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    The Stained Glass Window

    David Levering Lewis

    National Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis's own family history that shifts our understanding of the larger American story

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    King: A Biography

    David Levering Lewis

    Updated with a new preface and more than a dozen photographs of King and his contemporaries, this edition presents the unforgettable story of King’s life and death for a new…

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    The District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History

    David Levering Lewis

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    The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader

    From its beginnings in 1919, with soldiers returning from the Great War, to its sputtering end in 1934, with the Great Depression, the New Negro Movement in arts and letters…

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    When Harlem Was in Vogue

    David Levering Lewis

    This detailed study of the Harlem Renaissance and its achievements will be beneficial for all students of contemporary American history.

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    W.E.B Du Bois: A Biography, 1868-1963

    David Levering Lewis

    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America - was a towering and controversial personality. This book chronicles Du Bois’ career.

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    The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order

    David Levering Lewis

    From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner comes this surprising portrait of Wendell Willkie, the businessman-turned-presidential candidate who (almost) saved America’s dysfunctional political system.

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    God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215

    David Levering Lewis

    From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, God’s Crucible brings to life a furiously complex age (The New York Times Book Review).

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    The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order

    David Levering Lewis

    From a two-time Pulitzer-winning historian comes an insightful, compelling portrait (New York Times Book Review) of Wendell Willkie, the businessman-turned-presidential candidate.

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    Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005

    James T. Campbell

    A groundbreaking history of the journeys of black Americans back to Africa over the course of three centuries, this book reveals that without understanding the long-evolving place of Africa in…

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    A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress

    Professor of History David Levering Lewis (Rutgers University),Deborah Willis

    Selected by W.E.B Du Bois and published together for the first time, a collection of 150 rare and beautiful photographs of African Americans out of slavery and beyond, with essays…

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    Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow

    Patrick J. Gilpin,Marybeth Gasman

    The milestones for blacks in 20th century America - the Harlem Renaissance, the struggle for equal education, and the civil rights movement - would have been inconceivable without the contributions…

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    Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow

    Patrick J. Gilpin,Marybeth Gasman

    The milestones for blacks in 20th century America - the Harlem Renaissance, the struggle for equal education, and the civil rights movement - would have been inconceivable without the contributions…

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    Darkwater: The Givens Collection

    W. E. B. Du Bois

    A new edition of the classic work by the celebrated scholar and activist is comprised of essays, verse, and other pieces written in the seventeen years after The Souls of…

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    Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

    W E B Du Bois

    The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. The pioneering work in the study of…

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    Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

    W. E. B. Du Bois,Lewis David Levering

    Black Reconstruction in America interprets the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication…

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    Red Activists and Black Freedom: James and Esther Jackson and the Long Civil Rights Revolution

    This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been…

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    Red Activists and Black Freedom: James and Esther Jackson and the Long Civil Rights Revolution

    This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been…

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    Fredrick L. McGhee: A Life on the Color Line, 1861-1912

    Dr Paul Nelson (James Cook University)

    The biography of a pioneer in early desegregation, anti-lynching, and civil rights cases, and a tireless activist and organizer for African American civil rights.

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    Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine

    Maceo C. Dailey Jr.

    The first biography of Emmett J. Scott, chief of staff, adviser, and ghostwriter to Booker T. Washington, and power player behind the Tuskegee Institute.

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    Citizen of the World: The Late Career and Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois

    In his 1952 book In Battle for Peace, W.E.B. Du Bois announced that he was a citizen of the world. This book chronicles selected chapters of Du Bois’s final three…

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