
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Michael K. Honey
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8602-5 (0-8070-8602-9)
An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice
Covering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King’s dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority... Read more >
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Michael K. Honey
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8602-5 (0-8070-8602-9)
An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice
Covering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King’s dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority... Read more >
"All Labor Has Dignity"
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Michael K. Honey
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8600-1 (0-8070-8600-2)
An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice.
People forget that Dr. King was every bit as committed to economic justice as he was to ending racial segregation. As we struggle with massive unemployment, a staggering racial wealth gap, and the near collapse... Read more >
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Michael K. Honey
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8600-1 (0-8070-8600-2)
An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice.
People forget that Dr. King was every bit as committed to economic justice as he was to ending racial segregation. As we struggle with massive unemployment, a staggering racial wealth gap, and the near collapse... Read more >
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MLK
A Celebration in Word and Image
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Bob Adelman
Introduction by Charles Johnson
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0316-9 (0-8070-0316-6)
A stunning collection of photographs of and quotations by Dr. King compiled by renowned photojournalist Bob Adelman.
A striking collection of twenty-nine black-and-white images combined with powerful quotations by Dr. King, MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image is a photo-biography of one of America’s greatest figures. Here we see King in... Read more >
A Celebration in Word and Image
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Bob Adelman
Introduction by Charles Johnson
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0316-9 (0-8070-0316-6)
A stunning collection of photographs of and quotations by Dr. King compiled by renowned photojournalist Bob Adelman.
A striking collection of twenty-nine black-and-white images combined with powerful quotations by Dr. King, MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image is a photo-biography of one of America’s greatest figures. Here we see King in... Read more >
Stride Toward Freedom
The Montgomery Story
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduction by Clayborne Carson
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 1, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0073-1 (0-8070-0073-6)
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as “the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of... Read more >
The Montgomery Story
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduction by Clayborne Carson
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 1, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0073-1 (0-8070-0073-6)
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as “the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of... Read more >
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Stride Toward Freedom
The Montgomery Story
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduction by Clayborne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 1, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0069-4 (0-8070-0069-8)
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as “the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of... Read more >
The Montgomery Story
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduction by Clayborne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 1, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0069-4 (0-8070-0069-8)
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as “the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of... Read more >
"Thou, Dear God"
Prayers That Open Hearts and Spirits
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Lewis V. Baldwin
Foreword by Reverend Dr. Julius R. Scruggs
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 29, 2011
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8603-2 (0-8070-8603-7)
“Thou, Dear God” is the first and only collection of sixty-eight prayers by Martin Luther King, Jr. Arranged thematically in six parts--with prayers for spiritual guidance, special occasions, times of adversity, times of trial, uncertain times, and social justice--Baptist minister and King scholar Lewis Baldwin introduces the book and each section... Read more >
Prayers That Open Hearts and Spirits
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Lewis V. Baldwin
Foreword by Reverend Dr. Julius R. Scruggs
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 29, 2011
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8603-2 (0-8070-8603-7)
“Thou, Dear God” is the first and only collection of sixty-eight prayers by Martin Luther King, Jr. Arranged thematically in six parts--with prayers for spiritual guidance, special occasions, times of adversity, times of trial, uncertain times, and social justice--Baptist minister and King scholar Lewis Baldwin introduces the book and each section... Read more >
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The Trumpet of Conscience
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0170-7 (0-8070-0170-8)
Selected as a 2011 University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries
•Rated O - Outstanding
MLK’s final statements on racism, poverty, war, and the civil rights movement.
In November and December 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Canadian Broadcasting Corporations’ Massey Lecture Series. The collection was immediately... Read more >
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0170-7 (0-8070-0170-8)
Selected as a 2011 University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries
•Rated O - Outstanding
MLK’s final statements on racism, poverty, war, and the civil rights movement.
In November and December 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Canadian Broadcasting Corporations’ Massey Lecture Series. The collection was immediately... Read more >
The Trumpet of Conscience
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0071-7 (0-8070-0071-X)
In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series. The collection was immediately released as a book under the title Conscience for Change, but after King’s assassination in 1968, it was republished as The Trumpet of Conscience.
The collection sums up his lasting creed... Read more >
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0071-7 (0-8070-0071-X)
In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series. The collection was immediately released as a book under the title Conscience for Change, but after King’s assassination in 1968, it was republished as The Trumpet of Conscience.
The collection sums up his lasting creed... Read more >
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