Race in the American South. From Slavery to Civil Rights, Paperback - David Brown

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

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Reducere. Since the earliest days of slavery, African Americans have called on their religious faith in the struggle against oppression. In this book the Bea...

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Pulitzer PrizeThis is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people...

Reducere. Winner of the Alice Hanson Jones Prize, Economic History AssociationA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe civil rights movement was al...

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

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

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Awards🏆Winner (2002) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: David W. BlightNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America'...

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An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labour

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An introductory book on the powerful topic of slavery and the impact that it has on our lives todayPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): C...

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A landmark history of the rise, abolition, and legacy of slavery in the New World.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Robin BlackburnNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped as a child from his village in Africa and shipped to America to begin life as a slave. This book recounts his amazing...

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...

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...

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Exploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day-from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles WhiteP...