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It's Not What You Think

 

The stories chronicled in these books show some of the vast range of experiences that encompass African-American History.

A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
Blight, David W.

Slavery and the making of America /
Horton, James Oliver.

Bound for Canaan : the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America /
Bordewich, Fergus M.

Creating Black Americans : African-American history and its meanings, 1619 to the present /
Painter, Nell Irvin.

Before the Mayflower : a history of black America /
Bennett, Lerone, 1928-

Mirror to America : the autobiography of John Hope Franklin /
Franklin, John Hope, 1915-

Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction /
Foner, Eric.

The birth of Black America : the first African Americans and the pursuit of freedom at Jamestown /
Hashaw, Tim, 1954-

From Jim Crow to civil rights : the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality /
Klarman, Michael J.

The promised land : the great Black migration and how it changed America /
Lemann, Nicholas.

All deliberate speed : reflections on the first half century of Brown v. Board of Education /
Ogletree, Charles J.

Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-63 /
Branch, Taylor.

Pillar of fire : America in the King years, 1963-65 /
Branch, Taylor.

At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68 /
Branch, Taylor.

We were there : voices of African American veterans, from World War II to the war in Iraq /

Sundown towns : a hidden dimension of American racism /
Loewen, James W.