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“numan bartley”

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  • Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction

    by Numan Bartley, Hugh Davis Graham ...
    Originally published in 1975. This is a history of southern political life since the New Deal and World War II, encompassing a crucial epoch: an attempted Second Reconstruction of the South. The authors focus on the electoral response to candidates and issues. The authors contend that, despite the nationalizing and homogenizing forces that eroded much of the South's distinctiveness during the ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

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  • The Struggle for Black Equality

    by Harvard Sitkoff ...
    The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Protest at Selma

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    by David J. Garrow ...
    A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the CrossVivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow's account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that ... Read more

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  • White Flight

    Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

    by Kevin M. Kruse ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Brown v. Board of Education

    A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A History of America in Ten Strikes

    by Erik Loomis ...
    **Recommended by The Nation, the New Republic, Current Affairs, Bustle, In These TimesAn "entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued" ( The Nation) account of ten moments when workers fought to change the balance of power in America"A brilliantly recounted American history through the prism of major labor struggles, with critically important lessons for those who seek a better future for ... Read more

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  • Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement

    by Jack M. Bloom ...
    Revised and updated: the award-winning historical analysis of the civil rights movement examining the interplay of race and class in the American South.In Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement, sociologist Jack M. Bloom explains what the civil rights movement was about, why it was successful, and why it fell short of some of its objectives. With a unique sociohistorical analysis, he argues ... Read more

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  • The War on Drugs

    A History

    by David Farber ...
    Essays offering a revealing look at the history and legacy of the "War on Drugs" in the United States.Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million people have been arrested annually on drug charges—most of them involving cannabis—and nearly 500,000 ... Read more

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  • The Movement

    The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • American Tax Resisters

    by Romain D. Huret ...
    “The American taxpayer”—angered by government waste and satisfied only with spending cuts—has preoccupied elected officials and political commentators since the Reagan Revolution. But resistance to progressive taxation has older, deeper roots. American Tax Resisters presents the full history of the American anti-tax movement that has defended the pursuit of limited taxes on wealth and battled ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The March on Washington

    Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights

    by William P. Jones ...
    "Vivid and moving…[Tells] a story all but lost in most civil rights histories." —Bill Marvel, Dallas Morning NewsIt was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr. lifted the crowd when he told of his dream that all Americans would join together to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Civil Rights Movement in America

    Edited by Charles W. Eagles ...
    The Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its accomplishments and shortcomings. Its profound effect upon modern America has so greatly changed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD