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      Caroline Quarlls book cover with graphic of Caroline surrounded by blue and dark blue border

      Caroline Quarlls and the Underground Railroad

      9780870203886
      Paperback: $12.95
      120 pages, 43 photos, 6 maps, 7 x 9"
      ISBN: 9780870203886

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $12.95
      Freedom Train North book cover featuring illustrations of underground railroad

      Freedom Train North: Stories of the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin

      9780870204746
      Paperback: $15.95
      136 pages, 42 b/w photos and 11 maps, 8 x 9
      ISBN:9780870204746

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $15.95
      Blue Jenkins book cover featuring image of Blue surrounded by blue with red border

      Blue Jenkins: Working for Workers

      9780870204272
      Paperback: $12.95
      160 pages, 86 b/w photos, illus., and maps, 7 x 9"
      ISBN: 9780870204272

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $12.95
      Father Groppi book cover featuring  group marching for civil rights surrounded by blue with yellow border

      Father Groppi: Marching for Civil Rights

      9780870205750
      Paperback: $12.95
      156 pages, 60 b/w photos, 7x9
      ISBN: 978-0-87020-575-0

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $12.95
      Picture of Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader

      Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader

      9780870206788
      Paperback: $18.95
      256 pages, 19 b&w photos, 1 map
      ISBN: 9780870206788

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $18.95
      Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams DVD

      Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams | DVD

      9780870207280
      Produced by Wisconsin Public Television
      Running time 60 minutes
      $19.95 $9.98
      Educating Milwaukee book cover featuring black and white image of segregation protest

      Educating Milwaukee: How One City’s History of Segregation and Struggle Shaped Its Schools

      9780870207204
      Paperback: $24.95
      288 pages, 12 maps, 6 x 9
      ISBN: 9780870207204

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $24.95
      Tools for Teaching the History of Civil Rights in Milwaukee and the Nation

      Tools for Teaching the History of Civil Rights in Milwaukee and the Nation

      9780870207549
      Paperback: $19.95
      115 pages, 8½ x 11
      ISBN: 978-0-87020-754-9

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $19.95
      Justice for All

      Justice for All: Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee

      9780870208386
      Paperback: $26.95
      304 pages, 34 b&w photos, 6 x 9
      ISBN: 9780870208386

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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      $26.95
      Settlin': Stories of Madison's Early African American Families

      Settlin': Stories of Madison's Early African American Families

      9780870208850
      Author: Muriel Simms
      Paperback: $18.95
      224 pages, 64 b/w illus., 6x9
      ISBN: 978-0-87020-885-0

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

      For Library, Trade, and Wholesale
      $18.95
      Make Way for Liberty - book cover

      Make Way for Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans in the Civil War

      9780870209468

      Hundreds of African American soldiers and regimental employees represented Wisconsin in the Civil War, and many of them lived in the state either before or after the conflict. And yet, if these individuals are mentioned at all in histories of the state, it is with a sentence or two about their small numbers.... Full details below.

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      $24.95
      Book cover of Enslaved, Indentured, Free showing image of journal writing on top, with a middle section including a dark side silhouette of a woman and an orange background, and then the bottom displaying an illustration of the wilderness with a river and hills.

      Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800-1850

      9780870209895
      Enslaved, Indentured, Free shines a light on five extraordinary Black women whose lives intersected in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, during seminal years of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.

      Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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      $24.95
      Book cover of Finding Freedom with dark blue background showing illustration of a man carrying a knapsack over his shoulder running.

      Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Freedom Seeker

      9780870209550
      A bittersweet story of bravery and compassion, Finding Freedom provides the first full picture of the man for whom so many fought and around whom so much history was made.
      $20.00
      Cover of Spring 2022 issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History with a black and white photo of 4 people outside on a winter day. One of the people is holding a sign that says "Wallace: Blood is on your hands."

      Spring 2022 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

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      Black Wisconsinites react to George Wallace. Wisconsin's place in the maple syrup industry. Book excerpt: Letters from Clara. More!
      $10.00
      Book cover of "Seven Spools of Thread" showing an illustration of seven silhouetted figures standing together. Each person is dressed in red and each holds a ball of thread. The title, at the top of the cover, is in bold yellow font.

      Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story

      9780807573167
      Using the Nguzo Saba, "or seven principles" of Kwanzaa, the author creates a story that shows how family members can pull together for their own good and the good of the entire community.
      $7.99
      Book cover of "Voices of Milwaukee Bronzeville" with five black and white photos of groups of African American Milwaukeans, children and adults. The title of the book is in bold blue font on the left side.

      Voices of Milwaukee Bronzeville

      9781467148887
      Gathering interviews with residents of the now-vanished neighborhood, Dr. Sandra E. Jones reimagines Bronzeville not just as a place, but as a spirit engendered by a people determined to make a way out of no way.
      $21.99
      Cover of fall 2022 issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History with full page black and white photo of Helen Barnhill after 1988 election. A child is hugging her.

      Fall 2022 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

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      Two Trailblazing Black Women in the Republican Party. Wisconsin's "Plaster Doctor: Quack or Cure?" Book Excerpt: "Wisconsin Waters." More!
      $10.00
      Cover of winter edition of the Wisconsin Magazine of History with full page color photo of historic wooden Norwegian building with steep, shingled roof.

      Winter 2022 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

      1000000361
      The Norway Building Finally Finds Home. Women's Agency and Divorce in Early Wisconsin. Book Excerpt: "Enslaved, Indentured, Free." More!
      $10.00
      Cover of the Summer 2019 edition of the Wisconsin Magazine of History with full page black and white photo of Theodora Winton Youmans dated circa 1915.

      Summer 2019 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

      14000002
      Winning Women's Suffrage. Lead Mining & Slavery. Book Excerpt: "Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate." More!
      $10.00
      Book cover of "Never Givin' Up: The Life and Music of Al Jarreau" Featuring black and white photo of Jarreau holding a microphone.

      Never Givin' Up: The Life and Music of Al Jarreau

      9781976600197
      The first biography to chronicle the life and career of one of the most beloved musical artists to come out of Wisconsin. From his earliest days singing in the 1940s until his death in 2017, Jarreau defied categorization.
      $28.95
      Book cover of "Milwaukee's Bronzeville" with sepia photo of happy children holding band instruments in front of a building.

      Milwaukee's Bronzeville 1900-1950

      9780738540610
      Milwaukee's Bronzeville, a thriving 12-block area along Walnut street, is remembered by African American elders as a good place to grow up—times were hard, but the community was tight.
      $21.99
      Book cover of "Continually Working" by Crystal Marie Moten. Red font on manilla background.

      Continually Working

      9780826505576
      Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee.
      $34.95
      Cover of Wisconsin Magazine of History Fall 2023 with concert photo of singer Al Jarreau signing under red lighting.

      Fall 2023 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

      1000000450
      In this Issue: Pressley School of Beauty Culture; Polish Identity in Milwaukee; Book Excerpt: "Never Givin' Up: The Life and Music of Al Jarreau"
      $10.00
      This cover features a large black and white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr's face on the right with the title written on top. "MARCHING to the MOUNTAINTOP," is written in white and green and "How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr's Final Hours" is written below in smaller, orange italics. At the bottom of the cover, the author's name "Ann Bausum," is written in white italics. The lower half of the cover is a black and white photograph of protesters fighting for equality and rights.

      Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Rights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours

      9781426309397
      Ann Bausum chronicles the intertwining struggles of poverty, labor rights and civil rights culminating in the poignant final days of Martin Luther King Jr's life and his enduring legacy.
      $19.95 $4.99