Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920-1945, Paperback - Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy

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Explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the first half of the 20th...

A multidisciplinary examination of Memphis's role in African American history during the 20th-century.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyIl...

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Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Brooks E. HefnerIllustration(s): 15 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 248Publication ...

DescriptionA fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politicsFollowing the Algerian war ...

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Exploring a diverse range of plays, novels, essays, poetry, and reportage, this book shows how Claudia Jones, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, ...

Reducere. Many people believe that racism and discrimination against those of African descent was primarily an American experience. However, this book dispel...

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

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November 1920. Ireland is in the middle of a war for independence. One Sunday, events come to a head and an exciting football match turns into a su...

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Amid the rising nationalism and racial politics that culminated in World War II, European countries wishing to 'purify' their nations often forced ...

Fans of Ally Carter's Heist Society novels will love this teen mystery/thriller with sarcastic wit, a hint of romance, and Ocean's Eleven-inspired ...

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Publisher: University of Illinois PressNumber of pages: 360Collection: History of CommunicationPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 39Cove...

An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your...

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Reducere. Entering World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a st...

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves es...

Hideyoshi-peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japan-is the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best known...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on F...

Reducere. DescriptionOn June 6, 1944, Werner T. Angress parachuted down from a C-47 into German-occupied France with the 82nd Airborne Division. Nine days la...

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The Doctor's Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rewriting of Flaubert's Madame Bovary in which she explores her frustrated heroine's sense of entrapm...

DescriptionMary Elizabeth Marlow writes about her studies and travels with the Native American visionary, Joseph Rael, and invites us into the deep...