The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America During the 1960s, Paperback - Peter B. Levy

Reducere. Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursui...

Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and us...

The 1960s heralded a golden age of Scottish football. Law, Gilzean, Baxter, Greig and Johnstone are just some of the names involved. Memorable matc...

The memoir of a trainee nurse at one of the world's most famous children's hospitals.Publisher: Welbeck Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Vanessa MartinNu...

The illustrated story of the rich pop music scene in the city of Adelaide in the 1960s and all the local bands that contributed to that remarkable ...

Reducere. In August 1965 the predominantly black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and violence following an incident of police brutalit...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of conten...

Reducere. In 1964, less than one year into his tenure as publisher of the Bogalusa Daily News, New Orleans native Lou Major found himself guiding the newspap...

This detailed study is the first ever book on English bussing, an integrationist policy introduced in places like Southall and Bradford in the 1960...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking study, Julian Carter demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to ...

UPDATED AND REVISED EDITION THE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF POOR AND WORKING-CLASS WHITES, URBAN ETHNIC GROUPS AND BLACK PANTHERS ORGANIZING SIDE BY SIDE...

Reducere. Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago -- and cities across the nationThe "pr...

From Mary Quant to Mods and Rockers, this is a colorful illustrated history of the most revolutionary decade for British fashion in the twentieth c...

Reducere. Love cryptograms? Interested in the 1960s? Take a step back in time with this collection of over 400 cryptogroups and cryptoquotes all with a 1960s...

This work explores the interaction of American Protestant missionaries with Iranians during the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on the missionary activ...

A terrific selection of previously unpublished photographs documenting Doncaster's railways in the 1960s.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): K...

The first in a series of four books looking at the history of the band in detail, decade by decade, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Covers the band's ...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): David J. ConnorNumber of pages: 412Collection: Disability Studies in EducationPublication date: 2007...

Reducere. "People have long told stories like our story but most never quite as long." And so begins Earl S. Braggs complex jazz memoir of growing up black a...

Reducere. The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in educatio...

DescriptionIn Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s, Tom Hayden, a seminal figure in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, documen...

Reducere. Love kriss kross puzzles? Interested in the 1960s? Take a step back in time with this collection of more than 50 kriss kross puzzles all with a 196...

Far-out fabric designs from the 1960s in full, cool colors, including all the orange, hot pink, and sky blue the era's most fertile imaginations co...

Publisher: Archie Comic PublicationsAuthor(s): Archie SuperstarsNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x 203 x 17Cover type: Pap...

Through exploration of black British community activism in three geographical case studies, this book argues that the 1980-1 anti-police disturbanc...

Reducere. DescriptionNorth Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of conten...

Reducere. DescriptionDesigned to be accessible to young readers, these volumes offer a way of learning about the history of America. Each book includes infor...

The contributors to Nervous Systems reassess contemporary artists' and critics' engagement with social, political, biological, and other systems as...

From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade that exploded America's postwar order.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Ke...

Reducere. Nearly a century ago, an African-American teenager crossed an invisible line of segregation at a Chicago beach and paid with his life. The incident...

Reducere. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, Sixth Edition, is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural history of...

Military culture and sheet music writers understood music to have the power to help create a strong military and community in the face of conflict....

Woodstock and Altamont bookend the late sixties, forming a social agenda for change. Americans transformed how they viewed themselves and society. ...

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, GermanyIllustration(s): 165 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2021D...

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building the...

A riveting look at the polarizing nature of the Beatles phenomenon, and how it transformed a generation, through the lens of a singular city in the...

Reducere. The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history b...

New B-format paperback - The first book to show that during the era of Wild West, the most dangerous place to be was in the Wilder East, far from t...

Reducere. The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in educatio...

Reducere. Devils Walking stands as an important milestone in the ongoing struggle to create justice from truth, and perhaps even reconciliation in a nation t...

Publisher: DB PublishingAuthor(s): Richard CrooksNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 158 x 234 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. A discussion of the dimensions of the Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple in Jerusalem).