Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa into the Twenty-First Century

Based on materials from the nationally acclaimed Black Holocaust Exhibit, Lest We Forgetdocuments the plight of an estimated 100 million Africans, from their rich pre-slavery culture to their enslavement in a foreign land. This collection of stirring historic papers, memoirs, personal effects, and photographs presented alongside moving commentary chronicles the unyielding strength of a people who refused to be broken.

Taste the sweetness of freedom and the bitter struggle for equality through the documents that impacted the lives of an entire race. Freedom’s Children vividly presents the heart-wrenching and inspiring account of freedmen and freedwomen during Reconstruction and into the twentieth century.

Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans would trouble the waters of America—agitating, challenging, and defying the status quo. We Shall Not Be Moved chronicles the struggles and triumphs of African Americans leading up to and during the Civil Rights Movement. Feel the strength of those entrenched in the fight for justice up through the twenty-first century in an afterword that includes the election of America's first African American president and the beginning of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Make a personal connection with black history as you unfold a receipt for a five-year-old girl sold for one cent, hold a freed slave's manumission papers, flip through a deposit book for a savings account at the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, read a letter home from one of the first black army nurses sent overseas during WWII, and open a list of rules for lunch counter sit-ins distributed by a Nashville student in 1960. A foldout timeline gives a chronology of the African American history and experience. The additional removable replica artifacts allow you to hold in your hand:

• Rosa Parks's fingerprints
• A slave receipt
• FBI poster for one of the most high-profile cases of the civil rights movement
• A telegram to the White House from famed baseball player and activist Jackie Robinson
• A newspaper from 1857
• A Black Panther Party poster
• And more

With this richly designed and illustrated book, take an intimate, tangible, and unforgettable journey through more than 400 years of black history.

• Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit
• We Shall Not Be Moved
• Freedom's Children: The Passage from Emancipation to the Great Migration
• Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
• Yes We Did: Photos and Behind-the-Scenes Stories Celebrating Our First African American President
• Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
• Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
• 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
• The Negro Motorist Green Book Compendium
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness