Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia, Paperback - Matthew J. Countryman

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...

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 the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African American...

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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 ...

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. What time do we live in? To gain perspective on what is happening now, we need to be aware of the roots and even the detours that have led us here....

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

Reducere. PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband slave trade. Anoth...

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. In the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across ...

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...

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Reducere. In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the...

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

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

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

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...

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

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their prope...

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

Publisher: Steidl PublishersIllustration(s): 83 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 291 x 298 x 22Cover...

Reducere. A collective biography about five influential leaders of the Civil Rights Era Part of a new series on the Civil Rights Movement for ages 12 to 15 f...

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

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

"In pointing us toward how to be 'better than we are, ' Gene Patterson--passionate, funny, sound of mind and full of heart--coincidentally reminds ...

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

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

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ruth ColkerIllustration(s): 1 tableNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x ...

Highly acclaimed dissection of the "new racism, " from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time Many in the United States, inclu...

Reducere. Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city's evolution from the pivotal p...

Reducere. The social, political, and legal struggles that made up the American civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century produced and refined a wide...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack Power studies have been dominated by the North American story, but after decades of scholarly neglect, the growth of "New Black Po...

Reducere. Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1969, Black Theology and Black Power provided the first systematic presentation of Black Theology, while also introdu...

Reducere. From natural areas and historic areas in and around Philadelphia to the Amish markets of Lancaster County; from historic battlefields at Valley For...

Reducere. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car--the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility--has always held particular importance for Afric...

Reducere. Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah...

Although he is best known as a mentor to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard Thurman was an exceptional philosopher and public intellectua...

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