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Enrique's Journey
Written by Sonia Nazario
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $28.00
In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.
When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor to feed her children, leaves Honduras to work in... Read more >
Written by Sonia Nazario
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $28.00
In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.
When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor to feed her children, leaves Honduras to work in... Read more >
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La Travesia de Enrique
Written by Sonia Nazario
Translated by Ana V. Ras
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $17.00
En esta asombrosa historia real, la galardonada periodista Sonia Nazario relata la inolvidable odisea de un niño hondureño que enfrenta penurias y peligros para reunirse con su madre en los Estados Unidos.
Cuando Enrique tiene cinco años, su madre, Lourdes, se marcha de Honduras para trabajar en los Estados Unidos. Esto le... Read more >
Written by Sonia Nazario
Translated by Ana V. Ras
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $17.00
En esta asombrosa historia real, la galardonada periodista Sonia Nazario relata la inolvidable odisea de un niño hondureño que enfrenta penurias y peligros para reunirse con su madre en los Estados Unidos.
Cuando Enrique tiene cinco años, su madre, Lourdes, se marcha de Honduras para trabajar en los Estados Unidos. Esto le... Read more >
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Epic Journeys of Freedom
Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
Written by Cassandra Pybus
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can... Read more >
Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
Written by Cassandra Pybus
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Mixed
My Life in Black and White
Written by Angela Nissel
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2006
Price: $12.95
“Tell anyone who asks that you’re half-black and half-white, just like David Hasselhoff from Knight Rider.”–Angela’s mother
“Love has no color,” insist Angela Nissel’s parents, but does it have a clue? In this candid, funny, and poignant memoir, Angela recounts growing up biracial in Philadelphia–moving back and forth between black inner-city schools... Read more >
My Life in Black and White
Written by Angela Nissel
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2006
Price: $12.95
“Tell anyone who asks that you’re half-black and half-white, just like David Hasselhoff from Knight Rider.”–Angela’s mother
“Love has no color,” insist Angela Nissel’s parents, but does it have a clue? In this candid, funny, and poignant memoir, Angela recounts growing up biracial in Philadelphia–moving back and forth between black inner-city schools... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Uncle Tom or New Negro?
African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and UP FROM SLAVERY 100 Years Later
Written by Rebecca Carroll
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $27.00
On the ninetieth anniversary of Booker T. Washington’s death comes a passionate, provocative dialogue on his complicated legacy, including the complete text of his classic autobiography, Up from Slavery.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in 1858, yet roughly forty years later he had established the Tuskegee Institute. Befriended by a... Read more >
African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and UP FROM SLAVERY 100 Years Later
Written by Rebecca Carroll
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $27.00
On the ninetieth anniversary of Booker T. Washington’s death comes a passionate, provocative dialogue on his complicated legacy, including the complete text of his classic autobiography, Up from Slavery.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in 1858, yet roughly forty years later he had established the Tuskegee Institute. Befriended by a... Read more >
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Sleepaway School
Stories from a Boy's Life: A Memoir
Written by Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $13.95
Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mother—a common practice for unmarried women in mid-century America. Less common was that she returned six years later to reclaim her children. Rather than leading to a happy ending, though, this is... Read more >
Stories from a Boy's Life: A Memoir
Written by Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $13.95
Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mother—a common practice for unmarried women in mid-century America. Less common was that she returned six years later to reclaim her children. Rather than leading to a happy ending, though, this is... Read more >
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Unforgivable Blackness
The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $16.95
In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated — and the most reviled — African American of his age.
Jack Johnson battled his way out of obscurity and poverty in the Jim Crow South to win the title of heavyweight champion of the world. At... Read more >
The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $16.95
In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated — and the most reviled — African American of his age.
Jack Johnson battled his way out of obscurity and poverty in the Jim Crow South to win the title of heavyweight champion of the world. At... Read more >
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eBook.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Written by Maya Angelou
Read by Maya Angelou
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $11.48
Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Read by Maya Angelou
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $11.48
Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Voices in the Mirror
An Autobiography
Written by Gordon Parks
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $15.95
An Autobiography
Written by Gordon Parks
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $15.95
Alone after his mother’s death, homeless in a Minnesota winter, young Gordon struggled to stay in school, working at menial jobs and riding streetcars all night to escape the cold. Refusing to succumb to despair, he instead transformed his anger at poverty and racism into a creative force and went on...
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Native Sons
Written by James Baldwin and Sol Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2005
Price: $13.95
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin and Sol Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2005
Price: $13.95
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Brothers in Arms
The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes
Written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $14.95
A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers in Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II. Read more >
The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes
Written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $14.95
A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers in Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II. Read more >
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Blood Done Sign My Name
A True Story
Written by Timothy B. Tyson
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $14.99
“Daddy and Roger and ’em shot ’em a nigger.” Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a playmate, heralded a ?restorm that would forever transform the tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by... Read more >
A True Story
Written by Timothy B. Tyson
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $14.99
“Daddy and Roger and ’em shot ’em a nigger.” Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a playmate, heralded a ?restorm that would forever transform the tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by... Read more >
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Black Titan
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Written by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $16.00
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and... Read more >
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Written by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $16.00
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and... Read more >
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eBook.
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Migrations of the Heart
An Autobiography
Written by Marita Golden
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $15.00
In her classic memoir, distinguished author, television executive, and activist Marita Golden beautifully recounts an astounding journey to Africa and back.
Marita Golden was raised in Washington, D.C., by a mother who was a cleaning woman and a father who was taxi-driver. For all their struggles, with life and each other... Read more >
An Autobiography
Written by Marita Golden
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $15.00
In her classic memoir, distinguished author, television executive, and activist Marita Golden beautifully recounts an astounding journey to Africa and back.
Marita Golden was raised in Washington, D.C., by a mother who was a cleaning woman and a father who was taxi-driver. For all their struggles, with life and each other... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Bound for the Promised Land
Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
Written by Kate Clifford Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $16.00
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the nine decades since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman aside... Read more >
Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
Written by Kate Clifford Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $16.00
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the nine decades since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman aside... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Death of Innocence
The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Written by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $16.00
There are many heroes of the civil rights movement—men and women we can look to for inspiration. Each has a unique story, a path that led to a role as leader or activist. Death of Innocence is the heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring story of one such hero: Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother... Read more >
The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Written by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $16.00
There are many heroes of the civil rights movement—men and women we can look to for inspiration. Each has a unique story, a path that led to a role as leader or activist. Death of Innocence is the heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring story of one such hero: Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Warrior Woman
The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief
Written by JAMES ALEXANDER Thom and Dark Rain Thom
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $7.99
A bestselling master of historical fiction, James Alexander Thom has brought unforgettable Native American figures to life for millions of readers, powerfully dramatizing their fortitude, fearsomeness, and profound fates. Now he and his wife, Dark Rain, have created a magnificent portrait of an astonishing woman–one who led her people in war... Read more >
The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief
Written by JAMES ALEXANDER Thom and Dark Rain Thom
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $7.99
A bestselling master of historical fiction, James Alexander Thom has brought unforgettable Native American figures to life for millions of readers, powerfully dramatizing their fortitude, fearsomeness, and profound fates. Now he and his wife, Dark Rain, have created a magnificent portrait of an astonishing woman–one who led her people in war... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Queen
The Life and Music of Dinah Washington
Written by Nadine Cohodas
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $28.50
Queen is the landmark biography of the brief, intensely lived life and soulful music of the great Dinah Washington.
A gospel star at fifteen, she was discovered by jazz great Lionel Hampton at eighteen, and for the rest of her life was on the road, playing clubs, or singing in the... Read more >
The Life and Music of Dinah Washington
Written by Nadine Cohodas
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $28.50
Queen is the landmark biography of the brief, intensely lived life and soulful music of the great Dinah Washington.
A gospel star at fifteen, she was discovered by jazz great Lionel Hampton at eighteen, and for the rest of her life was on the road, playing clubs, or singing in the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
A Memoir
Written by E. Lynn Harris
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $13.95
“In many ways writing saved my life. It’s my hope that sharing my experience will give hope to others who are learning to deal with their “difference.” I want them to know they don’t have to live their lives in a permanent “don’t ask, don’t tell” existence. Truth is a powerful... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by E. Lynn Harris
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $13.95
“In many ways writing saved my life. It’s my hope that sharing my experience will give hope to others who are learning to deal with their “difference.” I want them to know they don’t have to live their lives in a permanent “don’t ask, don’t tell” existence. Truth is a powerful... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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Blood Done Sign My Name
A True Story
Written by Timothy B. Tyson
Read by Timothy B. Tyson
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $13.95
"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger."
Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by one of his playmates in the late spring of 1970, heralded a firestorm that would forever transform the small tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old black... Read more >
A True Story
Written by Timothy B. Tyson
Read by Timothy B. Tyson
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $13.95
"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger."
Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by one of his playmates in the late spring of 1970, heralded a firestorm that would forever transform the small tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old black... Read more >
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Her Dream of Dreams
The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker
Written by Beverly Lowry
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $15.00
Madam C. J. Walker is an American rags-to-riches icon. Born to former slaves in Louisiana in 1867, she went on to become a prominent African American businesswoman and the first female self-made millionaire in U.S. history. The story of her transformation from a laundress to a tremendously successful entrepreneur is both... Read more >
The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker
Written by Beverly Lowry
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $15.00
Madam C. J. Walker is an American rags-to-riches icon. Born to former slaves in Louisiana in 1867, she went on to become a prominent African American businesswoman and the first female self-made millionaire in U.S. history. The story of her transformation from a laundress to a tremendously successful entrepreneur is both... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Brothers in Arms
Written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton
Read by Peter Francis James
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 4, 2004
Price: $12.48
A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers in Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton
Read by Peter Francis James
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 4, 2004
Price: $12.48
A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers in Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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Brothers in Arms
THE EPIC STORY OF THE 761ST TANK BATTALION, WWII'S FORGOTTEN HEROES
Written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 4, 2004
Price: $11.99
A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, BROTHERS IN ARMS recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st “Black Panthers,” the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first learned about the battalion from family friend Leonard “Smitty” Smith, a... Read more >
THE EPIC STORY OF THE 761ST TANK BATTALION, WWII'S FORGOTTEN HEROES
Written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 4, 2004
Price: $11.99
A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, BROTHERS IN ARMS recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st “Black Panthers,” the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first learned about the battalion from family friend Leonard “Smitty” Smith, a... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly
The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
Written by Jennifer Fleischner
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $16.99
A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly.
“I consider you my best living friend,” Mary Lincoln wrote to Elizabeth Keckly in... Read more >
The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
Written by Jennifer Fleischner
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $16.99
A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly.
“I consider you my best living friend,” Mary Lincoln wrote to Elizabeth Keckly in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Blood Done Sign My Name
A True Story
Written by Timothy B. Tyson
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 9, 2004
Price: $19.95
"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger."
Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by one of his playmates in the late spring of 1970, heralded a firestorm that would forever transform the small tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old black... Read more >
A True Story
Written by Timothy B. Tyson
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 9, 2004
Price: $19.95
"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger."
Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by one of his playmates in the late spring of 1970, heralded a firestorm that would forever transform the small tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old black... Read more >
