Civil Rights
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SALE- Civil Rights & Slavery Collection
- Includes: Eyes on The Prize Americas Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 DVD - Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric… [ read more ]
$129.95- $127.99

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off- Freedom Riders Collection
- Includes: American Experience: Freedom Riders DVD - In 1961, the Civil Rights Movement in America was at a turning point -- while the Supreme Court had ruled that racial segregation was illegal, in many parts of the South public facilities were still divided into areas for blacks and… [ read more ]
$80.93- $69.99

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off- African American Lives DVD
- An unprecedented four-part series, AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES uncovers a new level personal discovery. Using genealogy, oral history, family stories, and DNA analysis to trace lineages through American history and back to Africa, the series provides life-changing journeys for a diverse group of… [ read more ]
$24.95- $17.47

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off- The People Speak CD
- Song Title and Artist 1. Do Re Mi - Bob Dylan 2. The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen 3. Masters of War - Eddie Vedder 4. Dear Mr. President - P!nk 5. Sail Away - Randy Newman 6. American Terrorist - Lupe Fiasco 7. Drums Of War - Jackson B [ read more ]
$10.99- $7.69

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off- Underground Railroad: The William Still Story DVD
- William Still was one of the most important, yet largely unheralded heroes of the Underground Railroad. Still was determined to get as many runaways as he could to "Freedom's Land," smuggling them across the US border to Canada. Bounty hunters could legally abduct former slaves living in the… [ read more ]
$24.95- $21.99

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off- Mine Eyes Have Seen : Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights...
- LIFE photographer Bob Adelman was present at the most significant moments of our nation's struggle with race relations and recorded them all on film. Bob Adelman's own commentary is supplemented by Charles Johnson's writing. A moving installment from the LIFE Great Photographers series. Nearly [ read more ]
$29.95- $14.99

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off- Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.? DVD
- Explore the various theories surrounding the death of the Civil Rights leader. [ read more ]
$24.95- $19.99


- American Experience: Road To Memphis DVD
- On this American Experience: Road To Memphis DVD, we are reminded that we were never concerned with who killed Martin Luther King, but what killed Martin Luther King, says Andrew Young, former aide to Dr. King in ROADS TO MEMPHIS. From Emmy Award-winning director Stephen Ives, the 90-minute… [ read more ]
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off- American Journey of Barack Obama (Hardcover) Book
- Author: From the Editors of Life Magazine For decades Americans have turned to LIFE to see, understand, and remember the most important events and people of our time. Just as LIFE once opened up the glittering Kennedy White House, LIFE now focuses its lens on Barack Obama. The American… [ read more ]
$18.99- $13.29


- Black Panther Intercommunal News Service (Paperback) Book
- ''We knew from the beginning how critical it was to have our own publication, to set forth our agenda for freedom...to urge change, to use the pen alongside the sword,'' writes David Hilliard in the preface to this stunning collection of pages from the original groundbreaking editions of… [ read more ]
- $25.00

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off- Blues People Negro Music in White America (Paperback) Book
- Author: Leroi Jones "The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents,… [ read more ]
$13.99- $10.99

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off- By the People The Election of Barack Obama DVD
- Millions saw history made as Barack Obama took the podium on election night. But few witnessed his unguarded moments in the hours and days before he greeted the nation … until now. Meet the man who would be president and the dedicated campaign workers who helped get him there in this… [ read more ]
$14.95- $10.47

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off- Change We Can Believe in Barack Obamas Plan to Renew Americas Promise...
- Go deep into a pivotal point in American history in Change We Can Believe in: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise (Paperback). Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader -- one who can bring people together, be honest about the challenges we face, and move this nation… [ read more ]
$13.95- $9.77


- Condoleezza Rice An American Life A Biography (Paperback) Book
- A Washington correspondent for The New York Times and author of The Secrets of Mariko provides a close-up portrait of America's controversial Secretary of State, offering an intimate account of Rice's life and political career, her role as a powerful African-American woman in politics,… [ read more ]
- $17.00

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off- Different Mirror A History of Multicultural America (Paperback) Book
- Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United… [ read more ]
$17.99- $13.99

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off- Dreams from My Father A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama...
- Years before becoming the 44th President-elect of the United States, Barack Obama published Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, a lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. It tells… [ read more ]
$10.99- $7.69

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off- Ella Fitzgerald A Twentieth-Century Life (Hardcover) Book
- As a young runaway who had to live on the streets, Ella Fitzgerald overcame her financial and personal hardships in her adult years; shining on stage as a world-revered jazz singer who won thirteen Grammys, toured for more than 50 years, and became known as the First Lady of Song. [ read more ]
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- Exporting American Dreams Thurgood Marshalls African Journey (Hardcover) Book
- The story of Thurgood Marshall's journey to Africa in 1969 to help Kenyan independence leaders write their constitution is told in an intriguing work that recounts how his involvement with Kenya's foundation affirmed his belief in progress by legal means. Thurgood Marshall became a living… [ read more ]
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- Eyes on The Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 DVD
- Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to… [ read more ]
- $39.95


- Finding Oprahs Roots Finding Your Own DVD
- From the roots to the branches, all components of the family tree are equally important. In "Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own" (2006), Henry Louis Gates, Jr., with the help of Oprah Winfrey, digs deep into developments in genealogical research techniques and breakthroughs in… [ read more ]
- $24.99

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off- Freedom Flyers The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Hardcover) Book
- As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than… [ read more ]
$24.95- $18.71

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- Examines the life and career of the famous neurosurgeon. [ read more ]
$6.99- $5.99


- Greatest Muhammad Ali (Paperback) Book
- A riveting portrait of the world's greatest boxer chronicles his childhood, his rise as a champion, his politics, and his battle against Parkinsons' disease to demonstrate his accomplishments both inside and outside the ring. [ read more ]
- $6.99

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off- Invisible Man (Paperback) Book
- A Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility [ read more ]
$14.95- $10.99

SALE- Ken Burns Jazz The Story of Americas Music (Box Set) CD
- Track Listing: DISC 1: 1. Stardust – Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra 2. Soon One Mornin' (Death Come a-Creepin' in My Room) - Mississippi Fred McDowell 3. Memphis Blues - Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Band 4. Livery Stable Blues - Original Dixieland Jazz Band 5. Charlest [ read more ]
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- By Any Means Necessary (Paperback) Book
- The imperialists know the only way you will voluntarily turn to the fox is to show you a wolf. In eleven speeches and interviews, Malcolm X presents a revolutionary alternative to this reformist trap, taking up political alliances, women's rights, U.S. intervention in the Congo and Vietnam,… [ read more ]
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off- Michelle Obama in Her Own Words (Paperback) Book
- Michelle Obama in Her Own Words (Paperback) presents quotes from notable speeches and interviews by Michelle Obama on topics including family life, her husband, the 2008 Presidential election, and being a role model. This dynamic, inspirational woman is highly charismatic while remaining… [ read more ]
$12.95- $9.99

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off- Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope by Elizabeth Lightfoot (Paperback)
- There is no one quite like her. Michelle Obama. This is the first book to tell the astonishing story of a woman whose intellect, verbal flair, and poise are certain to make her one of the most influential First Ladies in history. [ read more ]
$10.99- $7.69

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off- Native Son (Paperback) Book
- Traces the fall of a young black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman. [ read more ]
$14.99- $11.99

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off- Obama The Historic Campaign in Photographs (Hardcover) Book
- Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama's nomination as the first African American to lead the presidential ticket of a major party. Visually revealing and dramatic, it's a story of history told in photos. Order… [ read more ]
$18.99- $13.29

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off- Pursuit of Happyness (Paperback) Book
- In a candid memoir, a successful entrepreneur traces his journey from growing up with an abusive stepfather, to life on the streets as a homeless man with a small toddler in tow, to his triumphant battle to the top as a self-made millionaire. [ read more ]
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- Railroads in the African American Experience A Photographic Journey...
- This captivating book takes readers on an illustrated tour of the black railroad experience from slavery to Amtrak. With almost 200 images -- many never before published -- Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., examines the significant contributions of African Americans to the building, maintenance,… [ read more ]
- $40.00

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off- Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters DVD
- This feature-length special features stories about slave catchers and slave resistance, from the colonial era through the Civil War and its aftermath. Slavery was built on a brutal system of slave policing--enforced by armed community patrols, paid slave catchers, and federal law. And most… [ read more ]
$24.95- $16.10

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off- Slavery by Another Name DVD
- Slavery by Another Name, narrated by Laurence Fishburne, is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South… [ read more ]
$24.95- $17.47

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off- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
- Barack Obama is the first African-American President-elect of the United States. He outlines his political philosophy, grounded in a belief that America's future can be better. His experiences on the campaign trail and early days in the Senate have shaped an ideological road map for the… [ read more ]
$25.00- $17.50

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off- The Official Inaugural Celebration DVD
- Reflect on the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Relive the unprecedented We Are One pre-inaugural celebration. Revisit the first-ever Neighborhood Ball featuring the President and First Lady's first dance, and renew the stirring call to unity… [ read more ]
$19.95- $13.97

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off- The Underground Railroad DVD
- A new documentary that unveils theihistory, heroes, andivillains of theiAbolitionist movement. It was America's first civil rights movement, a loose network of diverse people bound together by conscience, determined to undo the institution of slavery one person at a time. "Conductors"… [ read more ]
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- Voices Of A Peoples History (Paperback) Book
- Here in their own words, are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in Voices of a People's History of… [ read more ]
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off- Voices of Civil Rights DVD
- Join us for a fascinating look at one of the defining social movements in America's history — the Civil Rights Movement — told through the small, personal stories of men, women, and children who lived through this turbulent time. Save Our History: Voices of Civil Rights is a… [ read more ]
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- When We Were Kings DVD
- Academy Award winner "When We Were Kings" (1997) is a no-holds barred look at Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's 1974 'Rumble in the Jungle' heavyweight title bout in Zaire. Foreman was world champion and Ali was supposedly past his prime, but the fight and Ali's frank views on race and the… [ read more ]
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