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  • Just Follow Me

    James Owens and the Integration of Southeastern Conference Football

    by Thom Gossom Jr., Sam Heys, Gloria Owens ...
    Series series Race and Sports
    In 1969, James Owens (1951–2016) made sports history as the first Black football player at Auburn University—a significant milestone that marked the beginning of the end of segregation in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Owens, a running back, was an exemplary athlete who battled racism and immense scrutiny during his time at Auburn. Yet his strength, his faith, and his family's support ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Still Running

    My Life as the First Black Football Player in the SEC

    by Nathaniel Northington, La Monte McNeese ...
    Series series Race and Sports
    More than fifty years ago, Nathaniel "Nate" Northington changed the face of sports as the first African American to play college football in the Southeastern Conference. When this trailblazing athlete stepped onto the field for the University of Kentucky vs. Ole Miss game on September 30, 1967, he played not only for his team, but for his best friend and roommate, Greg Page, whose tragic death ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State

    Revisiting My Old Kentucky Home

    Edited by Gerald L. Smith ...
    Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home" has been designated as the official state song and performed at the Kentucky Derby for decades. In light of the ongoing social justice movement to end racial inequality, many have questioned whether the song should be played at public events, given its inaccurate depiction of slavery in the state.In Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State, editor Gerald L ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • A Black Educator in the Segregated South

    Kentucky's Rufus B. Atwood

    by Gerald L. Smith ...
    Black college presidents in the era of segregation walked a tightrope. They were expected to educate black youth without sufficient state and federal funding. Yet in the African American community they were supposed to represent power and influence and to be outspoken advocates of civil rights, despite the continual risk of offending the white politicians on whom they were dependent for funding. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia

    Edited by Gerald L. Smith, Karen Cotton McDaniel, John A. Hardin ...
    The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth.The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches of politicians and community leaders as well as pioneers in art, science, and industry. Kentucky's impact ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Human Tradition in the New South

    by David L. Anderson, Paul K. Conkin, Cita Cook, S. Spencer Davis, Kathryn W. Kemp, William J. Marshall, John Ed Pearce, Rebecca Sharpless, Gerald L. Smith, Margaret Ripley Wolfe, John David Smith, Christopher Waldrep ...
    Series series The Human Tradition in America
    In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help to highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South.With ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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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

    $17.99 USD

  • To Drink from the Well

    The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University

    by Geeta N. Kapur ...
    Law professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of North Carolina.The University of North Carolina is the oldest public university in the US, with the cornerstone for the first dormitory, Old East, laid in 1793. At that ceremony, the enslaved people ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Road to Freedom

    A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

    by Charles E. Cobb Jr. ...
    This in-depth look at the civil rights movement goes to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathered in churches; where they spoke, taught, and organized; where they were arrested, where they lost their lives, and where they triumphed.Award-winning journalist Charles E. Cobb Jr., a former organizer and field secretary for SNCC (Student Nonviolent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Civil Rights in South Carolina

    From Peaceful Protests to Groundbreaking Rulings

    by James L. Felder ...
    The civil rights movement in South Carolina has an epic and tumultuous history, beginning with the very first statewide meeting of the NAACP in 1939.With stories of sit-ins, movements and the integration of state universities, this is the first comprehensive history of South Carolina's civil rights struggles. And behind every achievement are the major legal rulings that protected them, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • African American Lives

    Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham ...
    African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in ... Read more

    $29.69 USD