Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina, Paperback - James L. Leloudis

Reducere. America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

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...

There are over 80, 000 people on probation in North Carolina. This book sets out the law and procedure of how probation officers and the court syst...

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

Reducere. In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the...

Reducere. The struggle for control of the eastern waters of North Carolina duringthe War Between the States was a bitter, painful, and sometimeshumiliating o...

Reducere. DescriptionMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

Reducere. James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Bor...

Reducere. Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest in check and how Black activ...

Reducere. When Wilbur and Orville Wright arrived on North Carolina's Outer Banks in the year 1900, they were unknown bicycle mechanics who dreamed of powered...

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

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...

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380, ...

A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rig...

This book provides a general description of social services agencies and programs in North Carolina and the state and federal laws that affect them...

Weaving together biography and political history, Michael Woods restores Jefferson Davis and Stephen Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers...

Reducere. Designed primarily for field study, this book introduces the variety of species living in our diverse coastal setting, from sand dunes to salt mars...

Reducere. As the first comprehensive study of one state's federal district courts during the long civil rights movement, The Slow Undoing argues for a recons...

Reducere. In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of countr...

Reducere. Originally published in 1992, A History of African Americans in North Carolina was the first one-volume survey of black history in the state. It tr...

Reducere. Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to...

Reducere. In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was ...

Reducere. Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid cris...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melissa L. CooperDuring the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections be...

Reducere. An award-winning constitutional law historian examines case-based evidence that reveals the Supreme Court's longstanding support for white supremac...

Reducere. DescriptionIn The Turnout Gap, Bernard L. Fraga offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the causes and consequences of racial and ethnic ...

Reducere. In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most im...

In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the uniq...

Reducere. In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used pho...

Reducere. Examines the history of James City, a black community located near New Bern. Established in 1863 as a camp for destitute former slaves, James City ...

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

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

In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast arra...

Reducere. One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground st...

Reducere. Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, po...

Reducere. Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--th...

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...

During the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared. In 1991, the new civilian governme...

Awards🏆Winner (2005) - Washington State Book Award - (Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: Nikhil Pal SinghDespite black gains in modern America, the...

Reducere. From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2, 300 former African American slaves. These narra...

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

Reducere. For Such a Time as This is a must-read for anyone disheartened over America's slide into a moral "cesspool of sin." The compelling story of Jim For...

Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle f...

Reducere. While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City, " it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change i...

Reducere. DescriptionC. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a sing...

Reducere. Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, h...

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. Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta campaign. Confederate forces under John...