BlackPast.org Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Winner of the 2015 Carter G. Woodson Award from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and the National Education Association
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: An Insider's Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
Fred GrayBlackPast.orgDec 14: Born in Montgomery, AL #OTD in 1930, Fred D. Gray is a civil rights attorney who represented Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study victims. #HBD 🎂 Read more about him here: https://t.co/sUmSxmD92u. https://t.co/3gB2uYHnMP
Paperback, 2002
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Iola Leroy: Or Shadows Uplifted
Frances E. W. HarperBlackPast.orgFrances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was an educator, abolitionist, suffragist & writer. She published her 1st book of poetry, Forest Leaves, at 21. At 67, she published the novel Iola Leroy, one of the 1st published by an Af-Am woman. https://t.co/nChe3BpXo5 #WHM https://t.co/opwIXH4JFH
Paperback, 1990
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: True Story of a Black Women Who Worked for Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Davis
Elizabeth KeckleyBlackPast.orgIn 1868, Keckley published her memoir, Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. Read a digitized version free, courtesy of Documenting the American South (#DocSouth) & @UNCLibrary at @UNC. https://t.co/u5YSra1MuY https://t.co/tcerRcxgfy
Paperback, 2019
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Ursula
Maria Firmina Dos ReisBlackPast.orgOct 11: Born free #OTD in Guimarães, Maranhão, Brazil, Maria Firmina dos Reis (1825-1917) is considered the founding mother of Afro-Brazilian literature. Her abolitionist novel, Ursula (1859) was the 1st written by a woman in Brazil. Read more: https://t.co/ZHF5icsn0q. https://t.co/zJAcu5wr78
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Elizabeth KeckleyBlackPast.orgIn 1868, Keckley published her memoir, Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. Read a digitized version free, courtesy of Documenting the American South (#DocSouth) & @UNCLibrary at @UNC. https://t.co/u5YSra1MuY https://t.co/tcerRcxgfy
Paperback, 2017
$4.99$2.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Iola Leroy: Or, Shadows Uplifted
Frances E. W. HarperBlackPast.orgFrances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was an educator, abolitionist, suffragist & writer. She published her 1st book of poetry, Forest Leaves, at 21. At 67, she published the novel Iola Leroy, one of the 1st published by an Af-Am woman. https://t.co/nChe3BpXo5 #WHM https://t.co/opwIXH4JFH
Paperback, 2018
$22.25$11.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: The Power of the Ballot
Ida E. JonesBlackPast.orgBaltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: The Power of the Ballot (American Heritage) https://t.co/hiPCggKoYR
Hardcover, 2019
$31.99$15.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book