Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital, Hardcover - Joan Quigley

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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"Marlon Bundo is the adorable bunny that should bring us all together."-- PARENTS.COM "The rabbit's romp through Washington takes him to places mea...

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...

From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for th...

Reducere. Affectionately called Woodies" by loyal Washingtonians, the beloved department store Woodward & Lothrop stood at the heart of downtown for over a c...

Reducere. The 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule was the most significant federal effort to increase equality of access to place-based resources...

Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winnerJulian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up Over the past two decades, environmental racism has...

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

Reducere. Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a career...

Reducere. "A story of daring in a time of great danger ... of two unknown heroes working for justice."--Dennis Flannigan, Washington State Representative, 20...

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

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. Here, a leading black Catholic moral theologian addresses the thorny issue of racial justice past and present. Massingale writes from an abiding co...

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

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

Reducere. "We Who Believe in Freedom: Activism and the Struggle for Social Justice" is an inspirational book that exposes readers to weighty topics such as p...

Reducere. Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire military situation. Its forces were badly outnumbered, the...

Re-defining the university as the site of colonial and racial injustice, this collection examines the numerous ways in which racialized and Indigen...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Rita (Assisstant Professor, University of Iowa) ZajaczIllustration(s): 4 b 8 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of...

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

Reducere. 20-25% of Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental illness. Divorce is epidemic. Abuse of all kinds is rampant. Suicidality is at an all-time hig...

Reducere. In this definitive portrait of the political and social life of Georgetown, bestselling biographer C. David Heymann chronicles the dinner parties, ...

Publisher: Simon & SchusterAuthor(s): Todd BrewsterNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 402 x 236 x 34Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

Reducere. Something Happened in Our Town describes a traumatic event--a police shooting--from the perspective of a White family and an African American famil...

Reducere. Iran thundered onto the world stage in 1979 with an Islamic revolution that shook the world. Today that revolution has gone astray, a popular democ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Greg SchrockIllustration(s): 14 b&w illustrations, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 248Publication date:...

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Reducere. The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom examines the movements led by Father Divine, Charles Mas...