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The Black WestThe Black West:
A Documentary and Pictoral History
New edition now available!
The indefatigable author of more than three-score books about American history, more than a dozen of which treat African American history, Katz sets the record straight in this revised and expanded version of his 1971 edition.
— Publisher's Weekly
{Buy this book} 		Black PioneersBlack Pioneers: The Untold Story
Out of a past little noted in history texts comes this tale of African American pioneers in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. Soon to be out of print!
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Other Titles by William Loren Katz (listed alphabetically)

Black IndiansBlack Indians: A Hidden Heritage
Learn how African and Native American people learned to live and work together in the Americas to oppose white oppression.

 Black LegacyBlack Legacy
Trace New York City's Black legacy from Dutch Governor Peter Minuit to Mayor David Dinkins and reveals how people of color built today's New York while they fought to end slavery and discrimination.
{Buy this book} 		Black WomenBlack Women of the Old West
African American women appear in few textbooks, Hollywood or TV movies of the West, but they were likely to turn up anywhere in American frontier life.
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Breaking ChainsBreaking the Chains
Of the myths that surround the institution of slavery, none has been as lasting as the claim that Africans wore their chains quietly.
{Buy the audio cassette} 		EyewitnessEyewitness
Explore pivotal moments in African American history, from recollections of the slave trade, accounts of the Civil War and impassioned words about the Civil Rights Movement, to the current state of Black America.
{Buy this book} 		Cruel YearsThe Cruel Years
A candid glimpse of the turmoil, oppression and injustice of the early 1900s through the words of 22 working women and men.
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