We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program (2015 Edition)

The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discriminati...

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Extremist for Love: Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action

In an era where people are often sorted into the categories of 'thinker' and 'doer', Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stands ou...

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The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics)

Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth cent...

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Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement, Second Edition

The fiftieth anniversary of many major milestones in what is commonly called the African-American Civil Rights Movement was celebrated in ...

7:24 AM

What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South

An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over th...

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Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or...

4:53 AM

Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer

Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective biography of ...

6:09 AM

The People's Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from theCivil Rights Era to Today

Celebrated former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Dave Hoekstra unearths stories as he travels, tastes, and talks his way through 20 of Americ...

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When the Children Marched. The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement

Referred to as the "most segregated city in America," Birmingham, Alabama, became a hotbed for civil rights activity in the ear...

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But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle

Birmingham served as the stage for some of the most dramatic and important moments in the history of the civil rights struggle. In this v...

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Who Speaks for the Negro?

In 1964, Robert Penn Warren interviewed leaders, activists, and artists engaged in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. His interviewees incl...

6:57 AM

Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders

Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-defer...

6:03 AM

African American Connecticut Explored

The numerous essays by many of the state’s leading historians in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects begi...

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Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, and White Supremacy in Civil War–EraCharleston

“Ambitious and convincing. This is the first examination of the role of European immigrants in the most southern of U.S. cities and the w...

4:55 AM

Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives onMalcolm and Martin

Professors Baldwin and Al-Hadid, at Vanderbilt and Tennessee State Universities respectively, persuasively argue that El-Hajj Malik El-Sh...

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A Time to Break Silence. The King Legacy Series, Book 10

A Time to Break Silence presents Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most important writings and speeches—carefully selected by teachers across...

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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil RightsMovement

In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune." Then she began to sin...

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The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights andAnticolonialism, 1937-1955

“A fresh and engaging study that illuminates the important, related, yet neglected histories of the Southern Negro Youth Congress and the ...

6:15 AM

Origins of the Dream: Hughes's Poetry and King's Rhetoric

“Majestic. Grounded in astute interpretations of how speech acts function in history, this book is an exemplary model for future inquiries...

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From Sit-ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

In the wake of the fiftieth anniversary of the historic sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter by four North Carolina A&T college stu...

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