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  • Turn Away Thy Son

    Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation

    by Elizabeth Jacoway ...
    Series series Bestselling US History
    An eye-opening, meticulously researched work by a Little Rock native that reveals the story behind the headlines of the famous, school desegregation crisis through thirty years worth of research and interviews.In September 1957, the nation was transfixed by nine Black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • No Straight Path

    Becoming Women Historians

    by Stephanie R. Rolph, Beverly Bond, Emily Clark, Sylvia R. Frey, Gail Murray, Elizabeth Payne, Shelia Skemp, Janann Sherman, Martha H. Swain, Pamela Tyler ...
    No Straight Path tells the stories of ten successful female historians who came of age in an era when it was unusual for women to pursue careers in academia, especially in the field of history. These first-person accounts illuminate the experiences women of the post–World War II generation encountered when they chose to enter this male-dominated professional world.None of the contributors took a ... Read more

    Was $40.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Arkansas Women

    Their Lives and Times

    by Gary T. Edwards, Michael B. Dougan, Dianna Fraley, Rebecca Howard, Elizabeth Jacoway, Kelly Houston Jones, John Kirk, Marianne Leung, Rachel Reynolds Luster0, Loretta McGregor1, Michael Pierce2, Debra Reid3, Yulonda Eadie Sano4, Sonia Toudji5, Sarah Wilkerson Freeman6 ...
    Series series
    Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women’s experiences across time and space from the state’s earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this collection of fifteen biographical essays productively complicates Arkansas history by providing a multidimensional focus on women, with a particular ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • There Goes My Everything

    White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975

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    During the civil rights movement, epic battles for justice were fought in the streets, at lunch counters, and in the classrooms of the American South. Just as many battles were waged, however, in the hearts and minds of ordinary white southerners whose world became unrecognizable to them. Jason Sokol’s vivid and unprecedented account of white southerners’ attitudes and actions, related in their ... Read more

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  • Chocolate City

    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove ...
    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Read more

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  • Mississippi Black History Makers

    by George A. Sewell, Margaret L. Dwight ...
    This new edition of biographical sketches of notable blacks from Mississippi expands the edition published in 1977. A total of 166 figures are included in this new printing, all of them persons who have, by the authors' comprehensive survey, "made significant contributions in bringing about the uplift of the black race."Black history makers are defined herein as those who have achieved national ... Read more

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  • The Race Beat

    The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff ...
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  • Cutting Along the Color Line

    Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America

    by Quincy T. Mills ...
    Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and even after the Civil War, black barbers endured a measure of social stigma for perpetuating ... Read more

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  • White Trash

    The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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  • Bearing the Cross

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    by David J. Garrow ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr.In this monumental account of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., professor and historian David Garrow traces King's evolution from young pastor who spearheaded the 1955–56 bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama, to inspirational leader of America's civil rights movement. Based on extensive research and more than seven ... Read more

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  • A Shining Thread of Hope

    The History of Black Women in America

    by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson ...
    At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of ... Read more

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