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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 books in this booklist
£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911590590 | ISBN 10: 1911590596
On November 14, 1960, at the age of six, Ruby Bridges became the first black child to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans. Escorted by federal marshals past angry segregationist protesters, young Ruby attended William Frantz Elementary and e ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781501157929 | ISBN 10: 1501157922
From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world. Fueled b ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780062666154 | ISBN 10: 0062666150
Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire, Elle, Vogue, Nylon, The Millions, Refinery29, the Huffington Post, Book Riot, Bitch Media, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and Paperback Paris. From one of the fie ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781503943391 | ISBN 10: 1503943399
Runners’ vocabulary is full of acronyms like DNS for “Did Not Start” and DNF for “Did Not Finish,” but when Mirna Valerio stepped up to the starting line, she needed a new one: DNQ for “Did Not Quit.” Valerio has tied on her ru ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780143105992 | ISBN 10: 014310599x
A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive ant ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008201326 | ISBN 10: 0008201323
The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller Now a major motion picture. Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathemati ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358794 | ISBN 10: 0822358794
An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Hardings spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian Candombl. Remn ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780553818178 | ISBN 10: 0553818171
From beloved daughter to abused foster child to crack addict, this is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake Brown. Following her mothers death, Cupcake was just eleven years old when she entered the child welfare system. Moved f ... more
View book details£8.95 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780393976373 | ISBN 10: 0393976378
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. It tells the story of Harriet Jacobs's early life as a slave in North Carolina; her fugitive years in New York, Boston, and Rochester ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (1989) - ISBN 13: 9780717806676 | ISBN 10: 0717806677
Her own powerful story to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction, with a 1988 Introduction by the author. 416 pages. ... more
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