Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights, Paperback - Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Reducere. Description"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides ...

Reducere. The civil rights movement was defined by figures thrust into positions of importance; be they participants in a sit-in, Freedom Riders, or marchers...

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

In 1961, 16-year-old Brenda Travis was a youth leader of the NAACP branch in her hometown of McComb, Mississippi. She joined in the early stages of...

Reducere. An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl o...

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

Reducere. DescriptionSyleena Johnson's highly anticipated self-help book, The Weight Is Over, shares her compelling and painful journey toward self-love and ...

His love affair with pop music blossomed alongside the music itself, which exploded into being in the mid-1950s and came to embody the iconoclastic...

Reducere. The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit The Three Death Se...

Reducere. How would you fight to keep your dream alive? In this relatable true story, award-winning journalist Nita Wiggins reveals the abuses that happen of...

Reducere. In the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Fuller Seminary theologian William Pannell decried the then-popular sentiment among white evangelicals t...

How do we know about the thousands of people who marched in campaigns for civil rights for African Americans in the 1960s? It includes information ...

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Reducere. Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the on...

The first African American to win the world heavyweight championship, Jack Johnson (1878-1946) was the preeminent American sports personality of hi...

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

Reducere. Including Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, read the stories of the amazing men an...

Reducere. Describes the experiences of young Blacks who were involved in significant events in the civil rights movement, including Brown vs. Board of Educat...

Publisher: Swift PressAuthor(s): Ceridwen DoveyNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 199 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Desmond MeadeNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 220 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. This book explores the life of one of Mississippi's greatest civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brinkmanship and h...

Reducere. The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws th...

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Reducere. In a revelatory work praised as "excellent and timely" (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes...

Reducere. 2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau o...

Reducere. A personal history of the civil rights movement from activist and acclaimed journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million peop...

Reducere. 2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau o...

Reducere. Listen to a short interview with Risa GoluboffHost: Chris Gondek - Producer: Heron & CraneIn this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a pr...

The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks f...

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The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement can be traced back to slavery and the Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution gave Afric...

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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...

"Kennedy and King is an unqualified masterpiece of historical narrative.... A landmark achievement."---Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling...

Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Childr...

Reducere. After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the civil rights struggles of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Many of thei...

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This volume sheds light on how to construe the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, bel...

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

Reducere. Robert Hilliker was born in the southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, in the late 1920's, just before the Great Depression of 1929 and the 1930's. ...

Inspired by a 1968 US Commission on Civil Rights six-day hearing in San Antonio that introduced the Mexican American people to the rest of the nati...