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  • Black Citizens and American Democracy

    Fighting for the Soul of a Nation

    Edited by Reginald K. Ellis, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Peter B. Levy ...
    How Black activism has helped achieve and maintain democracy for all AmericansIn 2020, Black Americans continued a centuries-long pursuit of racial equality and justice in the streets and at the polls. Arguing that this year was not a deviation from the historic Civil Rights Movement, the contributors to this collection examine the important work of Black men and women during the previous decades ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The New Left and Labor in 1960s

    by Peter B. Levy ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    It is a powerful story: the relationship between the 1960s New Left and organized labor was summed up by hardhats confronting students and others over US involvement in Vietnam. But the real story goes beyond the "Love It or Leave It" signs and melees involving blue-collar types attacking protesters.Peter B. Levy challenges these images by exploring the complex relationship between the two groups. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Civil Rights Movement

    A Reference Guide

    by Peter B. Levy ...
    Series series Guides to Historic Events in America
    Drawing on the most recent scholarship, The Civil Rights Movement provides a concise overview of the most important social movement of the 20th century and will expand readers' understanding of the fight for racial equality.Ideal for research, this one-stop reference provides a unique introduction to the Civil Rights Movement as it includes its development, issues, and leaders. Six essays capture ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest

    New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America

    Edited by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Reginald K. Ellis, Peter B. Levy ...
    Series series Southern Dissent
    This volume's contributors expand the chronology and geography of the black freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the Jim Crow South and the years between 1954 and 1968. Beginning as far back as the nineteenth century, and analyzing case studies from southern, northern, and border states, the essays in The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest incorporate communities and topics not ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Great Uprising

    Race Riots in Urban America during the 1960s

    by Peter B. Levy ...
    Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations, emphasizing that these riots must be placed within historical context to be properly ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Civil Rights Movement in America

    From Black Nationalism to the Women's Political Council

    Edited by Peter B. Levy ...
    Series series Movements of the American Mosaic
    This single-volume work provides a concise, up-to-date, and reliable reference work that students, teachers, and general readers can turn to for a comprehensive overview of the civil rights movement-a period of time incorporating events that shaped today's society.This single volume encyclopedia not only provides accessible A–Z entries about the well-known people and events of the Civil Rights ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • A More Beautiful and Terrible History

    The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

    by Jeanne Theoharis ...
    This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • I've Got the Light of Freedom

    The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface

    by Charles M. Payne ...
    This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • To Make Our World Anew

    A History of African Americans

    Edited by Robin D. G. Kelley, Earl Lewis ...
    Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is a panoramic view of African American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • The New Civil Rights Movement Reader

    Resistance, Resilience, and Justice

    Edited by Traci Parker, Marcia Walker-McWilliams ...
    In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many voices, among them, working people, charismatic activists, musicians and artists, the LGBTQIA community, veterans, suburbanites, and elected officials. Moving from the labor struggles of the 1930s to the sit-ins and boycotts of midcentury, and the Black ... Read more

    $22.39 USD