Gift Shop

The Village Market Gift Shop

Located in the Beck House at 1927 Dandridge Avenue has an array of African American related materials- from African America calendars to puzzle books with an African American history theme. We have most local African American author’s books including the Two Hundred Year History Books of Blacks in Knoxville by Robert Booker and Washington and Two Marches and The Choice by Sam Yette and Frankie Lennon’s recent release, The Mee Street Chronicles: Straight Up Stories of a Black Woman’s Life, the highly acclaimed new book. On My Journey Now by Nikki Giovanni, The Trouble I See by Vicky Lynn Wilson andStill I Rise With Dignity with Mattie Macon and Gwen Pirtle Rivers.
Other popular items include:

• Knowledge Cards- These cards cover such topics as “African American Art”. “Famous African American Women” and our most popular seller “The Civil Rights Movement” featuring Beck Center Director- Avon W. Rollins, Sr.

• Negro league Baseball caps
• Beck logo tote bags. t-shirts. caps, pens and mugs
• The Black Fives – A pictorial history of the Negro Basketball League
• Kwaanza Kits and cards
•Mood Pencils —changes color when you touch -inscription reads “Get in the mood for Black History and visit BeckCulturalExchangeCenter.”
• Wall Sized African American Posters
• African A postcards famous orators, writers, scientist entertainers sports figures and civil rights leaders

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