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GEOFFREY CANADA
on his personal history
of violence

ANITA HILL
on her new book,
twenty years after

CARLOTTA WALLS LaNIER


on being one of the
Little Rock Nine

WES MOORE
on the promise and
power of education

JOHN PRENDERGAST
on ending Africa’s human
rights crisis

REBECCA SKLOOT
on science, religion,
race, and class

Also, introducing:
CONTENTS
F E AT U R E T I T L E S
BOOKS BY MAYA ANGELOU ........................................................2–3
FIST STICK KNIFE GUN By Geoffrey Canada ..................................4–5 Random House, Inc.
OPEN CITY By Teju Cole ..................................................................6–7
THREE DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING . . . By Ralph Ellison ........8–9
THE SHACKLED CONTINENT By Robert Guest ..........................10–11 EXAMINATION COPIES
REIMAGINING EQUALITY By Anita Hill ....................................12–13
STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS By Tracy Kidder ......................14–15 Examination copies are available to instructors
THE KING LEGACY By Martin Luther King, Jr. ............................16–17 seeking titles to review for adoption
consideration.
A MIGHTY LONG WAY By Carlotta Walls LaNier ........................18–19
SAVIORS AND SURVIVORS By Mahmood Mamdani ................20–21 The exam copy prices are as follows: $3.00 for
each paperback priced under $20.00, and 50% off
THE OTHER WES MOORE By Wes Moore ..................................22–23
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THE ENOUGH MOMENT priced at or over $20.00. Examination copies are
By John Prendergast with Don Cheadle ..................................24–25 limited to ten per instructor per school year and
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS can only be mailed to valid U.S. addresses.
By Rebecca Skloot ..................................................................26–27
SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY By Thomas J. Sugrue ......................28–29 To order, use the order form at the back of this
catalog. Examination copies must be prepaid
THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS By Isabel Wilkerson ................30–31
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FOR BEGINNERS® SERIES ..........................................................32–33 Random House, Inc., or order online at
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African American History, Politics, and Culture ..................................34 are subject to approval and availability.
Anthology and Reference ..................................................................35 Please allow 2–4 weeks for delivery.
Biographies, Autobiographies and Memoirs ......................................35
Hip Hop, Sports, and Popular Culture..................................................37
History, Politics, and Society ..............................................................38
Literature and Fiction ........................................................................40
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thRee daYs BeFoRe the shooting . . .
the unfinished second novel Page 8
By Ralph Ellison
Edited by John F. Callahan and Adam Bradley
A new scholarly edition—with mostly never-before-seen material—of the final work of fiction by one
of America’s greatest writers, available for the first time in trade paperback.
“[A] vastly ambitious informing allegory, an allegory made rich, as in Invisible Man, with the sensory details
of which Ellison was such a master.” —The New York Review of Books

the shackled continent


Page 10 Power, corruption, and african lives
By Robert Guest
In this lively, engaging, and, ultimately hopeful book, Robert Guest, former Africa editor for the
Economist, provides a persuasive look into the persistent problems of modern Africa and offers some
possible solutions.
“Astute and clever . . . [Guest has] an extremely strong and rationalist grasp of the present, and travels with
the classical economists David Ricardo and Adam Smith as inspiration. The Shackled Continent is a lively and
provocative read.” —RW Johnson, Sunday Times

stRide towaRd FReedom


the montgomery story Page 17
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduction by Clayborne Carson
Dr. King described his book as “the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the
principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the
process, acquired a new estimate of their own human worth.”
“Martin Luther King’s early words return to us today with enormous power, as profoundly true, as wise and
inspiring, now as when he wrote them fifty years ago.” —Howard Zinn

saVioRs and suRViVoRs


darfur, Politics, and the war on terror
By Mahmood Mamdani
Winner, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
From the author of the highly praised Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, here is the first analysis of the crisis in
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Darfur that considers the events of the last few years within the broad context of the history of Sudan,
as well as examines the efficacy of the world’s response to the crisis. Incisive and authoritative, Saviors
and Survivors will radically alter our understanding of the crisis in Darfur.
“[Mamdani] has written a learned book that reintroduces history into the discussion of the Darfur crisis . . .
an important book.” —The New York Times

the immoRtal liFe oF henRietta lacks Page 26


By Rebecca Skloot
Selected for Common Reading at more than 60 colleges/universities
“What is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks really about? Science, African American culture and religion,
intellectual property of human tissues, southern history, medical ethics, civil rights, the overselling of medical
advances? . . . The book’s broad scope would make it ideal for an institution-wide freshman year reading
program.” —David J. Kroll, Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences, North Carolina Central University

the waRmth oF otheR suns


the epic story of america’s great migration
By Isabel Wilkerson
Winner, 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; A Booklist Top 10 Black History Nonfiction Book
“ . . . [A] massive and masterly account of the Great Migration. . . . Based on more than a thousand interviews,
written in broad imaginative strokes, this book, at 622 pages, is something of an anomaly in today’s
shrinking world of nonfiction publishing: a narrative epic rigorous enough to impress all but the crankiest of
scholars, yet so immensely readable. ” —The New York Times Book Review
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MAYA ANGELOU
Poet, writer, performer, teacher and director maYa angelou was raised in Stamps,
Arkansas, and then went to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies,
beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written five poetry
collections, including I Shall Not Be Moved and Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing?, as well as the
celebrated poem “On the Pulse of Morning,” which she read at the inauguration of President
William Jefferson Clinton.
For a complete listing of other titles by Maya Angelou, go to http://tinyurl.com/4gc48c4

THE COLLECTED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF MAYA ANGELOU


Called “simultaneously touching and comic” by The New York Times, here is a
one-volume edition of all of Maya Angelou’s celebrated and bestselling
autobiographies.
Includes:
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Gather Together in My Name
• Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas
• The Heart of a Woman
• All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
• A Song Flung Up to Heaven
“Maya Angelou is a natural writer with an inordinate sense of life and she has written
and exceptional autobiographical narrative . . . a beautiful book—an unconditionally
involving memoir for our time or any time.” —The Kirkus Reviews
Modern Library | HC | 978-0-679-64325-8 | 1184pp. | $40.00/$45.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $20.00

GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME


Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou’s personal story, begun so
unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. During the end of World
War II and still in her teens, Maya Angelou gave birth to a son—the next few
years are difficult ones as she tries to find a place in the world for herself and
her child.
In this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou
powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with
dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8030-1 | 224pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

THE HEART OF A WOMAN


The Heart of a Woman sings with Maya Angelou’s eloquent prose and is filled with
unforgettable vignettes of famous people, from Billie Holiday to Malcolm X.
Even more central is Maya Angelou’s chronicle of the joys and the burdens of
being a black mother in America and how the son she has cherished so intensely,
and worked for so devotedly, finally grows to be a man.
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8032-5 | 352pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
Angelou’s moving account of her childhood and adolescence in the Depression-
era South. This is an unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and
1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou’s grandmother’s store was the
heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from
another planet.
“Students [. . .] find this book plunges them into a passionate, sensitive life in the
midst of troubled and sometimes brutal realities. They found Maya Angelou’s spirit
and strength a wellspring of pride in womanhood. Students also experienced the book
as writers themselves and learned much about the memoir craft.” —Constance Berman,
Director of Professional Studies, Southern Vermont College
Selected for Common Reading at Berry College, Green River Community College (Auburn, WA),
Luther College, and others.
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8002-8 | 304pp. | $17.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My
Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with
meaning. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life
that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons
in compassion and fortitude.
“A slim volume packed with nourishing nuggets of wisdom. . . . Overarching each brief
chapter is the vital energy of a woman taking life’s measure with every step.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Sound advice, vivid memory and strong opinion. . . . What is clear is that [Maya]
Angelou is, all these years later, still a charmer, still speaking her mind.”
—Washington Post Book World
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8003-5 | 192pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

SINGIN’ AND SWINGIN’ AND GETTIN’ MERRY LIKE CHRISTMAS


In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world.
After a failed marriage, Maya finds herself on an adventure of a lifetime touring
abroad through Italy, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Egypt. The exciting
experience is dampened only by Maya’s nagging guilt that she has abandoned
the person she loves most in life, her son, whose reentrance into her world
reveals to Maya the healing power of devotion and love.
Charged with Maya Angelou’s remarkable sense of life and love, Singin’ and
Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas is a unique celebration of the human
condition—and an enthralling saga that has touched, inspired, and empowered
readers worldwide.
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8031-8 | 320pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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FIST STICK KNIFE GUN To view trailer and official website for the documentary
Waiting for ‘Superman,’ featuring Geoffrey Canada,
A Personal History of Violence go to: www.WaitingForSuperman.com
By Geoffrey Canada

A new edition, including the story of the founding of


Harlem Children’s Zone

L ong before President Barack Obama praised his work as


“an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort
that is literally saving a generation of children” and First Lady
Michelle Obama called him “one of my heroes,” Geoffrey Canada
was a small, scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. His
childhood world was one where “sidewalk boys” learned the codes
of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, knife,
New Updated
Edition and, finally, gun.
“A more powerful depiction of the tragic life of urban children and a
more compelling plea to end ‘America’s war against itself’ cannot be
imagined.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A slim, revealing volume that should be required reading for anyone
who has ever negotiated the complicated hierarchy of ‘rep’ and
revenge on city streets.” —Boston Globe

Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-4461-2 | 192pp.


$14.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
teacher’s guide available

Also available:

FIST STICK KNIFE GUN: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF VIOLENCE


A True Story in Black and White
By Geoffrey Canada
Adapted by Jamar Nicholas
In a stunning pairing, acclaimed comics creator Jamar Nicholas presents Canada’s
raw and riveting account, one of the most authentic and important true stories of
urban violence ever told.
“Geoffrey Canada’s realistic yet hopeful voice finds fresh expression through the comic
style of Jamar Nicholas. Canada’s account of his childhood and the role that violence
played in shaping his experiences provides hard-won and crucial lessons.”
—Pedro A. Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University
“Jamar Nicholas is a master of his craft—his drawings are full of life and truly stunning.”
—Bryan Lee O’Malley, creator of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
“I wish every city had a Geoffrey Canada.” —President Bill Clinton
Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-4449-0 | 144pp. | $14.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

about the author


geoFFReY canada grew up in the South Bronx. Since 1990 he has been the president and
chief executive officer of Harlem Children’s Zone, an organization that offers a comprehensive
range of services to over 10,000 children in a nearly 100-block area of Central Harlem. Harlem
Children’s Zone has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, 60 Minutes, The Today Show,
Good Morning America, and Nightline, and has been recognized in The New York Times. In
October 2005 Canada was named one of “America's Best Leaders” by U.S. News and World Report.
He is featured in the film Waiting for ‘Superman.’

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A Message from Geoffrey Canada

When my memoir, Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence, was first published in
1995, it told the story of my life growing up in the South Bronx as both a victim of violence
and as a perpetrator for my own survival. Things in my neighborhood and in many
neighborhoods across the country have not improved since I was young. In fact, they’ve grown
worse. Violence has always been a problem, but it has never been as deadly as it is today. In
2009, the Children’s Defense Fund reported that nearly nine children and teens are killed
every day as a result of gun violence. With more guns and more drugs available on the streets
than ever before, what chance do kids today have of surviving, let alone thriving, in the world
that has been provided for them?

This year my publisher, Beacon Press, has released a revised edition of Fist Stick Knife Gun,
updated to reflect some of the work that has been done over the last fifteen years. At Harlem
Children’s Zone, where I am now the president and CEO, we have grown to serve nearly one
hundred city blocks, reaching more than ten thousand children with free programming and
support. One way that we accomplish this is by placing trained and caring adults in the
middle of these underserved communities, in order to let these children know that they are
not alone out there. In Fist Stick Knife Gun I describe what it was like for me to be in the
middle of the violence, with nowhere to run and no one to turn to. In the years since I wrote
it, I have worked to protect the children who are still trapped in that difficult place.

In addition to the revised edition of my memoir, Beacon Press has also released a new
graphic novel adaptation of Fist Stick Knife Gun by cartoonist and illustrator Jamar Nicholas.
This new version brings the book into the twenty-first century in a fresh and exciting way. It
offers a new tool for understanding the circumstances and psychology of the children who
must face violence every day.

The problem of youth violence cannot be solved from a distance. While I believe it is
essential that people begin to understand the crisis that our children face, it is more important
that they start taking steps to protect them. I hope that these two new editions of Fist Stick
Knife Gun will inspire today’s students, parents, activists, and concerned citizens to take these
steps. When I was in college, I was absolutely focused on one thing: how to improve the
outcomes for the kinds of kids I knew growing up. I still dream of the day that we find the
answer to that question.
Geoffrey Canada

Jamar nicholas and geoffrey canada at the


Random house second annual author event for
nYc educators

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OPEN CITY Website: www.TejuCole.com
A Novel
By Teju Cole

“The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great


expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events
float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for
those few things that I remembered with outsize intensity.”

A long the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing


his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for
Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental
environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process
his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present,
his past. Though he is navigating the busy parts of town, the
impression of countless faces does nothing to assuage his feelings
of isolation.
But it is not only a physical landscape he covers; Julius crisscrosses
social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures
and classes who will provide insight on his journey—which takes
him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most
unrecognizable facets of his own soul.
A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss,
dislocation, and surrender, Teju Cole’s Open City seethes with
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intelligence. Written in a clear, rhythmic voice that lingers, this
978-1-4000-6809-8 | 272pp.
$25.00/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50 book is a mature, profound work by an important new author who
has much to say about our country and our world.
“ . . . [B]eautiful, subtle, and, finally, original. . . . Cole has made his
novel as close to a diary as a novel can get, with room for reflection,
autobiography, stasis, and repetition. This is extremely difficult, and
many accomplished novelists would botch it, since a sure hand is
needed to make the writer’s careful stitching look like a thread
merely being followed for its own sake. Mysteriously, wonderfully,
Cole does not botch it.” —The New Yorker
“With every anecdote, with each overlap, Cole lucidly builds a
compassionate and masterly work engaged more with questions
than with answers regarding some of the biggest issues of our time:
migration, moral accountability and our tenuous tolerance of one
another’s differences. . . . Cole’s writing is assured, his ideas are well
developed, and his imagery is delicious.” —The New York Times

about the author


teJu cole was raised in Nigeria and came to the United States in 1992. He is a writer,
photographer, and professional historian of early Netherlandish art. Open City is his first novel.
He lives in New York City.

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A Message from Teju Cole

Open City is narrated by Julius, a young psychiatrist of mixed Nigerian


and German heritage. The story begins in 2006 in New York City and is
essentially an account of the year that follows in the life of Julius. He
wanders the post-9/11 city, at times talking to strangers, and at other times
he keeping to himself, but always sorting through the layers of the city’s
history.
This is a novel of the mind, in the modernist tradition of Virginia Woolf
and W.G. Sebald. But it also owes something to James Baldwin’s essayistic
freedom. Julius is a loner and he is distrustful of causes, and as we follow
his life—in addition to New York, he travels briefly to Brussels, and he
remembers incidents from his Nigerian childhood—we see that he is also
averse to drama. Because of his mixed heritage, he was an outsider while
growing up in Nigeria, and thought of as white. As an adult in America, he
is identified as black. Because he belongs everywhere and nowhere, he
takes in the world in an intelligent and detached way.
I was raised in Lagos, Nigeria (both my parents are Nigerian), and am a
professional historian of Netherlandish Art, currently working on my
dissertation at Columbia University. Not long before I began to write the
novel, I worked as a cataloguer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and
that experience taught me a great deal about the curating. Which objects
belong with each other? How does one bring together seemingly disparate
micro-narratives into a coherent whole? Open City, unlike most novels, is
not plot-driven. Rather, it is propelled by the narrative voice, as James
Wood pointed out in his laudatory review in The New Yorker.
I hope you will consider Open City for your college-level courses. I
believe that it is a challenging but accessible book, formally bold, complex
and memorable. The New York Times reviewer Miguel Syjuco wrote that it
“does precisely what literature should do: it brings together thoughts and
beliefs, and blurs borders,” and called it “a compassionate and masterly
work.”
Teju Cole

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THREE DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING . . .
The Unfinished Second Novel
By Ralph Ellison
Edited by John F. Callahan and Adam Bradley

A t his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two


thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had
spent nearly four decades writing. In 1999, Random House
published Juneteenth, billed as Ellison’s second novel but in
actuality only the most contained and finished portion of what
Ellison labored over. Indeed, Juneteenth represented only 350 pages
of those roughly 3,000 pages left behind. Three Days Before the
Shooting . . . gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all
the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences
Now in never before published.
Paperback
Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, the story is a multigenerational
saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting
U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who’s being tended to by “Daddy”
Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher who
raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in rural
Georgia. Presented in their unexpurgated, provisional state, the
narrative sequences form a deeply poetic, moving, and profoundly
entertaining book, brimming with humor and tension, composed
in Ellison’s magical jazz-inspired prose style and marked by his
incomparable ear for vernacular speech.
Modern Library | TR
978-0-375-75954-3 | 1136pp. “Ralph Ellison’s generosity, humor, and nimble language are, of
$25.00/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50 course, on display in Juneteenth, but it is his vigorous intellect that
rules the novel. A majestic narrative concept.”     —Toni Morrison

Also by Ralph Ellison:

THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF RALPH ELLISON


Revised and Updated
By Ralph Ellison
Edited and with an Introduction by John F. Callahan
Preface by Saul Bellow
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F.
Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered
reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act
(1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary
on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration
of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that
black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race,
religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”
“[Ellison’s] essays never fail to be elegantly written, beautifully composed, and intellectually
sophisticated.” —Los Angeles Times
Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-6826-2 | 904pp. | $18.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00

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Excerpt from Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
Chapter One

Two days before the shooting a chartered planeload of Southern Negroes swooped down upon the
District of Columbia and attempted to see the Senator. They were all quite elderly: old ladies
dressed in little white caps and white uniforms made of surplus nylon parachute material, and men
dressed in neat but old-fashioned black suits, wearing wide-brimmed, deep-crowned panama hats
which, in the Senator’s walnut-paneled reception room now, they held with a grave ceremonial air.
Solemn, uncommunicative and quietly insistent, they were led by a huge, distinguished-looking
old fellow who on the day of the chaotic event was to prove himself, his age notwithstanding, an
extraordinarily powerful man. Tall and broad and of an easy dignity, this was the Reverend A. Z.
Hickman—better known, as one of the old ladies proudly informed the Senator’s secretary, as
“God’s Trombone.”

This, however, was about all they were willing to explain. Forty-four in number, the women with
their fans and satchels and picnic baskets, and the men carrying new blue airline take-on bags,
they listened intently while Reverend Hickman did their talking.

“Ma’am,” Hickman said, his voice deep and resonant as he nodded toward the door of the
Senator’s private office, “you just tell the Senator that Hickman has arrived. When he hears who’s
out here he’ll know that it’s important and want to see us.”

“But I’ve told you that the Senator isn’t available,” the secretary said. “Just what is your business?
Who are you, anyway? Are you his constituents?”

“Constituents?” Suddenly the old man smiled. “No, miss,” he said, “the Senator doesn’t even have
anybody like us in his state. We’re from down where we’re among the counted but not among the
heard.”

“Then why are you coming here?” she said. “What is your business?”

“He’ll tell you, ma’am,” Hickman said. “He’ll know who we are; all you have to do is tell him that
we have arrived. . . . ”

The secretary, a young Mississippian, sighed. Obviously these were Southern Negroes of a type
she had known all her life—and old ones; yet instead of being already in herdlike movement
toward the door they were calmly waiting, as though she hadn’t said a word. And now she had a
suspicion that, for all their staring eyes, she actually didn’t exist for them. They just stood there,
now looking oddly like a delegation of Asians who had lost their interpreter along the way, and
were trying to tell her something which she had no interest in hearing, through this old man who
himself did not know the language. Suddenly they no longer seemed familiar, and a feeling of
dreamlike incongruity came over her. They were so many that she could no longer see the large
abstract paintings hung along the paneled wall, nor the framed facsimiles of State Documents
which hung above a bust of Vice-President Calhoun. Some of the old women were calmly plying
their palm-leaf fans, as though in serene defiance of the droning air conditioner. Yet she could see
no trace of impertinence in their eyes, nor any of the anger which the Senator usually aroused in
members of their group. Instead, they seemed resigned, like people embarked upon a difficult
journey who were already far beyond the point of no return. Her uneasiness grew; then she blotted
out the others by focusing her eyes narrowly upon their leader. And when she spoke again her
voice took on a nervous edge.
Excerpted from Three Days Before the Shooting . . . by Ralph Ellison. Excerpted by permission of Modern Library, a division of
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the publisher.

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THE SHACKLED CONTINENT
Power, Corruption, and African Lives
By Robert Guest

W hy is Africa so poor? Robert Guest, a journalist for The


Economist magazine, went on a seven-year quest to find
out. He reported from the killing fields of Congo. He
witnessed the collapse of Zimbabwe. He met lonely reformers,
brave dissidents and powerful crooks. He talked to peasants
about property rights and mobile-phone entrepreneurs who are
Now in
Paperback helping the continent to leap-frog into the information age.
For the world’s poorest people, economics is a matter of life
and death. Yet development experts have only a hazy
understanding of why some countries are rich and others poor.
With wit, compassion and analytical rigor, Robert Guest
examines what is holding Africa back. He concludes that bad
government is the main cause of the continent’s woes: that too
many people with power use it to prey on those who work for a
living. Yet he sees hope: governments can change, and rough-
and-tumble democracy is spreading across Africa with
exhilarating speed.
“I doubt whether there is a better brief introduction to the
travails of modern Africa and their causes.”
—Anthony Daniels, Sunday Telegraph
Smithsonian Books | TR
978-1-58834-297-3 | 288pp. “Astute and clever . . . [Guest has] an extremely strong and
$21.95/$25.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00 rationalist grasp of the present, and travels with the classical
economists David Ricardo and Adam Smith as inspiration. The
Shackled Continent is a lively and provocative read.”
—RW Johnson, Sunday Times
“It seems odd that Robert Guest causes as much trouble as he
does. The 33-year-old Africa editor of the influential Economist
magazine is personable, witty [and] eminently reasonable. But
[he] brings people’s blood to boiling point quicker than one can
say The Shackled Continent.”
—Jeremy Gordin, The Star, South Africa

about the author


RoBeRt guest was The Economist magazine’s Africa editor. He has reported from nearly 70
countries, roughly half of them during his seven years covering Africa. He has won several
awards, and is now The Economist’s Washington correspondent.

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A Message from Robert Guest

I once hitched a ride on a truck through a West African rain forest. The
journey was supposed to take less than a day, but it took four. The dirt roads
were fine so long as it didn’t rain. But we were in a rain forest, so it rained
often and hard, turning our route into a swamp. A collapsed bridge slowed us
down, too. The worst delays, however, were caused by police road blocks, of
which we met 47.
Every few miles, we’d see a couple of rusty oil drums and some barbed wire
in the middle of the road, and we’d have to stop. A plump gendarme would
check our axles and tail-lights and pick over our papers, hoping to find a fault
he could demand a bribe to overlook. Sometimes, this took hours.
The pithiest explanation of why travelers in Cameroon have to endure such
mistreatment came from the policeman at road block number 31. He had
invented a new rule about not carrying passengers in beer trucks. When I put
it to him that the law he was citing did not, in fact, exist, he patted his holster
and replied: “Do you have a gun? No. I have a gun, so I know the rules.”
Africa is poor today for many reasons, including the legacy of colonialism,
the frequent outbreak of civil war and the high prevalence of energy-sapping
diseases. But to my mind, the biggest obstacle to African prosperity is bad
governance. Those road blocks are a good illustration of how power is too
often wielded on the continent: the men with the guns make the rules, and
those who work for a living have to pay tribute. What Africans need is not
more aid, I argue, but less predatory government.
I’m always struck, when I give talks about Africa at American universities,
how many young people seem to care so much about my subject. When I tell
stories about war, disease and suffering, they are visibly moved. When I
describe the courage and ingenuity of so many Africans I know, they are
impressed. Yet what really animates them is the complex and incredibly
difficult question that I try to address in my book: why is Africa so poor, and
how can it become less so?
It is a question that links what they read in economics textbooks with what
they see on the news. It spans several disciplines, from political science to
environmental studies. It involves issues they are passionate about, from AIDS
to global warming. And thinking about it helps them to understand the world
we all live in a little better. At least, that is my hope.
Robert Guest

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REIMAGINING EQUALITY
Stories of Gender, Race, and the Search for Home
By Anita Hill

I n 1991, Anita Hill testified at the Senate confirmation hearings


of Justice Clarence Thomas. Her courageous testimony has been
credited with the launch of modern-day awareness about sexual
harassment. This controversial event, teeming with issues of race
and gender, set Hill on the path that has established her as a public
figure and scholarly authority on matters of gender, race, and class
equality.
In Reimagining Equality, Hill dives head first into these issues as
she examines the concept of ‘home’ as the nexus of the epic
struggles of women and African Americans in our nation’s history.
She explores how the personal experiences of those disenfranchised
by racial and gender inequality has historically informed the
struggles for equality and justice. In the 19th and 20th centuries,
October Hill explains, American women, barred from the workplace and the
2011 polls by male chauvinist traditions, argued that their roles as the
keepers of the home demanded their inclusion in the democratic
decisions of this country. After emancipation, African American
families dreamed of creating homes to establish themselves as fully
liberated citizens.
Beacon Press | HC Descended from slaves and born to black farmers, Hill shares with
978-0-8070-1437-0 | 224pp.
$25.95/$29.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 us the stories of her own family’s quest for home from the last of
her ancestors to be called slave to her own flight from small-town
Do not order before 10/4/2011.
Oklahoma. Just as she claims that home served as the foundation
of the struggle for blacks and women throughout history, these
personal stories of her family serve as the link between what
individuals experienced and the national story of the ongoing
search for equality.
Reimagining Equality will challenge our notions of history and our
assumptions about the path to a just society.

about the author


anita hill is a professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies at Brandeis University,
where she teaches courses on Race and the Law and Gender Equality. After receiving her JD
from Yale Law School in 1980, she worked as the attorney-advisor to Clarence Thomas at the
U.S. Department of Education. In 1991, she testified at the Senate confirmation hearings of
Clarence Thomas. She gained national exposure when her allegations of sexual harassment were
made public. She is the author of Speaking Truth to Power, in which she wrote about her experience as
a witness in the Thomas hearings. Hill has written widely on issues of race and gender in publications such as the
New York Times, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, Critical Race Feminism, and others. She has appeared on Today, 60
Minutes, Meet the Press, and Face the Nation.

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A Message from Anita Hill

It’s hard to believe that almost two decades have passed since the


dramatic Clarence Thomas Senate confirmation hearing that had
such an impact on so many in our nation, including perhaps some of
you. I’ve been very proud of the era of heightened awareness and
concern about sexual harassment that followed that frankly grueling
experience. I have had the privilege of meeting exceptional women
and men in nearly every state in the country who seek nothing more
than to end behavior, like sexual harassment, that keeps women from
reaching their full potential. Some real good did emerge. And I wrote
an autobiographical book that some of you may remember, Speaking
Truth to Power, back in 1997.
For me the positive developments of the recent past are just the
beginning. Starting from the premise that a fair and just society is in
everyone’s best interest, I have spent a great deal of time studying,
researching, and lecturing about how important it is that we strive
for full equality in our nation, no matter how difficult an
achievement it may seem. I’ve been working on my new book,
Reimagining Equality, that reflects my ideas about how we can begin
to realize equality for women, for blacks, and, particularly, for black
women. In it I look back at my ancestors, and forward, based on my
experiences and discoveries since the hearing. I hope you will enjoy
the stories and ideas presented here. 
I wanted to publish this new book on the twentieth anniversary of
the hearing—when there will be a fresh round of media and other
attention—not only to shine a bright light on the accomplishments
of the past twenty years but also to examine the issues that continue
to trouble me and many of you. It’s my hope that this book will help
a new generation to better understand and meet the challenges of
remaking our society into one that might actually reach the goal of
liberty and justice for all. Thank you for your support of my work,
past and present, and all best wishes for a successful year.
Anita Hill

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STRENGTH IN WHAT Website: www.TracyKidder.com
To view video of Tracy Kidder’s presentation at
REMAINS the 2009 First-Year Experience® Conference in
Orlando, FL, go to: http://tinyurl.com/yaud5t6
By Tracy Kidder

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award

Now in
Paperback
T racy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the
college common reading program classic Mountains Beyond
Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master
of the nonfiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the
superb story of a hero for our time. Deo arrives in America from
Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and
genocide, and plagued by horrific dreams, he lands at JFK airport
with two hundred dollars, no knowledge of the English language,
and no contacts. He ekes out a precarious existence delivering
groceries, living in Central Park and learning English by reading
dictionaries in bookstores. Then Deo meets the strangers who will
change his life, eventually pointing him in the direction of
Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing.
With Strength in What Remains, Kidder breaks new ground, telling
an unforgettable story as he travels back with Deo over a turbulent
life in search of meaning and forgiveness.
“That 63-year-old Tracy Kidder may have just written his finest
work—indeed, one of the truly stunning books I’ve read this year—is
proof that the secret to memorable nonfiction is so often the writer’s
Random House | TR
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$16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 version of the Ellis Island migration. Deo is propelled, so often, by
teacher’s guide available pure will, and his victories . . . summon a feeling of restored
confidence in human nature and American opportunity. Then we
plunge into hell. Having only glimpses of Deo’s past, we suddenly get
Selected for Common Reading at: a full-blown portrait. Kidder’s rendering of what Deo endured and
Alvernia University, Caldwell College, survived just before he boarded the plane for New York is one of the
Claremont McKenna College, Penn State Berks, most powerful passages of modern nonfiction.”
Stanford University, Trinity College, —Ron Suskind, The New York Times Book Review
University of Delaware,
Western Michigan University, and others

Also by Tracy Kidder:

MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS


The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
By Tracy Kidder
An ALA Notable Book; A New York Times Notable Book
In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases
and bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most.
Demonstrating a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth,
social systems, and disease, Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one
person can make a difference in solving global health problems.
A popular Common Reading selection at over 60 colleges/universities and One City, One Book programs.
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7301-3 | 352pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
teacher’s guide available

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A Message from the First Year Seminar Director at the University of Delaware

Dear Colleagues,

The University of Delaware chose Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder’s Strength in
What Remains as its First Year Common Reader in 2010. Strength in What Remains is the
story of Deogratias (Deo), a young medical student from the Central African nation of
Burundi, who fled the ethnic violence in Burundi and genocide in Rwanda and was
transported to New York City. Deo succeeded against all odds, graduating from Columbia
University, and subsequently returned to Africa. A truly remarkable story of survival, despair,
determination, evil, and kindness, the book was chosen by an advisory committee comprised
of faculty, students, advisors, and Student Life staff who believed that it would provide a
unique opportunity for students to consider issues related to that part of the world and to
begin addressing questions about personal meaning, transition, and passion. The committee
also felt that the book would encourage our students to consider what it means to be a global
citizen.

The choice proved extremely popular among the first year students, and the entire
University of Delaware community engaged in a number of events related to the book.
Author Tracy Kidder and the book’s hero Deo visited our campus to share their vision of hope
and renewal with our freshman class. Following their visit, a graduate of the University of
Delaware Honors Program spoke to the freshman class via Skype from the Village Health
Works Clinic in Burundi. Discussing how she had used her Delaware experience as a bridge
to help others achieve a better life in places that the rest of the world seems to have
overlooked, her talk complemented Kidder and Deo’s visit.

Strength in What Remains proved not only to be a popular choice, but to provide a unique
opportunity for our students to learn about another part of the world and to begin to
understand the complexities and interrelationships of the global landscape.

Sincerely,
Avron Abraham, Ph.D.
Faculty Director
First Year Seminar
and Common Reader Program

university of delaware students line up to have


books signed by deo

about the author


tRacY kiddeR graduated from Harvard University, studied at the University of Iowa, and
served as an army officer in Vietnam. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award,
the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. He lives in Massachusetts and Maine.

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A new partnership between Beacon Press
and the Estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Broadens our perception of king’s vision of social justice.” —Booklist

Books by Martin Luther King, Jr.


WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE
Chaos or Community?
Foreword by Coretta Scott King; Introduction by Vincent Harding
In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. isolated himself from the demands of the
civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored
over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for
more than ten years, he lays out his thoughts, plans, and dreams for America’s
future, including the need for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and
quality education. With a universal message of hope that continues to resonate,
King demanded an end to global suffering, asserting that humankind—for the
first time—has the resources and technology to eradicate poverty.
“Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the greatest organic intellectuals in American
history. His unique ability to connect the life of the mind to the struggle for freedom is
legendary, and in this book—his last grand expression of his vision—he put forward
his most prophetic challenge to powers that be and his most progressive program for
the wretched of the earth.” —Cornel West, professor of religion and African American
studies, Princeton University, and author of Race Matters
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“ALL LABOR HAS DIGNITY”


Edited and Introduced by Michael K. Honey
Covering all the civil rights movement highlights—Montgomery, Albany,
Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis—award-winning historian Michael
K. Honey introduces and traces King’s dream of economic equality. Gathered in
one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to most
readers. The collection begins with King’s lectures to unions in the 1960s and
includes his addresses during his Poor People’s Campaign, culminating with his
momentous “Mountaintop” speech, delivered in support of striking black
sanitation workers in Memphis. Unprecedented and timely, “All Labor Has
Dignity” will more fully restore our understanding of King’s lasting vision of
economic justice, bringing his demand for equality right into the present.
“Brings to life the King who from the outset of his public career insisted that ‘the evil
Includes CD of economic injustice’ must be combated along with racial inequality.”
of Rare MLK
Speeches —Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University
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about the author


maRtin lutheR king, JR. (1929–1968), Nobel Peace Prize laureate and architect of the nonviolent civil rights
movement, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

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THE TRUMPET OF CONSCIENCE
Foreword by Coretta Scott King; New Foreword by Marian Wright Edelman
In November and December 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures
for the renowned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Massey Lecture Series.
The collection was immediately released by the CBC under the title Conscience
for Change, but after King’s assassination in 1968, the book was republished as
The Trumpet of Conscience. Each oration found here encompasses a distinct theme
and speaks prophetically to today’s perils, addressing issues of racial equality,
conscience and war, the mobilization of young people, and nonviolence.
Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-0071-7 | 96pp. | $22.00/$25.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00

STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM CD Inside, Including


“A Christmas Sermon
The Montgomery Story on Peace”

Introduction by Clayborne Carson


Martin Luther King, Jr.’s account of the first successful large-scale application of
nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate.
King described his book as “the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to
heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the
weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimate of their own
human worth.” It traces the phenomenal journey of a community, and shows
how the twenty-eight-year-old Dr. King, with his conviction for equality and
nonviolence, helped transformed the nation—and the world.
“Martin Luther King’s early words return to us today with enormous power, as
profoundly true, as wise and inspiring, now as when he wrote them fifty years ago.”
—Howard Zinn
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MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image


Introduction by Charles Johnson; Edited by Bob Adelman
A striking collection of twenty-nine black-and-white images, MLK: A
Celebration in Word and Image is a photobiography of one of America’s greatest
figures, combined with powerful quotations by Dr. King. Compiled by renowned
photojournalist Bob Adelman.
Do not order before 10/25/2011.
Beacon Press | HC | 978-0-8070-0316-9 | 64pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $7.50 October
2011

WHY WE CAN’T WAIT


Introduction by Dorothy Cotton
In 1963, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in
the United States, but the campaign launched by Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent
direct action.
Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can’t Wait
recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963
was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. King examines the history of
the civil rights struggle and the tasks that future generations must accomplish to
bring about full equality. The book also includes the extraordinary “Letter from
Birmingham Jail,” which King wrote in April of 1963.
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A MIGHTY LONG WAY To view video of
Carlotta Walls LaNier’s
presentation at the 2010
My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School First-Year Experience® Conference
By Carlotta Walls LaNier with Lisa Frazier Page in Denver, CO, go to:
Foreword by President Bill Clinton http://tinyurl.com/27l9tfw

W hen fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs


of Little Rock Central High School on September 25,
1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to
class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be
known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more
turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break
down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America.
Complete with compelling photographs, A Mighty Long Way shines
a light on this watershed moment in civil rights history and shows
that determination, fortitude, and the ability to change the world
are not exclusive to a few special people, but are inherent within
us all.
“Carlotta Walls LaNier’s A Mighty Long Way is a riveting account of
nine brave high school students and their families in a quest for
quality desegregated public education. What happened in Little Rock
in 1957 resulted in America’s greatest constitutional crisis since the
Civil War. Carlotta’s account of events inside and outside Little Rock
Central High School should be read and studied particularly by those
who now walk through doors of opportunity which Carlotta and her
schoolmates first opened over 50 years ago. When I started her book,
I couldn’t put it down. It is a must-read.”
One World | TR —James L. “Skip” Rutherford III, Dean of The University of Arkansas
978-0-345-51101-0 | 336pp. Clinton School of Public Service
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“Carlotta Walls LaNier was the youngest of the Little Rock 9 to
teacher’s guide available
cross the color lines, political barriers and cultural chasms that
circumscribed her life. She, her family and friends paid a heavy price
that burdened them even as it liberated all of us. Her memoir, which
Selected for Common Reading at: is really our memoir, provides a rare perspective on that history in the
Colorado Mountain College making.”
Defiance College —Hank Klibanoff, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of The Race Beat:
SUNY Potsdam The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and The Awakening of the Nation
University of Illinois, Springfield
and others. “In A Mighty Long Way, this revered American and special friend
boldly tells how her high school days have evolved as the central
experience of her life. I commend Carlotta for the legacy she has left
and for the lessons she and her colleagues have taught us all with
such nobility.”
—Nancy Rousseau, Principal, Little Rock Central High School
(2002–present)

about the author


caRlotta walls lanieR attended Michigan State University and graduated from Colorado
State College—now the University of Northern Colorado, on whose board of trustees she sits.
After working for the YWCA, she founded her own real estate brokerage firm, LaNier and
Company. A sought-after lecturer, LaNier speaks across the country and has received the
Congressional Medal of Honor and two honorary doctorate degrees. She is the mother of two
children, Whitney and Brooke, and lives in Englewood, Colorado with her husband Ira.

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A Message from Carlotta Walls LaNier

Why I Wrote This Book:

I started this book in earnest in January of 2006. I had in mind the upcoming 50th
anniversary of our entry into Little Rock’s Central High School. This September 2007
event might have been the impetus, but it wasn’t the reason. (Besides, I sort of missed that
deadline by a couple of years!)

As I say in the book, I didn’t talk much about my experiences until the late 1980s, after
our 30th anniversary, when the nine of us were all together again in Little Rock and Bill
Clinton was governor of the state. In the years that followed, Melba told her story in
Warriors Don’t Cry. Ernie had a movie about his experience, The Ernie Green Story. Mrs.
Huckaby, the assistant principal, told her story, which was made into a movie called Crisis
at Little Rock. Back in the 1960s, Mrs. Bates had told her story in The Long Shadow of
Little Rock.

So I started making my way into high school and college classrooms to tell my story.
Invariably, students who knew some of these other works would assume that my story was
also their story, that my story had already been represented by others. Well, that just was
not the case. Each of us has a story—not greater or lesser, just different.

So this is one reason: My story had not yet been told. I was the only one who could
tell it.

But why the long wait? Because this journey back in time was deeply painful. To revisit
that period, to really find out what it all meant and how it shaped the life I have lived,
took a great deal of courage I wasn’t sure that I had. Though I had friends along the way
who helped me get at that story, the journey backwards—as it was over fifty years ago—
was still a singular and lonely path. Quite frankly, I did not want to go there. But as with
all that weighs heavy in our psyches, there are things we need to see in the light of day to
understand. As the old woman said, when asked about her writing: “How do I know what
I think until I see what I say?”

This book is my understanding of my story. It’s out now, and I can see the light of day.

Upon the book’s release, I began to talk about it with students on college campuses. My
favorite moments during these visits are the question and answer sessions. On a recent
visit to a campus in North Carolina, it seemed that every student was bursting with
questions. Some of the African American students connected their own educational path
with my journey. By doing so, they came to know their nation’s history in a more personal
and real way. I also enjoy going to lunch or dinner with students; the talk becomes more
intimate. I get to know who they are, and they can ask me questions that often cause me
to think in new ways about my story.

I would be delighted to visit your campus so your students can get to know my story,
which is ultimately their story.
Carlotta Walls LaNier

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SAVIORS AND SURVIVORS
Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
By Mahmood Mamdani

Winner, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

F rom the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes this


important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in
Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines
the world’s response to that crisis.
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the
conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987–89) between nomadic
and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a
severe drought that had expanded the Sahara Desert by more than
sixty miles in forty years; how British colonial officials had
artificially tribalized Darfur, dividing its population into “native”
and “settler” tribes and creating homelands for the former at the
expense of the latter; how the war intensified in the 1990s when
the Sudanese government tried unsuccessfully to address the
problem by creating homelands for tribes without any. The
involvement of opposition parties gave rise in 2003 to two rebel
movements, leading to a brutal insurgency and a horrific
counterinsurgency—but not to genocide, as the West has declared.
Mamdani also explains how the Cold War exacerbated the twenty-
year civil war in neighboring Chad, creating a confrontation
Three Rivers Press | TR
978-0-385-52596-1 | 416pp. between Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi (with Soviet support) and
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spilled over into Darfur and militarized the fighting. By 2003, the
war involved national, regional, and global forces, including the
powerful Western lobby, who now saw it as part of the War on
Terror and called for a military invasion dressed up as
“humanitarian intervention.”
Incisive and authoritative, Saviors and Survivors will radically alter
our understanding of the crisis in Darfur.
“Mahmood Mamdani . . . is one of the most penetrating analysts of
African affairs. In Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on
Terror, he has written a learned book that reintroduces history into
the discussion of the Darfur crisis and questions the logic and even
the good faith of those who seek to place it at the pinnacle of Africa’s
recent troubles . . . [An] important book.”
—Howard W. French, The New York Times

about the author


mahmood mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda. A political scientist and anthropologist, he is Herbert
Lehman Professor of Government and director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. In 2001
he presented one of the nine papers at the Nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium.

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Excerpt from Saviors and Survivors

Introduction

The Save Darfur movement claims to have learned from Rwanda. But what is the
lesson of Rwanda? For many of those mobilized to save Darfur, the lesson is to rescue
before it is too late, to act before seeking to understand. Though it is never explicitly
stated, Rwanda is recalled as a time when we thought we needed to know more; we
waited to find out, to learn the difference between Tutsi and Hutu, and why one was
killing the other, but it was too late. Needing to know turned into an excuse for doing
nothing. What is new about Darfur, human rights interventionists will tell you, is the
realization that sometimes we must respond ethically and not wait. That time is when
genocide is occurring.
But how do we know it is genocide? Because we are told it is. This is why the battle for
naming turns out to be all-important: Once Darfur is named as the site of genocide,
people recognize something they have already seen elsewhere and conclude that what
they know is enough to call for action. They need to know no more in order to act. But
killing is not what defines genocide. Killing happens in war, in insurgency and
counterinsurgency. It is killing with intent to eliminate an entire group—a race, for
example—that is genocide.

Those who prioritize knowing over doing assume that genocide is the name of a
consequence, and not its context or cause. But how do we decipher “intent” except by
focusing on both context and consequence? The connection between the two is the only
clue to naming an action. We shall see that the violence in Darfur was driven by two
issues: one local, the other national. The local grievance focused on land and had a double
background; its deep background was a colonial legacy of parceling Darfur between tribes,
with some given homelands and others not; its immediate background was a four-
decades-long process of drought and desertification that exacerbated the conflict between
tribes with land and those without. The national context was a rebellion that brought the
state into an ongoing civil (tribal) war.

The conflict in Darfur began as a localized civil war (1987–89) and turned into a
rebellion (beginning in 2003). That Darfur was the site of genocide was the view of one
side in the civil war—the tribes with land who sought to keep out landless or land-poor
tribes fleeing the advancing drought and desert. As early as the 1989 reconciliation
conference in Darfur, that side was already using the language of “genocide”—and indeed
“holocaust.” But that charge was made against the coalition of tribes they fought, and not
against the government of Sudan. In spite of this important difference, that language has
come to inform the view of those who blew the whistle—genocide—at the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 and was translated into a unanimous resolution of
both houses of the U.S Congress that year.

Excerpted from Saviors and Survivors by Mahmood Mamdani Copyright © 2009 by Mahmood Mamdani. Excerpted by
permission of Doubleday Religion, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be
reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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THE OTHER WES MOORE Website: www.TheOtherWesMoore.com
To view video of Wes Moore at the
One Name, Two Fates 2011 First-Year Experience® Conference in
Atlanta, GA, go to: http://bit.ly/ixv9UH
By Wes Moore

I n December 2000, The Baltimore Sun ran a short article about


Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes
Scholarship. The same paper also ran a huge story about four
young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a
spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting
for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers.
One of the brothers was also named Wes Moore.
Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence or his
inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same
newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt,
and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, a
convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility
of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been
haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen?
Now in That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that lasted for
Paperback several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes
discovered that the other Wes had experienced a life not unlike his
own. Both had grown up in similar neighborhoods and had
difficult childhoods. Both were fatherless. They’d hung out on
similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble
Spiegel & Grau | TR
with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had faced
978-0-385-52820-7 | 272pp.
$15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to
astonishingly different destinations.
Told in dramatic alternating narratives that take readers from
heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption,
Selected for Common Reading at:
The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to
• Colleges & Universities find their way in a hostile world.
Bay Path College (Springfield, MA)
Cabrini College (Radnor, PA) “The Other Wes Moore highlights the transformative influence of
California State University at Bakersfield caring adults. . . . Moore vividly and powerfully describes not just the
(Bakersfield, CA) culture of the streets but how it feels to be a boy growing up in a
Marquette University world where violence makes you a man, school seems irrelevant, and
• One City, One Book drug dealing is a respected career choice.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
Everybody Reads (Multnomah County Library “Wes Moore has not just written a compelling story, but has created a
in Portland, OR) perfect case study of how and why young men can go down the
One Book, One Bakersfield (Bakersfield, CA) wrong path—and how they can be saved. This should be required
reading for anyone who is trying to understand what is happening to
young men in our inner cities.”
—Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone

about the author


wes mooRe is a Rhodes Scholar and a combat veteran of the war in Afghanistan. As a White
House Fellow he worked as a special assistant to Secretary Condoleezza Rice at the State
Department. He was a featured speaker at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, was
named one of Ebony magazine’s Top 30 Leaders Under 30 (2007), and most recently, was
dubbed one of the top young business leaders in America in Crain’s New York Business. He works
in New York City.

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A Message from Wes Moore
I am living proof that a support system of family, mentors, and educators is critical for success
and, as such, have the most tremendous respect for those of you who give tirelessly of yourselves to
improve the future of a child. I would like to humbly thank all of you for being heroes to so many
of your students, for inspiring them in ways you probably cannot even fathom yet, and for
teaching them character and personal responsibility in addition to academics. It is your example,
your belief in them, along with the preparation you give them in the classroom, that will unlock
doors of opportunity.

I am a grandchild of a retired school teacher who taught in the Bronx public school system for
over twenty years, the son-in-law of a New York City public elementary school teacher of over
twenty years, and a proud advocate for schools and the kids they serve. I have grown up hearing
the stories of redemption and disappointment, of joy and pain, and of the success and failure of so
many kids who find themselves in a system that currently works for some, but doesn’t for too
many others. Like a captain on the front lines in Afghanistan, you are the front-line soldiers in the
most important battle our nation faces now: the battle to educate and prepare our next generation
of leaders.

Just as we need to mobilize leaders and resources around our battles overseas, the same must be
done to help our children navigate their journeys into adulthood.

We are all familiar with the disturbing statistics of low graduation and high dropout rates in our
nation’s public schools. And with more than fifty percent of marriages failing in today’s society,
and single-parent households the norm in many inner-city communities, children lack the
guidance that the family structure once provided. I am sure we are all alarmed that, in today’s
world, young men of color are more likely to be in prison than in college. For too many in our
nation, particularly those who live in our most precarious areas, a broken school system serves as a
precursor to entry into the juvenile justice system. But I believe this is a problem we can—and
must—tackle.

Studies show that students from low-income communities can and do achieve at high levels
when they are given the resources and attention they deserve. And there are amazing educators
and civic leaders who are already leading the charge with impressive steam. I know the fixes aren’t
simple, nor are they cheap. But there are a few things to remember: The answer isn’t simply
spending more money; it is to spend money wisely with a focus on the children we intend to serve.
The costs of inaction are unbearably high when you consider that it costs nearly $200,000 to
incarcerate someone in New York, while a recent Columbia University study shows that cutting
the dropout rate in half would yield 45 billion dollars annually in both new federal tax revenues
and cost savings.

Promising reforms that embrace alternative teaching platforms, teacher pay systems based on
performance, and the inspired 4.35 billion dollars in “Race to the Top” funds that the Obama
administration has allocated are tremendous, but a national embrace of innovation and policy
change is imperative.

We will need fortitude and ingenuity as we embark on the education reform battle of our
lifetime. The chance to raise expectations, the opportunity for our children to do better than their
parents, and the need to translate the experience of young students into the dreams of a nation
must now drive us all. Just as it was imperative for my fellow soldiers and I to win our fights, the
same can be said for you and the work you are doing. As President Obama recently expressed,
“The future belongs to the nation that best educates its citizens.” I could not agree more.

Wes Moore

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THE ENOUGH MOMENT Website: www.EnoughProject.org
To view video of John Prendergast at the
Fighting to End Africa’s Worst Human Rights Crimes 2011 First-Year Experience® Conference
in Atlanta, GA, go to:
By John Prendergast with Don Cheadle http://tinyurl.com/6xuvwfw

I n their follow-up to the bestselling Not On Our Watch, which


brought awareness to the genocide in Sudan, human rights
activist John Prendergast and Oscar-nominated actor and
philanthropist Don Cheadle present The Enough Moment: Fighting
to End Africa’s Worst Human Rights Crimes, an empowering look at
how people’s movements and inspired policies can stop genocide,
child soldier recruitment, and rape as a war weapon in Africa.
As Prendergast and Cheadle describe, an “Enough Moment”
is defined as that time when outrage triggers action and bystanders
become “Upstanders,” or people who take action on behalf of
others. They illustrate with such examples:
• a high school student in chicago started Youth united for darfur
to raise awareness of genocide.
• a seventy-eight-year-old retired educator in seattle founded a
coalition of churches and organizations to raise awareness and
funds for humanitarian relief.
• a young darfurian woman founded an association of women
journalists that use radios and phones to warn towns of militia
groups in their area.

Prendergast and Cheadle shed light on this burgeoning mass


Three Rivers Press | TR movement against human rights crimes, showing how it involves
978-0-307-46482-8 | 304pp. citizen activism, social networking, compassion, celebrities, and
$14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 globalization. They also provide action steps for the interested
citizen and interview well-known and influential people on how
they have been moved to action by their Enough Moments.
Interviews in The Enough Moment include: Madeleine Albright,
Ann Curry, Robin Wright, Mia Farrow, and Emile Hirsch.
“An important, valuable toolkit that will inspire many.”
—Kirkus Reviews

Also by John Prendergast:

UNLIKELY BROTHERS: OUR STORY OF ADVENTURE, LOSS, AND REDEMPTION


By John Prendergast and Michael Mattocks
Crown | HC | 978-0-307-46484-2 | 272pp. | $24.00/$27.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.00

about the authors


John PRendeRgast is a human rights activist and author. He is co-founder of the Enough Project
(EnoughProject.org), an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity. During the Clinton
administration, he was involved in a number of peace processes in Africa while he was Director of
African Affairs at the National Security Council and Special Advisor at the Department of State.
don cheadle is an actor, film producer, philanthropist, and author. Cheadle rose to
prominence for his supporting roles in the films Out of Sight, Traffic, and Ocean’s Eleven. In 2004,
his lead role as Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in the genocide drama film Hotel
Rwanda earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

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A Message from John Prendergast

Three of the most horrible scourges facing humanity are genocide (the destruction of people
based on their identity), rape as a war weapon (the deliberate destruction of women through
targeted sexual violence), and child slavery (children who are forcibly recruited to become
killing machines or sex slaves).

All three seem overwhelming and intractable, but the reality is that there are specific and
concrete solutions that can be implemented, if only there were the political and popular will to
do so.

Help is indeed on the way. In the last five years, a growing people’s movement has been born
in the United States and other countries to stop the genocide in Darfur. Similarly, there are
rapidly expanding international efforts to protect and empower the women of Eastern Congo,
who are subject to sexual violence more extreme than anywhere else in the world, as well as the
children of Central Africa (the Invisible Children), who have experienced the highest
abduction rates in the world at the hands of the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group.

Once they learn about these human rights crimes, people are eager to learn how they can
make a difference. We’ve learned a lot in the last few years, from our travels around the U.S.
meeting concerned citizens, about how to empower people to get involved, how to appeal to a
wide cross-section of folks to demonstrate how change happens, and how the individual—
working in the context of community—is at the center of change throughout history. The
women’s movement, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, the environmental
movement, the anti-apartheid movement—all of these were propelled in large part by
passionate and dedicated individuals, often small in number at the beginning, who believed in
standing up for human rights and human dignity.

For the first time in history, we have a real international anti-genocide movement. We also
have a growing chorus that could become a movement focused on stopping the destruction of
women in the Congo. We have a non-traditional, underground phenomenon called “Invisible
Children” sweeping through college campuses, dedicated to finding a solution to the child
soldier phenomenon in Central Africa. Building the scale and scope of these efforts through
this book and associated campaigns provides a unique and historic opportunity to help alter
the course of history.

The Enough Moment presents the transformative tales of what we call “Frontline Upstanders”
from war zones in Africa, “Citizen Upstanders” from around the U.S., and “Famous
Upstanders” from the world of celebrity, including Angelina Jolie, Ben Affleck, Madeleine
Albright, Ryan Gosling, Tracy McGrady, Ann Curry, and Mariska Hargitay. The book also
provides an expansive menu of action items to empower each reader to become part of the
movement. These stories will be channeled into what amounts to a recruitment drive: to help
build a meaningful people’s movement dedicated to ending these human rights crimes.

Ultimately, all the greatest policy ideas in the world mean nothing if we don’t have a
permanent constituency of people behind the ideas, demanding that our elected officials do
something. The Enough Moment provides a way for readers to become part of this popular
movement against mass atrocities that, if successful, could literally help change the fate of
millions of people.
John Prendergast

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THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF Website: www.RebeccaSkloot.com
To view video of author at DePauw University’s Ubben

HENRIETTA LACKS Lecture, go to: http://tinyurl.com/24h6xux

By Rebecca Skloot
Winner of 2010 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction
Winner of 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize
Winner of The American Association for the Advancement of
Science’s Young Adult Science Book Award
Selected as a Best Book of the Year by over 60 publications,
including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington
Post and USA Today

H er name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as


HeLa. She was a poor southern tobacco farmer who worked
the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without
her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in
medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they
were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of
cancer, viruses, and the effects of the atom bomb; helped lead to
important advances in cloning, in vitro fertilization, and gene
mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions, with
devastating consequences for her family.

Now in Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the


Paperback “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark
Broadway | TR white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s
978-1-4000-5218-9 | 400pp. small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave
$16.00/$18.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today,
teacher’s guide available where Henrietta’s children, unable to afford health insurance,
wrestle with feelings of pride, fear, and betrayal.
Selected for Common Reading at more than “What is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks really about? Science,
60 colleges/universities including: African American culture and religion, intellectual property of human
Fairmont State University tissues, Southern history, medical ethics, civil rights, the overselling of
Grand Valley State University medical advances? . . . The book’s broad scope would make it ideal for
Johns Hopkins University an institution-wide freshman year reading program.”
Marian University —David J. Kroll, Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Morehouse School of Medicine North Carolina Central University
San Diego State University
Siena Heights University “Heartbreaking and powerful, unsettling yet compelling, The Immortal
St. Bonaventure College Life of Henrietta Lacks is a richly textured story of the hidden costs of
University of California, Merced scientific progress. Deftly weaving together history, journalism and
University of California, Santa Barbara biography, Rebecca Skloot’s sensitive account tells of the enduring,
University of Maryland deeply personal sacrifice of this African American woman and her
University of Wisconsin family and, at long last, restores a human face to the cell line that
Virginia Commonwealth University propelled 20th century biomedicine. A stunning illustration of how
and the list continues to grow . . . race, gender and disease intersect to produce a unique form of social
Visit www.commonreads.com for full list vulnerability, this is a poignant, necessary and brilliant book.”
—Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University;
Editor of Technicolor: Race, Technology And Everyday Life

about the author


ReBecca skloot has taught at the University of Memphis, New York University and the
University of Pittsburgh. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s RadioLab and PBS’s Nova
ScienceNOW, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah
Magazine; Discover; Columbia Journalism Review; and elsewhere.
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A Message from Rebecca Skloot

I first learned about HeLa cells, and the woman behind them, as a teenager sitting in a
freshman biology class. I knew only fragments of Henrietta’s story, but those fragments inspired
me to start asking questions—about science and mortality, bioethics, and how I’d feel if my own
cells were used in research. I didn’t yet know that her cells had launched a multibillion dollar
industry while her children lived in poverty, or that the cells had devastating consequences for the
family.

Henrietta’s story captures the imagination of students in any number of disciplines, including
the sciences, medicine, African American studies, sociology, philosophy, law, bioethics, journalism,
and creative writing. I’ve spoken about HeLa at schools around the country, where students are
transfixed by the story. I tell them that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown on a scale they
would weigh more than one hundred Empire State Buildings, and that HeLa has been fused with
mouse cells to create Henrietta-mouse hybrid cells. It’s the stuff of science fiction, but it’s true, and
students love it. Combine that with the story of Henrietta’s family—a tale about science, religion,
race, and class—and students’ reactions are powerful.

During Q&As, the first question is usually: “Wasn’t it illegal to take her cells and use them in
research without asking?” The answer is no—not in 1951, and not in 2011. Today, most Americans
have their tissue on file somewhere through routine blood tests or biopsies. And since the late
sixties, when testing newborns for genetic diseases became required by law, each baby born in the
United States has had blood taken, and those samples are often stored and used by scientists. This
means that the majority of college students in this country have tissues of their own being used in
research, and neither they nor their parents likely realize it.

As a college professor, I always look for books that bring together the many disparate fields that
students will study throughout their careers and that allow them to explore the real-world
consequences of intellectual discoveries. Other professors tell me The Immortal Life of Henrietta
Lacks does just that, bringing together health, community, family, ethics, religion, science,
storytelling, history, business, law, and humanity.

Since spring 2010, I have talked about my book at more than one hundred schools nationwide.
As a regular guest lecturer who’s also worked as a correspondent for radio and television, I
understand the importance of being an engaging speaker, and my talks have been called “moving
and engaging of both the heart and mind.” To find out more, you can visit the events page of my
website at www.RebeccaSkloot.com and you can contact me through the site.

As a college biology major, I couldn’t have imagined that Henrietta’s story would lead me to
become a writer, or that writing this book would be a ten-year journey. There’s no telling what
effect this story could have on students. I can’t wait to find out.

Rebecca Skloot
©DePauw University

©DePauw University

©Rebecca Skloot

Rebecca skloot talks with students and signs books at dePauw university and university of alabama

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SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY Website: www.TomSugrue.com
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
By Thomas J. Sugrue

I n Sweet Land of Liberty, historian Thomas J. Sugrue deftly


outlines the history of the struggle for racial equality in the
North—its triumphs and failures, its ironies and unexpected
outcomes, opening up new ways of exploring the important—and
still unfinished—history of race, rights, and politics in modern
America. This first large-scale history of the struggle for civil rights
in the North moves from the White House to gritty storefronts,
from all-white suburbs to grim inner cities, and weaves together
the stories of both well-known and obscure actors in a racial drama
that sweeps from the 1920s to the present.
“Thomas Sugrue’s crisply written and massively sourced book
delivers the northern half of the civil rights story with an authority
that should make Sweet Land of Liberty indispensable.”
—David Levering Lewis, author of a biography of
The Life and Times of W.E.B. Du Bois
“Thomas Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty is one of the most important
works on modern American history to appear in recent memory. It
challenges and transforms what we think, not only about the struggle
for civil rights, but more broadly about the entire course of American
social and political development. It is one of those books that truly
changes our historical perspective.”
Random House | TR —Steve Hahn, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning
978-0-8129-7038-8 | 736pp. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the
$20.00/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00 Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
“Sweet Land of Liberty is a revelatory, daring, and ambitious book that
overturns the conventional histories of America’s struggle for civil
rights. In this powerful narrative, Thomas Sugrue draws compelling
vignettes of the forgotten women and men who fought against the
odds for racial justice in the North. He persuasively argues that what
happened on the streets, churches, and courtrooms of Chicago, New
York, and Los Angeles is every bit as important for understanding
modern America as the oft-told histories of the Southern freedom
struggle. This is one of those rare books that completely reorients our
understanding of the past.”
—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor,
Harvard University
“Sugrue makes the case that understanding the role of the North in
the civil rights struggle is imperative for making wise policy today.”
—Hartford Courant

about the author


thomas J. sugRue is an historian at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently Edmund J. and
Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology. Sugrue’s first book, The Origins of the Urban Crisis, won the
prestigious Bancroft Prize in History, the President’s Book Award of the Social Science History Association, the
Philip Taft Prize in Labor History, the Urban History Association Prize for Best Book in North American Labor
History, and was selected as a Choice Outstanding Book.

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Excerpt from Sweet Land of Liberty
Chapter 1

“Sweet Land of Liberty”

And this will be the day—this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with
new meaning:
My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

As the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., brought his speech at the 1963 March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom to a thundering close, Anna Arnold Hedgeman sat a few feet away. It was a
long-overdue moment of recognition for the sixty-four-year-old civil rights activist, though it was
bittersweet. The only woman on the steering committee for the march, Hedgeman had a place of
honor on the dais at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. It was only at the last minute, at her
insistence, that march organizers gave a few minutes on the program to Little Rock leader Daisy
Bates and “casually” introduced Rosa Parks to the crowd. Hedgeman remained unacknowledged, her
presence mute testimony to the importance of decades of grassroots organizing, much of it in the
North, that had brought a quarter of a million people to the greatest demonstration in the nation’s
history. It is safe to say that most of the marchers gathered that hot August afternoon had no idea
who she was. At a moment when the black freedom struggle was growing younger and more
militant, Hedgeman was part of a largely forgotten generation of activists, women and men, black
and white, religious and secular, whose lives embodied the long history of civil rights in the North.

Anna Arnold Hedgeman’s journey began in the small-town Midwest at the dawn of the twentieth
century, took her through the North, and brought her into the heart of a remarkable and diverse
political and social movement to challenge racial inequality in America. She came of age as millions
of blacks headed north in search of opportunity but faced a regime of racial proscription there that
was every bit as deeply entrenched as the southern system of Jim Crow. During her lifetime of
activism, she encountered grassroots school desegregation activists and angry Klansmen; black and
white churchwomen committed to dialogue on race relations; poor black migrants and struggling
women workers; hypocritical white liberals who mouthed their commitment to racial equality but
continued to profit from it; musicians, activists, and intellectuals who created the Harlem
Renaissance; black separatists dreaming of a proud black nation; and blue-collar activists committed
to building an interracial labor movement. A tireless woman of political savvy and considerable
charm, she worked with nearly every important civil rights activist in the first half of the twentieth
century.
Excerpted from Sweet Land of Liberty by Thomas J. Sugrue Copyright © 2008 by Thomas Sugrue. Excerpted by permission of Random
House Trade Paperbacks, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or
reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS Website: www.IsabelWilkerson.com
To hear the author speak
The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration about the book, go to:
By Isabel Wilkerson http://tinyurl.com/33yfn8c

Winner, 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction


A 2011 Booklist Top 10 Black History Nonfiction Book

I n this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–


winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great
untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of
black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities,
in search of a better life.
Profiling three lives, Wilkerson brilliantly captures each person’s
first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train
and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as
how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and
culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work.
Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of
Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb
account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land.
Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the
depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives
portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.
“[A] masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a
Random House | HC great people.” —Cornel West
978-0-679-44432-9 | 640pp.
$30.00/$34.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00 “[A] massive and masterly account of the Great Migration. . . .
Based on more than a thousand interviews, written in broad
Paperback forthcoming November 2011.
imaginative strokes, this book . . . is something of an anomaly in
today’s shrinking world of nonfiction publishing: a narrative epic
rigorous enough to impress all but the crankiest of scholars, yet so
immensely readable.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A landmark piece of nonfiction . . . sure to hold many surprises for
readers of any race or experience. . . . A mesmerizing book that
warrants comparison to The Promised Land, Nicholas Lemann’s study
of the Great Migration’s early phase, and Common Ground, J. Anthony
Lukas’s great, close-range look at racial strife in Boston. . . .
[Wilkerson’s] closeness with, and profound affection for, her subjects
reflect her deep immersion in their stories and allow the reader to
share that connection.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times

about the author


isaBel wilkeRson was the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and the
first African American to win for individual reporting. She is currently Professor of Journalism
and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University. During the Great Migration, her
parents journeyed from Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where she was born
and reared. This is her first book.
For video of an author Q&A, go to: http://tiny.cc/yunyg

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Excerpt from The Warmth of Other Suns

Chapter 1

Chickasaw County, Mississippi, Late October 1937

Ida Mae Brandon Gladney

The night clouds were closing in on the salt licks east of the oxbow lakes along the folds
in the earth beyond the Yalobusha River. The cotton was at last cleared from the field. Ida
Mae tried now to get the children ready and to gather the clothes and quilts and
somehow keep her mind off the churning within her. She had sold off the turkeys and
doled out in secret the old stools, the wash pots, the tin tub, the bed pallets. Her husband
was settling with Mr. Edd over the worth of a year’s labor, and she did not know what
would come of it. None of them had been on a train before—not unless you counted the
clattering local from Bacon Switch to Okolona, where, “by the time you sit down, you
there,” as Ida Mae put it. None of them had been out of Mississippi. Or Chickasaw
County, for that matter.

There was no explaining to little James and Velma the stuffed bags and chaos and all that
was at stake or why they had to put on their shoes and not cry and bring undue attention
from anyone who might happen to see them leaving. Things had to look normal, like any
other time they might ride into town, which was rare enough to begin with.

Velma was six. She sat with her ankles crossed and three braids in her hair and did what
she was told. James was too little to understand. He was three. He was upset at the
commotion. Hold still now, James. Lemme put your shoes on, Ida Mae told him. James
wriggled and kicked. He did not like shoes. He ran free in the field. What were these
things? He did not like them on his feet. So Ida Mae let him go barefoot.

Miss Theenie stood watching. One by one, her children had left her and gone up north.
Sam and Cleve to Ohio. Josie to Syracuse. Irene to Milwaukee. Now the man Miss
Theenie had tried to keep Ida Mae from marrying in the first place was taking her away,
too. Miss Theenie had no choice but to accept it and let Ida Mae and the grandchildren
go for good. Miss Theenie drew them close to her, as she always did whenever anyone
was leaving. She had them bow their heads. She whispered a prayer that her daughter and
her daughter’s family be protected on the long journey ahead in the Jim Crow car.
“May the Lord be the first in the car,” she prayed, “and the last out.”

When the time had come, Ida Mae and little James and Velma and all that they could
carry were loaded into a brother-in-law’s truck, and the three of them went to meet Ida
Mae’s husband at the train depot in Okolona for the night ride out of the bottomland.

Excerpted from The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. Copyright © 2010 by
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NOTES OF A NATIVE SON
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GHETTONATION
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AT THE HANDS OF PERSONS UNKNOWN
The Lynching of Black America
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HOPE FOR AFRICA
Voices from Around the World
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The Disappearance of Black Americans from U.S. Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums
Universities By Jennifer L. Eichstedt and Stephen Small
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NOBODY TURN ME AROUND VOICES OF FREEDOM
A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from
By Charles Euchner the 1950s Through the 1980s
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35th Anniversary Edition
COMPLICITY Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt,
How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited and Roger Furman
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Cole, Teju ....................................................................6, 41 Glover, Bonnie ................................................................41
Author/Title Index Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, The ................2 Go Tell It on the Mountain ................................................40
Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison, The..................................8 God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir........................................34
African Gods: Contemporary Rituals and Beliefs ................34
Color Me Butterfly: A Novel Inspired by One Family’s Going Down South: A Novel..............................................41
African History for Beginners............................................32 Journey from Tragedy to Triumph ..............................36 Golden, Marita ................................................................35
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: The Apollo Theater Coming of Age in Mississippi ............................................36 Golden, Thelma ..............................................................39
and American Entertainment ....................................37
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, Goodwin, Debi ................................................................34
Alexander, Amy ..............................................................35 and Profited from Slavery ..........................................39 Govenar, Alan..................................................................39
“All Labor Has Dignity” ....................................................16 Condoleezza Rice: An American Life: A Biography..............35 Griggs, Sutton ................................................................39
Amnesty International USA ......................................35, 42 Corner, The: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Grooms, Anthony ............................................................41
Anderson, S.E. ................................................................32 Neighborhood............................................................39 Guest, Robert ..................................................................10
Angelou, Maya ..............................................................2, 3 Daniels, Cora ..................................................................38 Hampton, Henry ............................................................39
Appiah, Anthony, editor ..................................................35 Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story........................................41 Hard Driving: The Wendell Scott Story ..............................35
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching Dau, John Bul ..................................................................34
of Black America ........................................................38 Hari, Daoud ....................................................................34
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime Harlem: A Century in Images ............................................39
Audacity of Hope, The: Thoughts on Reclaiming the That Changed America ..............................................40
American Dream ........................................................36 Harris, Middleton A., editor ............................................39
Decoded ..........................................................................37 Hatzfeld, Jean..................................................................34
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The ....................................37 Dennis, Denise ................................................................32
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The ........................41 Heart of a Woman, The ......................................................2
Devil Finds Work, The ......................................................40 Hill, Anita ........................................................................12
Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel ........................................41 Dinka: Legendary Cattle Keepers of Sudan ........................34
Baldwin, James ..................................................38, 40, 41 Hodari, Askhari Johnson..................................................41
Dixie, Quinton ................................................................35 Hope for Africa: Voices from Around the World..................38
Balf, Todd ........................................................................37 Doctor, Bernard Aquina ..................................................33
Ball, Edward ....................................................................38 Hope in the Unseen, A: An American Odyssey from
Donovan, Brian ..............................................................35 the Inner City to the Ivy League ..................................37
Barack Obama For Beginners, Updated Edition: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight:
An Essential Guide......................................................33 House Behind the Cedars, The ..........................................41
An African Childhood..................................................34 Howard Zinn on Race ......................................................40
Barrett, Leonard ..............................................................38 Douglass, Frederick....................................................35, 36
Bashir, Halima ................................................................34 Huisman, Kim A., editor ..................................................39
Dray, Philip......................................................................38 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings........................................3
Bayou: Vols. 1 and 2 ........................................................41 Dreams from My Father:
Beautiful Struggle, The: A Father, Two Sons, and Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The................................26
A Story of Race and Inheritance ..................................36
an Unlikely Road to Manhood ....................................35 Imperium in Imperio ........................................................39
Du Bois, W.E.B. ................................................................38
Beckwith, Carol ..............................................................34 In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary
Dude, Where’s My Black Studies Department?: African Americans Reclaimed Their Past......................39
Bennett, Barbara ............................................................34 The Disappearance of Black Americans from
Best African American Essays 2010 ..................................35 Incognegro ......................................................................41
Our Universities..........................................................38
Best African American Fiction 2010 ..................................35 IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in
Early African-American Classics ........................................35
Bird, Christiane................................................................34 the Americas ..............................................................40
Early, Gerald, series editor ..............................................35
Black Book, The: 35th Anniversary Edition ........................39 Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,
Echo from Dealey Plaza, The ............................................38 The: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African ............................36
Black History For Beginners ..............................................32 Eding, June, editor ..........................................................38 Jay-Z. ..............................................................................37
Black Holocaust For Beginners..........................................32 Eichstedt, Jennifer L. ......................................................38 Johnson, James Weldon ..................................................41
Black Poets, The ..............................................................42 Ellison, Ralph ....................................................................8 Johnson, Mat ..................................................................41
Black Women For Beginners ............................................33 Enough Moment, The: Fighting to End Africa’s Jones, Roxanne ..............................................................37
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story ..........................40 Worst Human Rights Crimes ......................................24
Just Above My Head ........................................................41
Bolden, Abraham ............................................................38 Equiano, Olaudah ............................................................36
Kidder, Tracy....................................................................14
Bombingham ..................................................................41 Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson, The ............41
Kindred............................................................................41
Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Euchner, Charles..............................................................39
Early Days of Hip Hop ................................................37 King, Martin Luther Jr. ..............................................16, 17
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family ........37
Boyd, Herb ......................................................................32 Kozol, Jonathan ..............................................................39
Faces of Africa: Thirty Years of Photography......................34
Breaking News: Contemporary Photography Kugelberg, Johan, editor ................................................37
Farrow, Anne ..................................................................39
from the Middle East and Africa..................................34 Laine, Daniel ..................................................................34
Ferguson, Leland ............................................................39
Brown, Cecil ..............................................................38, 41 LaNier, Carlotta Walls ......................................................18
Fierce Angels: The Strong Black Woman in American
Brown, Elaine Meryl ........................................................38 Last Resort, The: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem
Life and Culture ..........................................................36
Bumiller, Elisabeth ..........................................................35 on a Family Farm in Africa ..........................................35
Finding Oprah’s Roots: Finding Your Own..........................39
Butler, Octavia ................................................................41 Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands ........................................41
First Emancipator, The: Slavery, Religion, and the
Can We Talk about Race?: And Other Conversations Le Freak: The Life and Times of Nile Rodgers......................37
Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter................................36
in an Era of School Resegregation ..............................40 Leigh Fermor, Patrick ......................................................36
Firstbrook, Peter..............................................................36
Canada, Geoffrey ..............................................................4 Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American
Fisher, Angela..................................................................34
Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Portraits......................................................................40
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence..............4
and the Making of the Americas ................................40 Letter to My Daughter ........................................................3
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and
Carlin, Richard, editor......................................................37 Letters from Black America: Intimate Portraits
Redemption of the Black Athlete ................................37
Carter, Vincent O. ............................................................41 of the African American Experience ............................35
Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal
Chesnutt, Charles ............................................................41 Levy, Andrew ..................................................................36
Declaration of Human Rights ................................35, 42
Children of the Street: An Inspector Darko Dawson Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, The............................41
Fuller, Alexandra ............................................................34
Mystery......................................................................42 Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak..................34
Gaines, Ernest J. ..............................................................41
Christianse, Yvette ..........................................................41 Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs ................................41
Galliani, Francesca, photographer ..................................34
Citizens of Nowhere: From Refugee Camp to Canadian Little Black Book of Success, The: Laws of Leadership
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. ......................................................39
Campus......................................................................34 for Black Women........................................................38
Gather Together in My Name..............................................2
Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth ....................................................38 Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in
Gender Talk: The Struggle For Women’s Equality in
Cleaver, Eldridge..............................................................38 Washington, D.C., 1910–1940 ..................................38
African American Communities ..................................38
Coates, Ta-Nehisi ............................................................35 Lorde, Audre....................................................................36
Ghettonation: Dispatches from America’s Culture War ......38
Cole, Johnnetta Betsch and Beverly Guy-Sheftall ............38 Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych..........................42
Giovanni’s Room ..............................................................40

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Love, Jeremy ..................................................................41 Representations of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur ..........34
Maathai, Wangari............................................................34 Southern Plantation Museums ..................................38 They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence
Maggia, Filippo, editor ....................................................34 Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama in Ancient America ....................................................40
Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight White House ..............................................................40 Three Days Before the Shooting . . . ....................................8
to Be the World’s Fastest Human Being ......................37 Rhoden, William C...........................................................37 Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary ....................37
Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade Rice, Condoleezza............................................................37 Till-Mobley, Mamie ........................................................40
to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve Rodgers, Nile ..................................................................37 Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away ..................................................42
the Extraordinary ......................................................37 Rogers, Douglas ..............................................................35 Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times
Malcolm X. ......................................................................37 Ruck, Rob ........................................................................37 of Denys Finch Hatton ................................................37
Malcolm X For Beginners ..................................................33 Sadler, Nigel....................................................................35 Translator, The: A Memoir ................................................34
Mamdani, Mahmood ......................................................20 Sanchez, Sonia ................................................................42 Traveller’s Tree, The: A Journey Through the
Mandela’s Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, Sancton, Tom ..................................................................37 Caribbean Islands ......................................................36
and Courage................................................................35 Sanders, Edward..............................................................42 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph....................................................40
Mariners Museum, The, editor ........................................40 Santoro, Lara ..................................................................42 True Fires ........................................................................41
Marlow, L. Y. ....................................................................36 Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend ..........38 Trumpet of Conscience, The ..............................................17
Maskalyk, James, Dr. ......................................................34 Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War Tye, Larry ........................................................................38
McCarthy, Susan Carol ....................................................41 on Terror ....................................................................20 Tyson, Timothy B. ............................................................40
Meacham, Jon ................................................................39 Say It Loud: An Illustrated History of the Black Athlete ......37 Uncle Tom’s Cabin ............................................................40
Mercy ..............................................................................42 Scurlock Studio and Black Washington, The: Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life among the Lowly......................40
Merida, Kevin..................................................................36 Picturing the Promise ................................................39 Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early
Metzl, Jonathan M...........................................................39 Seal, Mark ......................................................................35 African America, 1650–1800 ....................................39
Mighty Long Way; A: My Journey to Justice at Shackled Continent, The: Power, Corruption, and Unconfessed ....................................................................41
Little Rock Central High School....................................18 African Lives ..............................................................10 Uncovering Race: A Black Journalist’s Story of
MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image ............................17 Shame of the Nation, The: The Restoration of Reporting and Reinvention ........................................35
Moody, Anne ..................................................................36 Apartheid Schooling in America..................................39 Unigwe, Chika ................................................................42
Moore, Wes ....................................................................22 Sharp, S. Pearl ................................................................33 Unlikely Brothers: Our Story of Adventure, Loss, and
Morning Haiku ................................................................42 Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Redemption ..............................................................24
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Washington Redskins ................................................38 Untold Glory: African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom,
Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World ....14 Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History....40 Opportunity, and Achievement ..................................39
My Bondage and My Freedom ..........................................35 Simon, David ..................................................................39 Up from Slavery: An Autobiography..................................37
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas ........3 Van Sertima, Ivan............................................................40
Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ..................36 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches ................................36 Vieux-Chauvet, Marie......................................................42
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a Visions of a Better World: Howard Thurman’s
Slave..........................................................................36 War-Torn Village ........................................................34 Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of
National Museum of African American History, editor ....39 Skloot, Rebecca ..............................................................26 African American Nonviolence ....................................35
Native Sons......................................................................41 Slave Trade, The ..............................................................35 Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights
Neer, Bob ........................................................................33 Slaves in the Family..........................................................38 Movement..................................................................39
Newkirk, Pamela, editor..................................................35 Smith, Thomas G. ............................................................38 Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights
Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the Somalis in Maine: Crossing Cultural Currents ....................39 Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s ............39
1963 March on Washington ......................................39 Song for my Fathers ........................................................37 Walker, Jerald..................................................................37
Notes of a Native Son ......................................................38 Soul of a Lion: One Woman’s Quest to Rescue Wall, Carolyn ..................................................................42
Obama, Barack................................................................36 Africa’s Wildlife Refugees............................................34 Warmth of Other Suns, The: The Epic Story of
Obamas, The: The Untold Story of an African Family..........36 Soul on Ice ......................................................................38 America’s Great Migration ..........................................30
On Black Sisters Street: A Novel ........................................42 Souls of Black Folk, The ....................................................38 Washington, Booker T. ....................................................37
On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 South African Township Barbershops & Salons..................35 Watson, Christie ..............................................................42
and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation......40 Soyinka, Wole..................................................................35 Weller, Simon..................................................................35
Open City: A Novel ........................................................6, 41 St. John, Warren ..............................................................39 Wheeler, Sara..................................................................37
Other Wes Moore, The: One Name, Two Fates ....................22 Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph ..............37 Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?............16
Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, Stengel, Richard ..............................................................35 Whitaker, Robert ............................................................40
and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference ............39 Stowe, Harriet Beecher....................................................40 Why We Can’t Wait ..........................................................17
Parkin, Gaile....................................................................41 Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, Wife of the Gods: A Novel..................................................41
Parks, Sheri ....................................................................36 and Redemption ........................................................37 Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Mysterious
Patrick, Deval, Governor ..................................................36 Strength in What Remains................................................14 Death in Africa ..........................................................35
Poems for New Orleans ....................................................42 Strickland, Bill ................................................................37 Wilkerson, Isabel ............................................................30
Portrait of the New Angola, The........................................34 Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story ................17 Williams, Juan ................................................................37
Prendergast, John ..........................................................24 Stringer, C. Vivian ............................................................37 Willis, Deborah, editor ....................................................40
Protest Psychosis, The: How Schizophrenia Became Such Sweet Thunder: A Novel............................................41 Wolffe, Richard................................................................40
a Black Disease ..........................................................39 Sugrue, Thomas J. ..........................................................28 Word, The: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative
Pym: A Novel....................................................................41 Sultan’s Shadow, The: One Family’s Rule at the Power of Reading and Writing ....................................35
Quartey, Kwei ............................................................41, 42 Crossroads of East and West........................................34 You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir ............................35
Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography......36
Black and Latin Game ................................................37 Clarence Thomas ........................................................36 Zinn, Howard ..................................................................40
Randall, Dudley, editor....................................................42 Suskind, Ron ..................................................................37
Rastafarians, The: Twentieth Anniversary Edition ............38 Sweeping Up Glass ..........................................................42
Reason to Believe, A: Lessons from an Improbable Life ......36 Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for
Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, Civil Rights in the North..............................................28
and Finding Home......................................................12 Tatum, Beverly ................................................................40
Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Tayac, Gabrielle, editor ....................................................40
Ourselves and the World ............................................34

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