The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in theJim Crow South

In this gripping saga of race and retribution, Alex Heard (editorial director of Outside magazine) tells a moving and unforgettable story...

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Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life

Viewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of ea...

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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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Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare

This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Lu...

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Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in GreatMigration Philadelphia

During the early twentieth century, millions of southern blacks moved north to escape the violent racism of the Jim Crow South and to find...

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After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South

“Is there really anything new to say about Reconstruction? The excellent contributions to this volume make it clear that the answer is a ...

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To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville

What defines a city's public space? Who designates such areas, who determines their uses, and who gets to use them? Today's "...

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Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning FamiliesSince Reconstruction

This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essa...

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Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, BlackSoutherners, and College Campuses

Nowhere else can one read about how "Brown v. Board of Education" transformed higher education on campus after campus, in state...

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A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activistsin the Jim Crow South

In the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century a small group of women overcame personal and professional hardships to gain nati...

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The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in United States History

Highlighting the efforts of both blacks and whites to promote racial equality in the face of violent attempts to preserve white supremacy,...

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Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle

This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episode...

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The Strange Career of Jim Crow

C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for...

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Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision

Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that mandated the desegregation of U.S. schools, is popularly seen as a hall...

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The Jim Crow Era (African-American History)

Gr 4-6-There are some admirable qualities to these titles-use of primary source documents, follow-up questions, and "Stop and Think...

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Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep Southafter the Civil War

Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, creat...

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Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till

No modern tragedy has had a greater impact on race relations in America than the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. A 14-year-old blac...

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Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America

Paul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced Sout...

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To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South

This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, ...

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To Thee I See: From picking in the fields of Texas to cooking for dignitaries on U.S. Navy ships, a journey I wouldn't change

In the story To Thee I See: From picking in the fields of Texas to cooking for dignitaries on U.S. Navy ships, a journey I wouldn't ch...

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