Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, Paperback - Kevin Boyle

Reducere. An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl o...

Reducere. The Jazz Age was a boom time in the Bluff City. Murder was rampant, and politics were rough-and-tumble. First, Mayor Rowlett Paine and Boss E.H. Cr...

Reducere. "For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders o...

Reducere. In the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Fuller Seminary theologian William Pannell decried the then-popular sentiment among white evangelicals t...

Reducere. In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by Afr...

Reducere. The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit The Three Death Se...

A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald's name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces - the most notable of which i...

This saga brings alive the world of the 10th century AD when the Vikings raided the coasts of England.

Reducere. Set in Jazz Age San Diego against the backdrop of yellow journalism, notorious Hollywood scandals, Prohibition corruption and a lively culture war,...

Reducere. Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681, 790 to just 45, 594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, h...

Reducere. DescriptionNamed to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 The Newspaper Boy is a remarkable collection of memories and personal reflections of the deep...

Fans of THE CROWN will love this exuberant story of a young Australian actress caught up in the excesses, royal intrigues and class divide of Jazz ...

Reducere. The civil rights movement was defined by figures thrust into positions of importance; be they participants in a sit-in, Freedom Riders, or marchers...

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary gl...

Reducere. Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters, and flappers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. It all began when the c...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Reconstruction Era and Gilded Age, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one bo...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Reconstruction Era and Gilded Age, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one bo...

Reducere. How would you fight to keep your dream alive? In this relatable true story, award-winning journalist Nita Wiggins reveals the abuses that happen of...

"Engaging. . . a remarkably candid account. . . Succeeding as a centrist in public life these days can be an almost impossible task. But centrism i...

Reducere. On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was j...

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At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large f...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

Scenes from the turbulent life of the rich, glamorous and beautiful Nancy CunardPublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): Anne de CourcyNumber of pa...

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DescriptionIn The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malle...

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A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

Reducere. Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the on...

Reducere. Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 mur...

Reducere. DescriptionThe son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of segregation early in life. Inspired by the words of Dr. Mart...

Reducere. In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the righ...

Reducere. A biography of John Lewis, one of the "Big Six" civil rights leaders of the 1960s, focusing on his involvement in Freedom Rides, the March on Washi...

Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reducere. Description"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides ...

Publisher: Straightforward PublishingAuthor(s): Anthony ReevesNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 148 x 210 x 30Cover type: Paper...

A Different View of Urban SchoolsPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Kitty Kelly EpsteinNumber of pages: 126Collection: CounterpointsPub...