Black History

These heat-resistant purple coasters feature portraits of six prominent women's rights figures: Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, and Sojourner Truth—celebrating their contributions to the woman's right to vote and the 19th Amendment.

$42.00

19th Amendment Heroines Coaster Set

Black baseball cap featuring a coiled snake emblem and the text Black Rattlers on the sides. The cap is front facing.

Black baseball cap featuring a coiled snake emblem and the text Black Rattlers on the sides. The cap is facing the left.

$32.00

Black Rattlers Hat

Portrait of Sojourner Truth, a formidable abolitionist and advocate for women's rights, with the quote, I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? set against a blue background.

$26.00

Sojourner Truth Tea Towel

$19.50

The Harlem Hellfighters

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Black and white photo of seven African American soldiers in uniform posing together, with the text We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity on the image.

$20.00

We Return Fighting WWI and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity

$18.00

The Women's Suffrage Movement

Cover of The Harlem Hellfighters by Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles, featuring African American soldiers in historic World War I uniforms against a period photograph backdrop.

$12.50

The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage

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Cover of Red Summer by Cameron McWhirter in white text, featuring a historical image of men with rifles tinted red and blue. Caption reads: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America during a time of racial unrest in white text.

$21.00

Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

$30.00

The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War

$43.50

Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War

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Tan book cover of Lost Battalions in white text by Richard Slotkin showcases soldiers in uniform with the subtitle The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality in red text.

$35.00

Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality

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Cover of Torchbearers of Democracy by Chad L. Williams, featuring an African American soldier in World War I uniform and white text.

$45.00

Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era

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$35.00

Duty Beyond the Battlefield

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Book cover of All Blood Runs Red by Phil Keith and Tom Clavin with a black and white photo of Eugene Bullard behind white and blue text.

$22.50

All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard

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$28.00

Harlem Hellfighters: African-American Heroes of World War I

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Book cover of Harlem's Hell Fighters by Stephen L. Harris, showcasing a historical photo of African-American soldiers and text in white, purple, and yellow on a black background.

$22.00

Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I

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$32.00

Eyewitness to the Harlem Hellfighters

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$30.00

Freedom Struggles

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$9.00

Harlem Hellfighters: Elite Infantry Soldiers of World War I

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The cover for Black Soldiers, White Laws is a black and white image of a trial being held in what looks to be a courtroom. A large group of black soldiers sit together behind a barrier, many of them with their arms crossed and heads turned as if listening to what it happening on the other side of the room out of view. White men, some in uniform and others in suits, are seen sitting in the main area of the room.

$30.00

Black Soldiers, White Laws: The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 Houston

Book cover of They Left Great Marks on Me by Kidada E. Williams featuring a historical illustration with a group of people. The subtitle reads African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I.

$30.00

They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I

$20.00

Until Justice Be Done

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Grey book cover of At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop in tan text, featuring a fragmented hand against a textured background.

$16.00

At Night All Blood Is Black [Paperback]

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Book cover with a picture of a young boy with a black and white dog on the beach. A soldier is looking out towards the ocean behind the young boy. The book is titled A medal for Leroy in white text by Michael Morpurgo in yellow text.

$17.00

A Medal for Leroy

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