Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835

In 1835, the city of Washington pulsed with change. As newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, free blacks outnumbered sla...

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A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America

A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the sl...

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Arise Ye Starvelings: The Jamaican Labour Rebellion of 1938 and its Aftermath

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All Hell Broke Loose: American Race Riots from the Progressive Era through World War II

While racially motivated riot violence certainly existed in the United States both before and after the Progressive Era through World War ...

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Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change

For a long time now, Africa’s political landscape has been wracked by violence. In recent years, however, a more positive force has risen ...

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The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots

Helicopters thwopped low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beat...

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1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back

1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after ...

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States of Siege: U.S. Prison Riots, 1971-1986

This book examines case studies of recent prison riots in five states, including the 1971 radical uprising in Attica, New York, and the in...

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Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots': Race, Seeing, and Resistance

Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots' explores the meanings one news organization found in the landmark events of 1992, as well as tho...

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Holocaust in the Homeland: Black Wall Street's Last Days

Holocaust in the Homeland tells the story of one of the darkest days in US history. Envious locals in Tulsa dubbed the Greenwood section ...

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Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

When a crows began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of May 31, 1921., the fate of one of its prisoners, a you...

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Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

The dramatic and first popular account of one of the deadliest racial confrontations in the 20th century—in East St. Louis in the summer o...

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Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810

James Sidbury's Ploughshares into Swords places the enslaved population of Virginia squarely within the emerging Atlantic world cultur...

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Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South

On July 8, 1860, fire destroyed the entire business section of Dallas, Texas. At about the same time, two other fires damaged towns near...

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Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations

In 1906 Atlanta, after a summer of inflammatory headlines and accusations of black-on-white sexual assaults, armed white mobs attacked Afr...

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Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles

American society has been long plagued by cycles of racial violence, most dramatically in the 1960s when hundreds of ghetto uprisings erup...

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The Slave's Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature

Episodes of slave rebellions such as Nat Turner’s are central to speculations on the trajectory of black history and the goal of black spi...

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War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion

In this book Durrill describes in graphic detail the disintegration, during the Civil War, of Southern plantation society in a North Carol...

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Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction

No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the largest southern city a...

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Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North

When four young men, slaves on Edward Gorsuch's Maryland farm, escaped to rural Pennsylvania in 1849, the owner swore he'd bring t...

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