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  • Solidarity Song

    The Ballad of Mother Jones, Coal, and American Labor

    by Catherine Venable Moore ...
    A lyrical, stirring portrait of the twentieth-century coal miners who fought, undaunted, for the right to unionize West Virginia, culminating in one of the largest labor uprisings in American historyWest Virginia, 1921. Coal is king, labor laws are practically nonexistent, and an unauthorized civilian army is preparing to march across a mountain and face open gunfire. The marchers—union miners ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Solidarity Song

    The Ballad of Mother Jones, Coal, and American Labor

    by Catherine Venable Moore ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours

    A lyrical, stirring portrait of the twentieth-century coal miners who fought, undaunted, for the right to unionize West Virginia, culminating in one of the largest labor uprisings in American historyWest Virginia, 1921. Coal is king, labor laws are practically nonexistent, and an unauthorized civilian army is preparing to march across a mountain and face open gunfire. The marchers—union miners ... Read more

    $36.00 CAD

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  • Appalachian Ghost

    A Photographic Reimagining of the Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster

    by Raymond Thompson Jr., Rebecca Altman ...
    Series series Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices
    In the early days of the Great Depression, the search for steady work drove thousands of migrant laborers—many of whom were African American—from all over Appalachia to a rural area near Fayetteville, West Virginia. Union Carbide Corporation had begun construction on a three-mile tunnel to divert the New River, and many hands were needed.Toiling for five years in confined spaces with poor ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • On Dark and Bloody Ground

    An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars

    by Anne T. Lawrence ...
    In 1972 Anne Lawrence came to West Virginia at the invitation of the Miners for Democracy movement to conduct interviews with participants in, and observers of, the Battle of Blair Mountain and other Appalachian mine wars of the 1920s and ’30s. The set of oral histories she collected—the only document of its kind—circulated for many years as an informal typescript volume, acquiring an almost ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

    by Bonnie Bader, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Elizabeth Wolf ...
    Series series Who Was?
    The story of one of the most influential civil rights activist of our time.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights. Maintaining nonviolent and peaceful tactics even when his life was threatened, King was also an ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Devil Is Here in These Hills

    West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom

    by James Green ...
    "The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I've ever read." —John Sayles, writer and director of MatewanOn September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were ... Read more

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  • Freedom Summer

    The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

    by Bruce Watson ...
    A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Eyes on the Prize

    America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

    by Juan Williams ...
    Series series Eyes on the Prize
    Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v*. the Board of Education* case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

    My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

    by Lynda Blackmon Lowery ...
    Illustrated by PJ Loughran ...
    **A SIBERT INFORMATIONAL BOOK MEDAL HONOR BOOK • Discover the power of youth activism in this moving memoir about the Civil Rights Movement, ideal for young readers interested in America’s fight for equality.“A testament to the power we each have within us to stand up for what is right and to make the world a better and more just place.”—Dan Sturman, Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The ABCs of Black History

    by Rio Cortez ...
    Illustrated by Lauren Semmer ...
    Series series The ABCs of History
    In this New York Times bestseller that takes a bold journey through the alphabet of Black history and culture, B is for Beautiful, Brave, and Bright!Letter by letter, The ABCs of Black History celebrates a story that spans continents and centuries, triumph and heartbreak, creativity and joy.It’s a story of big ideas—P is for Power, S is for Science and Soul. Of significant moments—G is for Great ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Battle of Blair Mountain

    The Story Of America's Largest Labor Uprising

    by Robert Shogan ...
    The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history - the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and lawless exploitation, picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Spies of Mississippi

    The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement

    by Rick Bowers ...
    The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentous periods in American history.Author Rick Bowers has combed through primary-source materials and interviewed surviving activists named in once-secret files, as well as the writings and oral histories ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD