Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A., Paperback - Eduardo Obregon Pagan

Reducere. The notorious 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the allege...

September 1940: the height of the Blitz. When The Savoy advertises its very safe series underground shelters it is discovered after one night of ra...

Clandestine affairs, furtive goings-on and conspiracies against the government: Coburg must tread very lightly indeed ...Publisher: Allison & Busby...

September 1940: the height of the Blitz. When The Savoy advertises its very safe series underground shelters it is discovered after one night of ra...

"You have taken our civil rights--we want our human rights." On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary...

DescriptionOne of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)-...

Reducere. During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive p...

DescriptionOne of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal (2012-18)-...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Scott EllsworthForeword by: John Hope FranklinWhen a crows began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the even...

Reducere. During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place w...

Reducere. "The origins of the Chicago race riot of 1919 are to be found, not in high-level policy, but in gut-level animosities between black and white peopl...

Publisher: Troubador PublishingAuthor(s): Lindsay CampbellNumber of pages: 120Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 208 x 11Cover type: Paperback...

Learn about the most important armoured vehicles made in Hungary. Describes the combats in which Hungarian units fought until the end of the war.

Armistice Day 1940. A young man, Terry Watson, has been found in a back-yard Anderson shelter, battered about the head, and with two white poppies ...

When a dock worker is found murdered, DI Jago uncovers a web of secrets about family, war and the British Empire.Publisher: Allison & BusbyAuthor(s...

The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains.Publisher: Verso BooksIllustration(s): 36 BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Atlanta was regarded as the gateway to the new, enlightened and racially progressive South. White busine...

Among the debris of the night raid, the body of a young woman is found. She has been strangled. As D.I. Jago investigates, he discovers a web of de...

Dark City is the first book to explore how London became a criminals' paradise during the Second World War

The press dispatches of October 1, 1919, heralded the news that another race riot had taken place the night before in Elaine, Ark., and that it was...

Reducere. An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American historyIn May 1866, just a year after the Civil Wa...

Armistice Day 1940. A young man, Terry Watson, has been found in a back-yard Anderson shelter, battered about the head, and with two white poppies ...

A wartime saga that highlights the role of women at Kew Gardens, licensed publishing with heritage brand Kew GardensPublisher: Orion Publishing CoA...

The Woolworth girls take up the war effort in this continuation of the series, with Elaine Everest's novels about British brands looking set to con...

Reducere. Award NameOklahoma Book AwardAward categoryNonfictionThe 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty ...

Not least new deputy store manager, Henry Masters, whose arrival has consequences that Flo and her workmates could never have foreseen.But there is...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading"Lurid flames roared and belched and licke...

Reducere. In highly-segregated Tulsa, Oklahoma in June, 1921, a white mob attacked the mostly Black neighborhood of Greenwood. Hundreds of people were killed...

Reducere. Based in Atlanta, Georgia the world of antiquarian and collectible bookselling is exposed as a hotbed of collectors and booksellers who will do alm...

Reducere. In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was ov...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Originally published in 2009, the revised edition includes a foreword by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Chair of the North Carolina African American Heri...