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Black Doctor: A Biography of James McCune Smith, MD, the First Fully Trained and Credentialed Black Doctor in America by Christopher L. Webber (Western New Mexico University Press) |
Blacks Against Brown: The Intra-Racial Struggle Over Segregated Schools in Topeka, Kansas by Charise L. Cheney (University of North Carolina Press) |
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Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums by Amy Sodaro (Rutgers University Press) |
The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War by Jeff Forrett (The New Press) |
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Recreation Without Humiliation: Black Leisure in the Twentieth-Century South by Mary Stanton (University of Georgia Press) |
Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me by Douglas Field (Manchester University Press) |
May I recommend Chosen Vessels: The Uniting Of America’s Promises Before The Semiquincentennial, Quality Press Publishing Company, by Elizabeth Branch. It is another interesting bit of work that will help our people to develop a true sense of belonging in the United States, in spite of adversities.