Search Results: Black history from Backstory Books & Yarn, CBA

This is a very good paperback book with no internal markings, tight binding, but a few scuffs and a red remainder mark on the bottom bleeding onto the cover.Wollenberg, Charles M. All deliberate speed: Segregation and exclusion in California schools, 1855-1975. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978, 204 pp., bibliographical note, index.

Very good paperback copy. First printing. No marks or significant signs of wear, tight binding.Crowder, Henry (with Hugo Speck). As wonderful as all that: Henry Crowder's memoir of his affair with Nancy Cunard, 1928-1935. Navarro (CA): Wild Trees Press, 1987, sources consulted, introduction and epilogue by Robert L. Allen, first edition.

Finney, Carolyn. Black faces, White spaces: reimagining the relationship of African Americans to the great outdoors. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014, 173 pp. First printing.Very good paperback copy. There are no marks in book, binding is tight.

Very good paperback copy - no marks, tightly bound, no significant signs of wear.Christian, Barbara. Black women novelists: the development of a tradition, 1892-1976. Newport: Greenwood Press, 1985, 275 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

Danticat, Edwidge. Brother, I'm dying. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, sixth printing, 272 pp.Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good hardcover bound in speckled buff paper with maroon titles on spine. Dated, inscribed, and signed by Edwidge Danticat on the title page. Dust jacket is in very good condition with a gold sticker stating "National Book Critics Circle Award Winner."

Riesman, Bob. I feel so good: the life and times of Big Bill Broonzy. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2011, 324 pp., illustrated with black and white photographs. Foreword by Peter Guralnick, Appreciation by Pete Townshend.Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good hardcover in beige cloth. Very good dust jacket. Corners are sharp, binding is tight. There is a stamp from the previous owner on the page before the title page.

Wilson, Ellen Gibson. The Loyal Blacks. New York: Capricorn Books/GP Putnam's Sons, 1976. 463 pp. Very good paperback copy. From the cover: The definitive account of the first American Blacks emancipated in the Revolution, their return to Africa and their creation of a new society there.

West, Cornel. Prophetic fragments. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co./Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ), first edition, 1988, 294 pp.This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket. No marks in text, tight binding, jacket protected by removable mylar.

Johnson, Doris, L. The Quiet Revolution in the Bahamas. Nassau: Family Island Press Limited, 1972. 177 pp. and errata pasted to inside back cover. Very good paperback copy, no marks, a few scratches on cover.

McWhirter, Cameron. Red summer: the summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America. New York: A John Macrae Book/Henry Holt and Company, 2011, 352 pp., black and white illustrations.Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good condition hard cover bound in red paper. Very good dust jacket. No marks in book, binding is tight, corners are sharp.

Francis, Charles E. and Adolph Caso. The Tuskegee Airmen: the men who changed a nation. Boston: Branden Publishing Company, photographs, index, personnel lists, 1997, Fourth edition - edited, revised, up-dated, and enlarged by Adolph Caso.This is a very good hardcover copy with clean, unmarked pages and a tight binding. It is inscribed by William H. Holloman III; he is listed in the book as Class SE-44-H, graduation Sept. 8, 1944. The dust jacket is very good with no signs of wear, now covered in removable mylar.