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Brothers In Arms: The Epic Story of the 761St Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes

By: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem; Walton, Anthony

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Broadway: 2004-05-04

Seller ID: B5-225w

ISBN: 0385503385

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has light wear aroun

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 veteran of the battalion. Working with acclaimed writer Anthony Walton, Abdul-Jabbar interviewed the surviving members of the battalion and their descendants to weave together a page-turning narrative based on their memories and stories, from basic training through the...
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Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement

By: Abernathy, Donzaleigh

Price: $54.95

Publisher: Crown: 2003-10-14

Seller ID: P4-8014ri

ISBN: 0609609149

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Ralph David Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. were inseparable and together helped to establish what would become the modern American Civil Rights Movement. They preached, marched, and were frequently jailed together. Donzaleigh Abernathy, Ralph's youngest daughter, has written Partners to History as a testament to the courage, strength, and endurance of these men who stirred a nation with their moral fortitude. She also pays tribute to the thousands of unsung heroes--the other partners to this history--who were foot soldiers in the endless struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. This ...
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O. J. Simpson's most memorable games

By: Baker, Jim

Price: $5.17

Publisher: Putnam: 1978-01-01

Seller ID: C4-607w

ISBN: 0399121080

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Dust jacket has some wear and tear. In mylar protective cover.
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65

By: Branch, Taylor

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1998-02-02

Seller ID: M9-623w

ISBN: 0684808196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has very light wear.

Volume two of a three volume history of the American civil rights movement, America in the King Years. This volume takes the reader from the assassination of President Kennedy and describes Martin Luther King's struggle to hold his movement together in the face of factionalism and violence.
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W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

By: David Levering Lewis

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co: 1993-10-01

Seller ID: N8-737w

ISBN: 0805026215

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has light wear aroun

Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices

By: Fishkin, Shelley Fisher

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1993-04-29

Seller ID: E6-131f

ISBN: 0195082141

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Ernest Hemingway asserted, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." Lionel Trilling said the novel was "not less than definitive in American literature." Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, language, and rhetorical traditions play a major role in the creation of his art.
In Was ...
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Roots

By: Haley, Alex

Price: $6.26

Publisher: Doubleday: 1976-09-17

Seller ID: N4-823

ISBN: 0385037872

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Book is in very good conditon. Dusty jacket in mylar protective cover has shelf wear and tear.
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Roots

By: Haley, Alex

Price: $69.99

Publisher: Doubleday: 1976-09-17

Seller ID: C6-601y

ISBN: 0385037872

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: First Edition. Signed.

Wisdom of the Ages: Extraordinary People Ages 19-90 (Essence)

By: Hinds, Patricia M.

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Time Inc. Home Entertainment: 2004-01-01

Seller ID: E3-70014s

ISBN: 1932273166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Book is like new. Cover has some Shelf wear
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963

By: Lewis, David Levering

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.: 2000-10-17

Seller ID: Q8-621w

ISBN: 0805025340

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has light wear. In m

The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize--winning biography that "The Washington Post" hailed as "an engrossing masterpiece"
Charismatic, singularly determined, and controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois was a historian, novelist, editor, sociologist, founder of the NAACP, advocate of women's rights, and the premier architect of the Civil Rights movement. His hypnotic voice thunders out of David Levering Lewis's monumental biography like a locomotive under full steam.
This second volume of what is already a classic work begins with the triumphal return from WWI of African American veterans to th...
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The Heart of a Woman (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Maya Angelou

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Random House: 1997-05-17

Seller ID: S1-731f

ISBN: 0375500723

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she lived in an almost black environment, and she is surprised at the obsession her new friends have with the white world around them. She stays for a while with John and Grace Killens and begins to read her writing at the Harlem Writers Guild. She continues to sing, most notably at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, but more and more she begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for their rightful ...
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Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela

By: Meer, Fatima

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1990-01-01

Seller ID: R1-5010f

ISBN: 0060161469

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Gifting inscription
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My American Journey: An Autobiography

By: Powell, Colin L.; Persico, Joseph E.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Random House: 1995-09-09

Seller ID: W5-102f

ISBN: 0679432965

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

"A GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY . . . AN ENDEARING AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK."
--The New York Times Book Review
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history--Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm--but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of country and ...
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