The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972, Hardcover - Leonard N. Moore

Reducere. In March of 1972, civil rights activists and black power leaders met for three days in Gary, Indiana, looking to end their intense four-year feud t...

The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and se...

Reducere. In this exceedingly timely book, Louis Moore looks at the history of Black activist athletes and the important role of the Black community in insis...

Reducere. Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five years, mostly to white people. Drawing on decades of experience in the classroom and ...

Reducere. In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with t...

Reducere. Up South traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians to turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity f...

Reducere. The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off...

Reducere. Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black Studies Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Bl...

Reducere. Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers of the civil rights era. During the course of his work, he took thou...

DescriptionIn this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, ...

Reducere. In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the righ...

DescriptionA warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politicsIn We...

Reducere. Between 1965 and 1972, African American students at upwards of a thousand historically black and white American colleges and universities organized...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass...

The first book to comprehensively examine how the Black Panther Party has directly shaped the practices and ideas that have animated grassroots act...

Reducere. It's hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for African Americans. Before the Civil War, masters confined their ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Julius B. Fleming Jr.Illustration(s): 12 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Performanc...

DescriptionIn this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, ...

Reducere. Mary Church Terrell was an icon in the civil rights movement, advocating for equality and social justice for black women through a lifetime of camp...

Reducere. AwardsOregon Book AwardsDescriptionThrough much of the twentieth century, black Seattle was synonymous with the Central District--a four-square-mil...

Since the first day after the tragedy was announced, controversy has surrounded the death of rap and cultural icon Tupac Shakur. In this work, pree...

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

Reducere. What Is Color? Something That Eye Perceives? Way To Express Emotion? To Feel Emotion? To Create Art? Or a Marking That Makes Us Unwanted?"The beaut...

Reducere. Volume 2 of Double Exposure commemorates the ongoing fight to fulfil the promise of freedom and equality for all American citizens, from the Civil ...

Reducere. Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far fr...

1967. Two rival football teams. Two legendary coaches. Two talented quarterbacks. Together they broke the color line, revolutionized college sports...

This book gives insight into a particularly grim period during the early 1970s in Northern Ireland using an extremely unusual episode--the black ma...

Reducere. In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane...

This volume in the Issues in Historiography series examines the changing scholarly debate on individuals and events in African American history fro...

Reducere. Today, the NBA is around 74% Black but, when basketball first started to catch on, it wasn't easy for Black people to play. They couldn't enter seg...

Reducere. This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "buying power" and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, c...