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Pre-Owned The Calling of Katie Makanya : A Memoir of South Africa 9780471178903

Now in paper! This award-winning memoir of a wonderful black woman spans the turbulent era from the late 19th century into the days of apartheid. Set in South Africa s major cities and towns before a backdrop of epochal historical events it... more

Robert Gordon - All for the Love of Rock N Roll - Music & Performance - CD

Robert Gordon and Tuff Darts was a staple at CBGB s and Max s Kansas City in the early and mid-70s part of the influx of groundbreaking bands of the era like The Ramones Patti Smith Television and Stiv Bators Dead Boys. The Darts opened several... more

The Public library quarterly / issued by authority of the Board of Education Kansas City Mo. Volume 1(1901) (1901) [LeatherBound]

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1901 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are included in black and... more

The social evil in Kansas City by Fred R. Johnson ... (1911) [LeatherBound]

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1911 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are included in black and... more

Kansas City s Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home (Paperback)

A few blocks southeast of the famed intersection of 18th and Vine in Kansas City Missouri just a stone s throw from Charlie Parker s old stomping grounds and the current home of the vaunted American Jazz Museum and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum sits... more

Pre-Owned The Uncertainty of Everyday Life 1915-1945 (Hardcover) 0060162961 9780060162962

The era between the world wars from the roaring 20s to the grim days of the Great Depression was a time of tremendous change. The United States became an increasingly urban culture as people left their farms to seek work in the cities. Many blacks... more

Pre-Owned The Kansas City Barbeque Society Cookbook: 25th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover 9780740790102) by Ardie A Davis Chef Paul Kirk Carolyn Wells

9780740790102. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. 25th Anniversary ed. Language: English. Pages: 336. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white Illustrations color. In the words of the Kansas... more

Champions of Black Baseball The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball (Paperback)

Charter members of the Negro National League stepping stone for Jackie Robinson home base for Satchel Paige and training ground for more than twenty blacks sent to the major leagues the Kansas City Monarchs survived the entire thirty-five-year span... more

Cases determined by the St. Louis Kansas City and Springfield Courts of Appeals of the state of Missouri. Volume 204 1919-1920 (1920) [LeatherBound]

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1920 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are included in black and... more

Pre-Owned Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (Hardcover 9780062005595) by Stanley Crouch

9780062005595. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 384. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 384 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the... more

Pre-Owned Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami (Hardcover 9780307907318) by Gretel Ehrlich

9780307907318. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 224. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white Maps. ** Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** ** Kansas City Star... more

Pre-Owned Joined at the Hip: A History of Jazz in the Twin Cities (Hardcover 9780873518178) by Jay Goetting Leigh Kamman

9780873518178. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 240. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 240 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. From the early days through Prohibition and the swing era then to... more

Kansas City Kansas (Paperback) by Joe H Vaughan

9780738593999. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 128. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. Contains: Unspecified Halftones black & white Maps. Images of America. Over the past 150 years many of the consumer goods sold... more

Pre-Owned Jasper s Kitchen Cookbook: Italian Recipes and Memories from Kansas City s Legendary (Paperback 9780740778629) by Jasper J Mirabile

9780740778629. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 178. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 178 p. Contains: Unspecified Illustrations black & white. For 55 years Jasper s has been a Kansas City staple a tradition... more

Pre-Owned The Golden Era in St. Petersburg: Postwar Prosperity in the Sunshine City Paperback

9781609498375. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 144. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Contains: Unspecified Illustrations black & white. Between 1946 and 1963 St. Petersburg was the quintessential... more

Strikes and racketeering in the Kansas City area. : Hearings before Special subcommittees of the Committee on education and labor and the Committee on government operations House

{Size: 17.78 x 24.13 cms} Lang: - English Pages 555 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2023 with the help of original edition published long back [1953]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated... more

The Golden Era in St. Petersburg: Postwar Prosperity in the Sunshine City (Paperback) by Jon Wilson

9781609498375. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 144. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Contains: Unspecified Illustrations black & white. Between 1946 and 1963 St. Petersburg was the quintessential Sunbelt city... more

Branches of the Vine : The Price of Admission: Re-Imagining the Bible Belt South for a NU World Order (Hardcover)

It s all quiet now in cities like Birmingham Chicago Detroit New York and Newark where blacks once protested and rioted against their segregated conditions in the 1960s and women burned their bras during the Women s Liberation era in the 1970s. But... more

African Americans of Houston

Texas is a Southern state and in many ways Houston is a typical Southern city. While Houston did not experience the types or degrees of racial violence found in other Southern cities during the Jim Crow era black Houstonians nonetheless found... more

Pre-Owned Kansas City Kansas (Paperback 9780738593999) by Joe H Vaughan

9780738593999. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 128. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. Contains: Unspecified Halftones black & white Maps. Images of America. Over the past 150 years many of the consumer... more

A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era: Civil War Petersburg : Confederate City in the Crucible of War (Hardcover)

9780813925707. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 384. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 384 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white Maps. Nation Divided. Few wartime cities in Virginia held more importance than... more

The Kansas City Bridge: With an Account of the Regimen of the Missouri River 1870 [Hardcover]

{Size: 22.59 x 28.94 cms} Lang: - English Pages 157 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1870]. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated... more

Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen: River of Hope: Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement 1865-1954 (Hardcover)

One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry Memphis Tennessee was at the forefront of black political empowerment during the Jim Crow era. Compared to other cities in the South Memphis had an unusually large number of... more

Pre-Owned Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era (Paperback 9780823255542) by Clarence Taylor

9780823255542. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 176. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Since the 1960s most U.S. History has been written as if the civil rights... more

Pre-Owned Jim Crow Nostalgia : Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville 9780816646784 Used

In the Jim Crow era of the early twentieth century Chicago s Bronzeville neighborhood on the city s South Side was a major center of African American cultural vitality and a destination for thousands of Southern blacks seeking new opportunities in... more

Pre-Owned The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob (Paperback) by Frank Hayde

9781569804438. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 240. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. The story of the American Mafia is not complete without a chapter on Kansas... more

Pre-Owned Wide-Open Town: Kansas City in the Pendergast Era Paperback

9780700627066. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 384. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Contains: Unspecified. Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But... more

Pre-Owned The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi Zarahemla and Kansas City Missouri (Hardcover) 0385535694 9780385535694

9780385535694. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 265. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 265 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Is the Book of Mormon the Great American Novel? Decades before... more