The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee, Paperback

Reducere. Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to...

Publisher: VadpressNumber of pages: 156Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Ozzy Ronny Partha...

In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the uniq...

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

Reducere. Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681, 790 to just 45, 594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, h...

Reducere. This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, li...

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

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

Reducere. In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had...

An African American Dilemma offers the first social history of northern Black debates over school integration versus separation from the 1840s to t...

Reducere. DescriptionThe son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of segregation early in life. Inspired by the words of Dr. Mart...

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

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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...

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

Reducere. When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turne...

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

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

Reducere. DescriptionNamed to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 The Newspaper Boy is a remarkable collection of memories and personal reflections of the deep...

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

Reducere. A biography of John Lewis, one of the "Big Six" civil rights leaders of the 1960s, focusing on his involvement in Freedom Rides, the March on Washi...

Reducere. Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest in check and how Black activ...

DescriptionThe history of America's civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again. This has relegated many key ...

DescriptionTraces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of...

Reducere. DescriptionRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle Nominated for a 2019 NAACP image award, a groundbreak...

Reducere. America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

Reducere. While Florida is rarely considered a traditional southern state, its history of race relations reveals otherwise. This study of the civil rights mo...

From the drama of blockade-running to graphic descriptions of battles on the state's islands and sounds, this book portrays the explosive events th...

Reducere. DescriptionUnderstanding race in America--its history of oppression, inequality, inequity, prejudice, and discrimination--has been a journey for ma...

Reducere. The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, I have a dream that my four little children ...

Freedom in the World is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The methodology of this survey ...

Reducere. Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil rights movement, ...

Reducere. As the first comprehensive study of one state's federal district courts during the long civil rights movement, The Slow Undoing argues for a recons...