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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
DescriptionIn July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention together with an address this spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder this for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the ...
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ManufacturerCrown
Categories Blue Politics   African-American & Black   Congresses, Senates, & Legislative Bodies   Federal Government   General   Civil Rights   Leaders & Leadership   African-American Studies   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
Description"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger."

Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by one of his playmates in the late spring of 1970, heralded a firestorm this would forever convert the small tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.

On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old black veteran, walked into a ...
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ManufacturerCrown
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   African-American & Black   General   Women   1945 - Present   History   North Carolina   South   South Carolina   Civil Rights   America   African-American Studies   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
Description Utilizing special access to key government insiders, Shane Harris chronicles the rise of America's surveillance state over the past 25 years and highlights a dangerous paradox: Our government's strategy has made it harder to catch terrorists and easier to spy on the rest of us.

In 1983, Admiral John Poindexter, President Reagan's ...
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ManufacturerPenguin Press HC, The
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   1945 - Present   21st Century   Civil Rights & Liberties   Terrorism   Intelligence   General   Civil Rights   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
DescriptionIn this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon delivers to light one of the much shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” this thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War throughout the dawn of World War II.

Utilizing a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon unearths the lost ...
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ManufacturerAnchor
Categories United States   General AAS   Textbooks Trade-In   General   History   Civil Rights   Paperback   Printed Books  
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Description"A excellent book. Its dead altitude honesty, its passion, its exalted purpose will do it stand as a monument to the much painful truth."
THE NATION
This hardcover edition of the modern classic, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, is the outcome of a distinctive collaboration between Alex Haley and Malcolm X, whose voice and philosophy resonate from each ...
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ManufacturerBallantine Books
Categories General AAS   African-American & Black   General   Political   Malcolm X   Civil Rights & Liberties   Civil Rights   African-American Studies   Hardcover   Bargain Books   Printed Books  
Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death
DescriptionZoe Carter's busy life on the West Coast together with her husband and daughters takes an unexpected detour when her glamorous, independent-minded mother, Margaret, decides she wants to "end things." Tired of living together with Parkinson's disease, Margaret declares she is no longer willing to go where the illness is taking her. Unsure how -- or when -- she will ...
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Categories Memoirs   General   Grief & Bereavement   Suicide   Civil Rights   Euthanasia   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
DescriptionCompiled from his own words, this history-making autobiography IS Martin Luther King: the mild-mannered, inquisitive kid and student who rebelled against segregation; the dedicated young minister who continuously questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his wisdom; the loving husband and father who sought to balance his family's needs ...
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ManufacturerHachette Audio
Categories Biographies & Memoirs   United States   General   General AAS   African-American & Black   Religious   King, Martin Luther   Civil Rights & Liberties   Civil Rights   Books on CD   Abridged  
Dred Scott's Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America
Description

Judge Andrew Napolitano lays bare the twisted legal history of racism in America.

"All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator together with certain inalienable rights" wedded the American soul to the concept this liberty comes from our humanity, not from the government. But American governments legally suspended the free will ...

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ManufacturerThomas Nelson
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   History   General   Civil Rights   Legal History   Civil Rights & Liberties   Discrimination & Racism   America   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
Description“There have been glances inside the NSA before, but until now no one has published a comprehensive and detailed report on the agency . . . Mr. Bamford has emerged together with everything except the combination to the director’s safe.” –New York Times Book Review

Today’s National Safety Agency is the largest, much costly, and much ...
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ManufacturerRandom House Audio
Categories Nonfiction   21st Century   Civil Rights & Liberties   Intelligence   General   Civil Rights   Books on CD   Abridged  
The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom
DescriptionA non-lawyer’s guide to the worst Supreme Court decisions of the modern era

The Dirty Dozen takes on twelve Supreme Court cases this changed American history—and yet are not well known to much Americans.

Starting in the New Deal era, the Court has allowed breathtaking expansions of government power this significantly reduced ...
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ManufacturerSentinel HC
Categories General AAS   General   Courts   Conservatism   Civil Rights   Judicial Branch   Hardcover   Bargain Books   Printed Books  
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