Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio

Reducere. Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberli...

Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a uniqu...

Awards🏆Winner (2005) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: Michael J. KlarmanA monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's ruling...

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Reducere. The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Ride...

Reducere. They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through t...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Tanya Kateri HernandezNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 223 x 26Cover type: HardbackRed...

Reducere. Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged past to become one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies. ...

Literature on the civil rights movement has long highlighted the leadership of ministerial men and young black revolutionaries, such as Reverend Ma...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Toluse OlorunnipaNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 43Cover type: Har...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Toluse OlorunnipaNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 255 x 279 x 38Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson's Restaurant, just a few blocks from the ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Joel (Queens College, USA) SpringIllustration(s): 15 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Tables, black and ...

Late in 1965, Ashaninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a ...

Suffrage and Struggle in Manchester' celebrates the struggle for the recognition of female rights, the centenary of female suffrage and the 90th an...

Personal recollections, newspaper articles, new photos and material from the archives detailing the lives of women in Halifax from 1800-1950, throu...

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America's Third Reconstructio...

Hesiod's archaic poem, the Catalogue of Women, now survives only in fragments that represent perhaps one third of the original composition. In this...

Wide focus on the experiences of women in Northumberland using source material drawn from local archives, local history groups, previous accounts a...

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United St...

The St. Croix-born, Harlem-based Hubert Harrison (1883-1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist who combined class cons...

Determined presents a concise overview of Black history in Virginia from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia in 1619 through the...

Shuffled between two different homes since birth, a young and innocent African American boy eventually loses not only a sense of acceptance and bel...

Reducere. This classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. Wh...

Reducere. Expansive and ambitious yet comprehensive and coherent, From Slavery to Services: The Struggle for Economic Independence in the Caribbean is a tour...

DescriptionBlack French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gor e, Daka...

This work offers a new interpretation of the United Progressive Alliance's (2004-14) radical agenda for the religious minorities. It uses an instit...

Contributor(s): Author: Kate MasurAn Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation...

Reducere. DescriptionLike most of the nation during the 1930s, St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of the Great Depression. For the next thi...

Reducere. The African American Struggle for Library Equality: The Untold Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Program unveils the almost forgotten phil...

Reducere. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabe...

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Reducere. Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outca...

Reducere. As the father of the nuclear powered Navy, Adm. Hyman G. Rickover was a pivotal figure in twentieth-century American history. While many books have...

A unique approach to studying police forces around the globe.Publisher: SAGE Publications IncAuthor(s): Ibrahim CerrahNumber of pages: 432Publicati...

Reducere. The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic co...

An introductory book on the powerful topic of racial equality throughout history and the impact it has on our lives todayPublisher: Hachette Childr...

An introductory book on the powerful topic of racial equality throughout history and the impact it has on our lives todayPublisher: Hachette Childr...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in ...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his...