Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, Paperback - Dan Berger

Reducere. In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass...

Reducere. DescriptionUnderstanding race in America--its history of oppression, inequality, inequity, prejudice, and discrimination--has been a journey for ma...

Reducere. Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil rights movement, ...

Reducere. This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, li...

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

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

Reducere. In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA ev...

Reducere. AwardsOregon Book AwardsDescriptionThrough much of the twentieth century, black Seattle was synonymous with the Central District--a four-square-mil...

Contributions by Rosa M. Banda, Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Donathan L. Brown, Michael L. Clemons, William H. L. Dorsey, Hannah Firdyiwek, Alonzo M...

The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and se...

Reducere. A deep dive into the politics of the Civil Rights Era, including the passing of new laws and the presidential responses to protest. A terrific way ...

Reducere. A collective biography about five musicians and groups at the height of their careers, whose passion and talent influenced the Civil Rights Movemen...

Reducere. A collective biography about five influential leaders of the Civil Rights Era Part of a new series on the Civil Rights Movement for ages 12 to 15 f...

Reducere. Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers of the civil rights era. During the course of his work, he took thou...

Reducere. Named One of the "Best Art Books of 2018" by the New York Times Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death--and at a time when race relations...

Since the first day after the tragedy was announced, controversy has surrounded the death of rap and cultural icon Tupac Shakur. In this work, pree...

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...

In the latest edition of this book, authors Rosalie Berger Levinson and Ivan E. Bodensteiner provide a more comprehensive overview of Post-Civil Wa...

Reducere. For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...

Offers a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. By enlarging the ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Martin A. BergerIllustration(s): 65 b-w illus.Number of pages: 162Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

This volume in the Issues in Historiography series examines the changing scholarly debate on individuals and events in African American history fro...

Who will lead America in the years to come? Letters from Young Activists introduces America's bold, exciting, new generation of activists. These di...

Reducere. The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to t...

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

DescriptionThis is the first comprehensive study of African American politics from the end of the 1960s civil rights era to the present. Not an opt...

Reducere. In this gripping historical novel, Dick Lehr tells the story of one protester in particular: Monroe Trotter, a black journalist who fought passiona...

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Reducere. In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with t...

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