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  • Young King

    The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.

    by Lerone Martin ...
    AN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER"A rich . . . retelling of King's life . . . a compelling account."—The Wall Street Journal"An engaging, detailed examination . . . that goes a long way in humanizing the American hero’s public image."—The Atlanta Journal ConstitutionFrom a preeminent King scholar, the origin story of the man, minister, and civil rights hero who would lead ... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover

    How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism

    by Lerone A. Martin ...
    The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nationOn a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI director was not an evangelical, but his Christian admirers anointed him as their political champion, believing he would lead America back to God. ... Read more

    Was $35.19 CAD Now $25.29 CAD

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    Young King

    The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.

    by Lerone Martin ...
    Narrated by Blair Underwood ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    From a preeminent King scholar, the origin story of the man, minister, and civil rights hero who would lead the nation and change the world.We know who Martin Luther King, Jr. became, but who was he at the beginning of his life? How did his youth inform his outlook and activism?Before Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights leader, a Nobel Laureate, and a global hero, he was an emotional boy, a ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Preaching on Wax

    The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion

    by Lerone A Martin ...
    Series Book 5 - Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
    A multi-award-winning volume—the overlooked African American religious history of the phonograph industry.From 1925 to 1941, approximately one hundred African American clergymen teamed up with leading record labels such as Columbia, Paramount, and Victor-RCA to record and sell their sermons on wax. While white clerics of the era, such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles Fuller, became religious ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover

    How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism

    by Lerone A. Martin ...
    Narrated by Langston Darby ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 33 min

    The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation.Lerone Martin draws on thousands of newly declassified FBI documents and memos to describe how, under J. Edgar Hoover's leadership, FBI agents attended spiritual retreats and worship services, creating an FBI religious culture that fashioned G-men into soldiers and ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Black Church

    This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.“Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again“Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • A Shining Thread of Hope

    The History of Black Women in America

    by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson ...
    At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Singing in a Strange Land

    C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America

    by Nick Salvatore ...
    A prizewinning historian pens this biography of C.L. Franklin, the greatest African-American preacher of his generation, father of Aretha, and civil rights pioneer. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • African American Lives

    Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham ...
    African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Redemption

    Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours

    by Joseph Rosenbloom ...
    An “immersive, humanizing, and demystifying” look at the final hours of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America (Charles Blow, New York Times).“King comes to life in death—a courage ever so inspiring.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the BeginningAt 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Handy African American History Answer Book

    by Jessie Carney Smith, Ph.D. ...
    Series series The Handy Answer Book Series
    Celebrating the impact of African Americans on U.S. society, culture, and history! Traces African American history through four centuries of profound changes and amazing accomplishments.Walking readers through a rich but often overlooked part of American history, The Handy African American History Answer Book addresses the people, times, and events that influenced and changed African American ... Read more

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  • Chicago's New Negroes

    Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life

    by Davarian L. Baldwin ...
    As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD