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 | Huey: Spirit of the Panther
Huey P. Newton remains one of the most misunderstood political figures of the twentieth century. As cofounder and leader of the Black Panther Party for more than twenty years, Newton (1942-1989) was at the forefront of the radical political activis...
Manufacturer: Basic Books
| $8.85
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 | At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family's Journey toward Civil Rights
The Grant family is emblematic of many black middle-class and blue-collar people who, beginning at the turn of the twentieth century, went to school, paid their dues, and forced America to face its prejudices. Grant details how her family built a prospe...
Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
| $12.47 - $24.95
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 | Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50
Photographer Michael Cunningham (coauthor of Crowns) and author Connie Briscoe, a New York Times bestselling novelist, profile 50 women over the age of 50 who have been remarkably successful--whether in reaching the top of the corporate ladder, findi...
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
| $8.26
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 | Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award
Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as "Take the 'A' Train." Yet all his life...
Manufacturer: North Point Press
| $7.49
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 | Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews
Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest, and insightful books ever written about jazz. As a black musician himself, Arthur Taylor was able to ask his subjects hard questions about the role of black artists in a white society...
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
| $11.64 - $16.50
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 | Silver Rights (Harvest Book)
This “sure-to-be-classic account of 1960s desegregation” (Los Angeles Times) tells the inspiring story of the Carters, black Mississippi sharecroppers who sent their children to integrate an all-white school system. “Silver Rights is pure gold!”...
Manufacturer: Harvest/HBJ Book
| $4.00
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 | Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (yardbird) Parker
This work on Charlie "Bird" Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; his great appetites;...
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
| $8.89
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