The African-American Experience


  • Ames, William C. The Negro Struggle For Equality In The Twentieth Century. D.C. Heath. 1965. Pages tanned otherwise Good . $2.85
  • Ames, William C. The Negro Struggle For Equality in the Twentieth Century (New Dimensions in American History Series). D.C.Heath. 1965. Cover slightly scuffed otherwise Good Plus. $2.84
  • Astor, Gerald. ". . . And a Credit to His Race": The Hard Life and Times of Joseph Louis Barrow, a.k.a. Joe Louis. Saturday Review Press. 1974 - 1st ed. Very Good. $16.75
  • Baker, Ray Stannard. Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship In The American Democracy (Illustrated). Corner House. 1973. Very Good. $17.25
  • Ball, Edward. Slaves In The Family (The story of oneman's exploration of his family's slave-owning past and his search for the descendants of the people his ancestors kept as slaves. Illustrated.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1998. Very Good. $16.25
  • Bassett, Angela and Vance, Courtney B. Friends: A Love Story. Kimani Press. 2007. Good Plus.This book was never read. ISBN: 0373830580. $4.85
  • Bell, Janet Cheatham. The Time and Place That Gave Me Life. Indiana University Press. 2007. Good Plus.This book was never read. ISBN: 9780253348777. $7.00
  • Bennett, Lerone. Before The Mayflower: A History Of the Negro In America 1619-1966 (Third Edition). Johnson Publishing. 1966. Ex-school edition. Stain on outter edge of pg spine otherwise mreading copy. $8.00
  • Billington, Monroe Lee. The Political South in the Twentieth Century. Charles Scribner. 1975. Very Good. This book was never read. ISBN: 0684139839. $3.57
  • Blumberg, Rhoda Goldstein. Interracial Bonds. General Hall, Inc. 1979. Very Good. $7.00
  • Bradford, Amory. Oakland's Not for Burning. David McKay. 1968. Very Good. $15.25
  • Bradford, Roark. John Henry (Woodcuts by J.J. Lankes). The Literary Guild. 1931 - 1st ed. Name stamped on front leaf otherwise Very Good. $16.25
  • Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963. Simon and Schuster. 1988. Pages slightly yellowed otherwise good plus. ISBN: 0-671-46097-8. $18.25
  • Brown, Claude. Manchild In the Promised Land. Macmillan. 1965. Very Good. $14.00
  • Brown, Turner. Black Is (Illustrations by Ann Weisman, A poignant examination of racist stereotypes_. Grove Press. 1961. Top right corner of approximately 5 pages is creased otherwise Good Pluss. $8.00
  • Carroll, Joseph Cephas. Slave Insurrections In The United States 1800-1865. New American Library. 1969 reprint of 1938 edition. Front Cover is Missing otherwise Reading Copy. $6.00
  • Clarke, John Henrik. American Negro Short Stories. Hill and Wang. 1968. Good. $7.00
  • Clavir, Judi., ed. and John Spitzer. The Conspiracy Trial (The extended edited transcript of the trial of the Chicago Eight complete with motions, rulings, contempt citations, sentences and photographs). Bobbs-Merrill. 1970. Very Good. $37.75
  • Cleaver, Eldridge. Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Writings and Speeches (ed. With an appraisal by Robert Schher). Jonathan Cape-London. 1969. Very Good. $19.00
  • Cohen, David W., ed. Neither Slave Nor Free: The Freedmen of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1972. As New. $16.00
  • Cohen, Robert Carl. Black Crusader: A Biography of Robert Franklin Williams. Lyle Stuart. 1972. Very Good. $25.75
  • Coles, Robert. Farewell to the South. Atlantic Monthly Press. 1972. Very Good. $14.00
  • Conant, Ralph W. The Prospects For Revolution: A Study of Riots, Civil Disobedience, and Insurrection in Contemporary America. Harper's Magazine Press. 1971. (Small triangular piece missing from top right corner of front end page otherwise Very Good. $16.00
  • Davie, Maurice R. Negroes In American Society. McGraw-Hill. 1949. Good reading copy but most pages have unerlining. $7.00
  • de Huszar, George, B. Anatomy of Racial Intolerance. H.W. Wilson. 1946. Cover scuffed otherwise Good. $13.25
  • Delany, Sarah and A. Elizabeth. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Kodansha International. 1993. Very Good. $14.75
  • Edelman, Marian Wright. The Measure of Our Success: A Letter To My Children and Yours. Beacon Press. 1992. Very Good. $15.00
  • Edelman, Marian Wright. The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours. Beacon Press. 1992. Seven pages have slight underlining otherwise Good Plus. $10.50
  • Editors of Ebony. The White Problem in America. Johnson Publishing. 1966. Very Good. $15.75
  • Edsall, Thomas Burne and Mary D. Edsall. Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights and Taxes on American Politics. W.W. Norton. 1991. Very Good. $16.75
  • Emanuel, James A. and Theodore L. Gross. Dark Symphony: Negro Literature In America. The Free Press. 1969. Extensive highlighting, some margin notes in ink. $7.00
  • Filler, Louis, ed. Wendell Phillips: On Civil Rights and Freedom. Hill & Wang. 1965. Good. $7.00
  • Foner, Eric. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and its Legacy. Louisianna State University Press. 1983. Minor margin marks otherwise Good Reading Copy. ISBN: 0-8071-1189-9. $6.25
  • Frunas, J.C. Goodbye to Uncle Tom (An analysis of the myths pertaining to the American Negro, from their origins to the misconceptions of today). Apollo. 1956. Good. $7.00
  • Fuller, Edmund. A Star Pointed North (The story of Frederick Douglass who rose from slavery to become a great leader of Negro Americans and a power in the Abolitionist Movement). Perennial Library. 1965. Pages tanned otherwise good. $4.86
  • Furnas, J. Goodbye to Uncle Tom (An analysis to the myths pertaining to the American Negro, from their origins to the misconceptions of today). William Sloane Associates. 1956. Cover slightly scuffed otherwise Good Plus.This book was never read. $2.00
  • Furnas, J.C. Goodbye to Uncle Tom (An analysis of the myths pertaining to the American Negro, from their origins to the misconceptions of today). William Sloane Associates. 1956. Front Cover slightly bent otherwise good plus. $10.00
  • Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman. Bantam Books. 1972. Pages slightly tanned otherwise Good Reading Copy. ISBN: 0553263579. $1.00
  • Gates, Henry Louis and Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks (Editors). African American Lives. Oxford University Press. 2004. The page that faces title page has triangular piece missing from left side. Corner up to center if page otherwise Good Plus. ISBN: 019516024X. $9.00
  • Gould, William B. Black Workers In White Unions: Job Discrimination in the United States. Cornell University Press. 1977. Very Good. $17.25
  • Greene, Melissa Fay. Praying For Sheetrock (The beautiful and compelling story of a small Southern town's awakening to civil rights and the courageous black man who led the call.). Fawcett Columbine. 1991. Pages slightly yellowed otherwise Good Plus. ISBN: 0-449-90753-8. $6.00
  • Gregory, Dick. What's Happening? (A Pictorial-Humorous Account). E.P. Dutton. 1965. Good. $7.00
  • Guinier, Lani. Lift Every Voice: Turning A Civil Rights Setback Into A New Vision of Social Justice. Simon & Schuster. 1998. Very Good. $14.00
  • Haley, Alex. Roots. Doubleday. 1976. Good with tattered dust jacket. $9.25
  • Hamilton, Charles V. The Black Experience In American Politics. G.P. Putnam. 1973. Very Good. $16.75
  • Haynes, Robert V. Blacks In White America Before 1865: Issues and Interpretations. David McKay. 1972. Very Good. $9.50
  • Hermann, Janet Sharp. The Pursuit of a Dream (This story of two families, one white, one black, spans one hundred years and three generations. It is interwined with southern history from slavery to World War I. Its central characters are Joseph Davis older brother of Jefferson Davis and Benjamin Montgomery, his slave and intellectual heir, who ultimately established on the former Davis lands an all-black utopian community). Oxford University Press. 1981. Very Good . ISBN: 0-19-502887-2. $24.25
  • Hodgson, J.D. Black Americans: A Chartbook (U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin 1699. Profusely illustrated). G.P.O. 1971. Papercovers are slightly scuffed otherwise Good Plus. $8.00
  • Hornsby, Alton, ed. In the Cage: Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro Southern Society, 1877-1928. Quadangle Books. 1971. Very Good. $16.50
  • Ianniello, Lynne, ed. Milestones Along The March: Twelve Historic Civil Rights Documents-From World War II to Selma. Pall Mall Press (London). 1965. Pages slightly tanned otherwise Good Plus. This book was Never Read. $4.25
  • Isaacs, Harold R. The New World of Negro Americans. John Day. 1963. Good reading copy-front cover has 750 written on outside. $8.75
  • Jackson, Rev. Jesse. Legal Lynching: Racism, Injustice and the Death Penalty. Marlowe and Company. 1996. Very Good. $12.75
  • Joans, Ted. Black Pow-Wow:Jazz Poems. Hill & Wang. 1969. Very Good. $10.00
  • Jones, Le Roi. Home: Social Essays. Apollo. 1968. Good. $5.90
  • Jones, LeRoi. Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music That Developed From It. Apollo Editions. 1966 reprint of 1963 ed. Cover slightly scuffed otherwise good plus. This book was never read. $5.50
  • Killian, Lewis & Charles Grigg. Racial Crisis in America: Leadership in Conflict. Prentice Hall. 1964. Pg. 89 torn with piece missing otherwise Good Reading Copy. $7.00
  • Kinshasa, Kwando M. Emigration vs. Assimilation: The Debate in the African American Press, 1827-1861. McFarland & Co. 1988. Very Good. $18.25
  • Klotman, Phyllis Rauch, ed. Humanities Through the Black Experience. Kendall/Hunt. 1977. Very Good. $11.00
  • Ladd, Jerrold. Out of the Madness: From the Projects To A Life of Hope (Afro-American journalist. Introduction by Mark Mathabane, author of Kaffir Boy.). Warner Books. 1994. Very Good. $15.75
  • Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. Alfred A. Knopf. 1991. Good Plus. ISBN: 0-394-56004-3. $18.75
  • Litwack, Leon F. North of Slavery: The Negro In The Free States 1790-1860. Phoenix Books-University of Chicago. 1961. Paperback-Very Good. $8.75
  • Logan, Rayford W., ed. W.E.B. Du Bois: A Profile. Hill & Wang. 1971. As New. $9.25
  • Lord, Walter. The Past That Would Not Die (Account of Riot When James Meredith Enrolled in Univ. of Mississippi and Historical Background). Hamish Hamilton (London). 1966. As New. $17.25
  • Mack, Raymond W., ed. Prejudice and Race Relations. Quadrangle Books. 1970. Good. $7.00
  • Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1989. Inside front cover and front end page have a slight stain at bottom otherwise Good Plus with dust jacket. $16.50
  • Mathews, Donald G., ed. Agitation for Freedom: The Abolitionist Movement. John Wiley & Sons. 1972. Very Good. This book was never read. ISBN: 0471576247. $2.15
  • McEvoy, James and Miller, Abraham. Black Power and Student Rebellion (Conflict on the American Campus). Wadsworth Publishing Company. 1969. Page edges slightly yellowed otherwise good plus. $14.00
  • McFadden, Elizabeth. Great Negro Americans of the Post...and Their Contributions to New Jersey and the Nation (Reprinted from a series of articles in the Newark News). The Newark News. Circa 1965. Papercovers and the pages are slightly tanned slightly creased otherwise Good. $8.00
  • McFadden, Robert D., Ralph Blumenthal M.A. Farber, E.R. Shipp, Charles Strum. Outrage: The Story Behind The Tawana Brawley Hoax. Bantam Books. 1990. Good Plus. $15.00
  • McPherson, James M., et.al. Blacks in America: Bibliographical Essays. Doubleday & Co. 1971. Very Good. $16.00
  • McWhorter, John. Winning The Race: Beyond The Crisis In Black America. Gotham Books. 2005. Good . ISBN: 9781592402700. $1.75
  • Meier, August, et.al. From Plantation to Ghetto: An Interpretive History of American Negroes. Constable (London). 1970. Very Good. $17.00
  • Meister, Richard J. (Editor). The Black Ghetto: Promised Land Or Colony. D.C.Heath. 1972. Some highlighting otherwise Reading Copy. $4.00
  • Meltzer, Milton. In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro 1619-1865. Thomas Y. Crowell. 1964. Very Good. $17.00
  • Muse, Daphne. ed. Prejudice: Stories About Hate, Ignorance, Revelation, and Transformation. Hyperion Books for Children. 1995 - 1st ed. Very Good. $11.50
  • Mutiso, Gideon-Cyrus M. Messages: An Annotated Bibliography of African Literature For Schools. Montclair State College Press. 1970. Very Good. $9.50
  • p'Bitck, Okot. Song of Lawino: An African Lament (Illustrated by Frank Horley). Meridian. 1969. Good. $7.00
  • Pettigrew, Thomas F. A Profile of the Negro American. Van Nostrand. 1964. Very Good. $15.25
  • Price, Hugh B. Destination: The American Dream-Collected Speeches And Writings of Hugh B. Price. National Urban League. 200-1. Very Good. $12.25
  • Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution. University of North Carolina Press. 1961. Good plus. $19.25
  • Richards, David. Played Out: The Jean Seberg Story (Otto Preminger's Movie St. John, Civil Rights Struggle, FBI Investigation, Black Panthers). Random House. 1981 - 1st ed. Very Good with dust jacket. $15.75
  • Roucek, Joseph S. and Kiernan, Thomas. The Negro Impact on Western Civilization. Philosophical Library. 1970. Pages slightly yellowed otherwise good plus. ISBN: 8022-2329-X. $19.00
  • Saunders, Doris, E., ed. The Kennedy Years and The Negro: A Photographic Record. Johnson Publishing. 1964. Good Plus. $5.95
  • Schluter, Herman. Lincoln, Labor and Slavery: A Chapter From the Social History of America. Russell & Russell. 1965 reprint of 1913 ed. Very Good. $24.75
  • Silberman, Charles E. Crisis in Black and White (Bold, profound attempt to understand the Negro crisis in America with respect to its possible solution). Random House. 1964. Pages slightly yellowed otherwise good plus. $14.00
  • Sloan, Irivng. The Negro in Modern American History Textbooks ( A Study of the Negro in selected junior and senior high history textbooks as of Sept., 1966). American Federation of Teachers. . Good. $10.00
  • Sowell, Thomas. Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? (A set of 3 cassette tapes read James Bundy). Classics On Tape. 1988. Good in plastic case. $5.50
  • Spencer, Samuel R. Booker T. Washington and The Negro's Place in American Life. Little, Brown, & Co. 1955. Very Good. $16.75
  • Staff of 135th Street Branch of New York Public Library. The Negro: A Selected Bibliography (compiled by the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library). New York Public Library. 1940. Twenty page pamphlet with four illustrations. Slightly bent otherwise good plus. $14.25
  • Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. Vintage Books. Reprint of 1956 ed. Extensive pen underlining. $4.00
  • Sullivan , Leon H. Build Brother Build (Self-determination; "Selective Patronage Program" in Philadelphia). Macrae Smith. 1969. Very Good. $17.25
  • Tannenbaum, Frank. Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas. Vintage Books. Circa 1970 reprint of 1946 ed. Pages yellowed otherwise Good. ISBN: 394-70231-X. $6.00
  • Taylor, Jared. Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America. Carroll & Graf. 1992. Very Good. $16.25
  • Van Deusen, John G. The Black Man in White America (Revised Edition). Associated Publishers, Inc. 1944. Tape marks on inside of covers. Pages slightly yellowed otherwise good plus. $27.50
  • Wade, Wyn Craig. The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America. Simon & Schuster. 1987. Very Good. $10.25
  • Ward, Baldwin H., ed. Pictorial History of the Black American. Year. 1968. Cover scuffed otherwise Good. $8.50
  • Ware, Gilbert. From The Black Bar: Voices Fro Equal Justice (New Perspectives on Black America). G.P. Putnam Sons. 1976. As New. $7.50
  • Watkins, Mel. Dancing With Strangers: A Mermoir. Simon & Schuster. 1998. Rear end page missing, text intact. ISBN: 0-684-80864-1. $9.00
  • Whitlow, Roger. Black American Literature: A Critical History (With a 1,520 title bibliography of works written by and about Black Americans). Littlefield, Adams. 1974. Outside is worn and scuffed otherwise contents are clean and in tact. Good. $7.50
  • Wish, Harvey. The Negro Since Emancipation. Prentice Hall. 1964. Paperback reading copy-some underlining. $5.50
  • Wist, Frederick M. "We Ain't What We Was": Civil Rights In The New South. Duke University Press. 1997. Good Plus. ISBN: 0822318938. $1.75
  • Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Oxford University Press. 1963. Good.This book was never read.-. $3.00
  • Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow (A Brief Account of Segregation). Oxford University Press. 1963. Good Plus. $8.00
  • Wool, Harold. The Labor Supply for Lower-Level Occupations. Praeger. 1976. Very Good. $14.00
  • Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers. 1940. Edges rubbed owith Good +. $18.25
  • Yellin, Jean Fagan. The Intricate Knot: Black Figures in American Literature, 1776-1863. New York University Press. 1972. Very Good. $16.00
  • Young, Jr. Whitney M. To Be Equal. McGraw Hill. 1966. Good Reading Copy. $6.25
  • _____. The Negro In American History ( Curriculum Bulletin-1964-65 Series-No.4). Board of Education. City of New York. 1964. Good Plus. $11.50
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