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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
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
Little Leaders book cover featuring illustrations of black women in history

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

9780316475112
An educational children's story that features prominent black women in history who have helped to better the world. Full-color illustrations throughout.
$16.99
Little Legends book cover featuring black men in history

Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History

9780316475143
An educational children's story that showcases life stories of exceptional black men in history. Full-color illustrations throughout.
$17.99
Rectangular lapel pin mounted on a white card. The pin says, in raised chrome letters, "Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate. Only Love Can Do That. ~Martin Luther King"

Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate | Lapel Pin

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Enamel lapel pin that says, "Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate. Only Love Can Do That." ~Martin Luther King.
$9.95
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.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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$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!
$8.95
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
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!
$8.95
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

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The Norway Building Finally Finds Home. Women's Agency and Divorce in Early Wisconsin. Book Excerpt: "Enslaved, Indentured, Free." More!
$8.95
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

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Winning Women's Suffrage. Lead Mining & Slavery. Book Excerpt: "Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate." More!
$8.95
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