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Dear Denise

Letters to the Sister I Never Knew

by Lisa McNair

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780817321352

Pub Date: September 2022

Format: Hardcover

Poignant, honest, and heartfelt letters to a sister who perished in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

Desert Rose

The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King

by Edythe Scott Bagley

Contributions by Joe Hilley

Afterword by Bernice King

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780817360429

Pub Date: December 2021

Format: Paperback

Details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education

The Blues Muse

Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry

by Emily Ruth Rutter

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817359942

Pub Date: June 2020

Format: Paperback

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artists

Chesnutt and Realism

A Study of the Novels

by Ryan Simmons

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817359966

Pub Date: May 2020

Format: Paperback

Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism

Doc

The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man

by Frank Adams and Burgin Mathews

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780817359591

Pub Date: December 2018

Format: Paperback

Autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank “Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama’s, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal adventure that parallels, in many ways, the story and spirit of jazz itself.

Constance Baker Motley

One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law

by Gary L. Ford

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817359331

Pub Date: July 2018

Format: Paperback

When the name Constance Baker Motley is mentioned, more often than not, the response is “Who was she?” or “What did she do?” The answer is multifaceted, complex, and inspiring.

To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down

Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987

by Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell

Foreword by Linda Kenney Miller

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817319892

Pub Date: July 2018

Format: Hardcover

An important historical account of Tuskegee University’s significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide

The Road South

Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders

by B. J. Hollars

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817319809

Pub Date: May 2018

Format: Hardcover

Revisits the inspiring and heroic stories of the Freedom Riders, through their own words

Doctrine and Race

African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars

by Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817359188

Pub Date: February 2018

Format: Paperback

Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.

Keep Your Airspeed Up

The Story of a Tuskegee Airman

by Harold H. Brown and Marsha S. Bordner

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817319588

Pub Date: August 2017

Format: Hardcover

Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary account.

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