Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s, Hardcover - Traci Parker

DescriptionIn this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, ...

DescriptionIn this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, ...

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

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DescriptionIn May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Fr...

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DescriptionA second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wal...

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Well before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear weapons, African Americans were protesting the Bomb. Historians have general...

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Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Kate (Northwestern University) MasurIllustration(s): 15 illustrationsNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2022...

Presents a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi - an area with a fascinating civil rights history. The product of ...

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DescriptionPoetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freed...

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Exploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day-from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles WhiteP...

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An authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint...

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Freedom in the World is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The methodology of this survey ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Ilene CooperEleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice shows young readers how the former First Lady evolved from a poor little...

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