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And Still I Cook
9781455615605
Regular price $22.00 Sale price $16.50 Save 25%This second cookbook from Leah Chase not only comes with her famous recipes, but it also contains her reflections on life, business, family, and friends. Now in paperback, the collection includes menus for special events.
Poems of Phillis Wheatley
9781557092335
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How to Grow the Peanut
9781429096867
Regular price $12.95 Sale price $9.71 Save 25%Originally published in 1916, this innovative peanut recipe book by prominent Black scientist George Washington Carver is just as delicious today.
How many ways can you possibly prepare the peanut? At least 105, according to George Washington Carver. In this book, Carver compiles recipes from agricultural bulletins, cookbooks, magazines, newspapers and more. Featured peanut recipes include bisque, doughnuts, sausages, candy and dozens of others.
In addition to recipes, Carver shows readers how to grow the peanut, where to plant peanuts, when to harvest them and everything in between. Carver's clean instructions are accessible even to farming hobbyists. Whether you're looking to grow peanuts or simply eat them every which way, this groundbreaking book by George Washington Carver is sure to satisfy.
Portrait of a Phantom
9781455625499
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Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food
9781626198722
Regular price $23.99 Sale price $17.99 Save 25%Florida native Zora Neale Hurston's early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing emphasizes the essentials of food in Florida through simple dishes and recipes.
It considers foods prepared for everyday meals as well as special occasions and looks at what shaped people's eating traditions in early twentieth-century Florida. Hurston did for Florida what William Faulkner did for Mississippi - provided insight into a state's history and culture through various styles of writing. Her collected food stories, folklore and remedies, and the related recipes food professor Fred Opie pairs with them, are essential reading for those who love to cook and eat.
Louis Jordan:
9781626194359
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Uncle Tom's Journey from Maryland to Canada
9781625859419
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $16.49 Save 25%Josiah Henson was born into slavery in La Plata, Maryland, and auctioned off as a child to pay his owner’s debt. After numerous trials and abuse, he earned the trust of his slaveholder by exhibiting intelligence and skill.
Daringly, he escaped to Canada with his wife and children. There he established a settlement and school for fugitives and repeatedly returned to the United States to help lead others to freedom along the Underground Railroad. He published a bestselling autobiography and became a popular preacher, lecturer, and international celebrity. He is immortalized as the inspiration for the title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Author Edna M. Troiano recounts the amazing life of Maryland’s Josiah Henson and explores the sites devoted to his memory.
The Combahee River Raid
9781626194748
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Leah Chase
9781455628155
Regular price $24.95 Sale price $18.71 Save 25%Now in paperback! Leah Lange Chase was raised in a small, country town across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans.
With the values instilled in her by devoted parents-hard work, faith, and family-she soon grew into a woman to be reckoned with. In her roles as chef of the most popular Creole restaurant in New Orleans, nationally respected patron of the arts, and civic leader, she has influenced the world around her in important ways. Reading her story makes one think, If she can do it, maybe I can too.
Frederick & Anna Douglass in Rochester, New York
9781626191815
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Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.
9781609495770
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $16.49 Save 25%John Muller explores Frederick Douglass's final years in Washington D.C., a part of Douglass's life rarely written about.
The remarkable journey of Frederick Douglass from fugitive slave to famed orator and author is well recorded. Yet little has been written about Douglass's final years in Washington, D.C. Journalist John Muller explores how Douglass spent the last eighteen years of his life professionally and personally in his home, Cedar Hill, in Anacostia. The ever-active Douglass was involved in local politics, from aiding in the early formation of Howard University to editing a groundbreaking newspaper to serving as marshal of the District. During this time, his wife of forty-four years, Anna Murray, passed away, and eighteen months later, he married Helen Pitts, a white woman. Unapologetic for his controversial marriage, Douglass continued his unabashed advocacy for the rights of African Americans and women and his belief in American exceptionalism. Through meticulous research, Muller has created a fresh and intimate portrait of Frederick Douglass of Anacostia.
God's Children
9781596296428
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Harriet Tubman
9781557092175
Regular price $14.95 Sale price $11.21 Save 25%After reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family. "I was a stranger in a strange land," she said later. "My father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were in Maryland. But I was free, and they should be free."
Harriet Tubman was a fugitive slave whose work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad made her a legend. Born in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849 and supported herself by working in Philadelphia hotels before relocating to Canada and, later, New York. Tubman first returned to Maryland in 1850, when she helped a niece escape from Baltimore, and over the next ten years, she frequently risked her life to liberate family members and other slaves in the area. During the Civil War, Tubman worked as a nurse and a spy for the Union army in South Carolina, where she was known as General Tubman. After the war, Tubman returned to Auburn, New York, where she spoke at women's suffrage meetings with other prominent figures such as Susan B. Anthony. This book is a testament of Harriet Tubman’s bravery and triumph in the face of overwhelming danger!
Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University
9781626196445
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Virginia's Civil Rights Hero Curtis W. Harris Sr.
9781467153249
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The Life and Legacy of B.B. King
9781467142403
Regular price $23.99 Sale price $17.99 Save 25%Blues legend B.B. King spent his life sharing the music of his soul, which shone relentlessly through hardship and triumph alike.
Born on a cotton plantation in 1925, the man born Riley B. King would grow up to be one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, being crowned The King of the Blues. He never wavered from his vocation, even as he gathered up other musicians in his wake and melded them into the harmony of his animating passion. In this intimate portrait of King, author Diane Williams offers a brief account of the monumental blues man’s life before settling in for a series of interviews with his bandmates and beloved family members, offering readers an invaluable opportunity to feel like they know King too.
Black Women Writers of Louisiana
9781467151719
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Tuskegee
9781467110358
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Life of Josiah Henson
9781557095855
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Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida
9781626199835
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Trailblazing Black Women of Washington State
9781467150422
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $16.49 Save 25%Breaking glass ceilings, organizing clubs, and making history as the first in their fields, these trailblazing Black women paved the way for new generations.
From Nettie Craig Asberry, founder of the Tacoma NAACP, to Dr. Dolores Silas, now honored by a school bearing her name, these women forged a path amid adversity. Black women were crucial to the war effort, working as Rosies at Boeing during World War II, and in the post-war years, Seattle musicians like Edyth Turnham and Her Knights of Syncopation were in high demand. These teachers, scientists, and politicians served on boards, led protests, and fought for civil rights across the state.
Join author and historian Marilyn Morgan as she chronicles the incredible lives and contributions of Washington's Black women.
Black Beauties
9781467144827
Regular price $23.99 Sale price $17.99 Save 25%In 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown.
Black beauty pageants created a distinctive and celebrated cultural tradition during some of the most dismal times in the country's racial history. With the rise of the civil rights and Black Pride movements, pageantry also represented a component of social activism. Professor Kimberly Pellum explores this glamourous and profound history with contributions by dozens of former contestants who share their personal experiences.
Long Way from the Strawberry Patch, A
9781455625031
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Carter G. Woodson in Washington, D.C.
9781626196308
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William Henry Jernagin in Washington, D.C.
9781467119115
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Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston
9781467153218
Regular price $24.99 Sale price $18.74 Save 25%Nannie Berger Hairston was a crusader for justice in twentieth-century Virginia.
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Nannie Berger Hairston was born in West Virginia in 1921, half a century after the end of the Civil War. She attended segregated schools, graduated, married and started a family. When Nannie’s husband, John, lost his job in the coal mine, the Hairstons moved to Southwest Virginia. It was the height of Jim Crow, and yet, against great odds, she and John became leaders in the community, advocating for civil rights and social justice. Nannie Hairston’s advice was sought by the powerless as well as the powerful. At the time of her death in 2017, she had taken her place as an icon for truth, justice and love.
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Local author Sheree Scarborough uses Nannie Hairston’s own words to tell her story.
The Picture Man: From the Collection of Bay Area Photographer E.F. Joseph 1927-1979
9781467125659
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Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.
9781626190061
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Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams
9781467139939
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $16.49 Save 25%Victorine Quille Adams was a Baltimore native and the first African American woman elected to the city council. Born in 1912, she lived through stringent segregation, racial violence and economic turbulence
Victorine Quille Adams was a Baltimore native and the first African American woman elected to the city council. Born in 1912, she lived through stringent segregation, racial violence and economic turbulence.
Educated at Morgan State and Coppin State Universities, she took to the classroom and enriched the lives of her students. In 1946, she founded the Colored Women's Democratic Campaign Committee to educate African American women about the vote and the power of the ballot box. In concert with fellow educators Mary McLeod Bethune, Kate Sheppard and Dr. Delores Hunt, she persisted in educating and empowering voters throughout her life. Author Ida E. Jones reveals the story of this civic leader and her crusade for equity for all people in Baltimore.