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  • A Carpetbagger in Reverse

    Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman

    Series series The Modern South
    From Alabama to Congress—Arthur W. Mitchell’s fight for justice rewrote the rules of Black political power.A Carpetbagger in Reverse offers a landmark reassessment of the life, career, and accomplishments of groundbreaking Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell, the first Black Democrat elected to Congress and the only Black member of Congress during his four terms of service from 1935 to 1943.Born to ... Leer más

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  • Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

    A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY • An “important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant” (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their wayAmerican freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the ... Leer más

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  • Chocolate City

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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Woodrow Wilson

    The Light Withdrawn

    An “assiduously researched” (The Wall Street Journal), “powerful...dispassionate new biography” (The Christian Science Monitor) of Woodrow Wilson, focused on his role in the long national struggle for racial equality and women’s voting rights.More than a century after his death, Woodrow Wilson’s influence on American politics remains strong while his contradictions loom larger than ever. With ... Leer más

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  • Alabama v. King

    Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement

    "Poignant, sometimes harrowing." –Wall Street JournalThe defense lawyer for Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, the Selma marchers, and other civil rights heroes reveals the true story of the historic trial that made Dr. King a national hero.Fred D. Gray was just twenty-four years old when he became the defense lawyer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young minister who had become the face of ... Leer más

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  • Fraud of the Century

    Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876

    Series series A Political Memoir Bestseller
    In this major work of popular history and scholarship, acclaimed historian and biographer Roy Morris, Jr, tells the extraordinary story of how, in America’s centennial year, the presidency was stolen, the Civil War was almost reignited, and Black Americans were consigned to nearly ninety years of legalized segregation in the South.The bitter 1876 contest between Ohio Republican governor Rutherford ... Leer más

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  • A Dreadful Deceit

    The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

    In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color ... Leer más

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  • Marshalling Justice

    The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall

    "[An] important collection….Michael G. Long deserves high praise indeed for unearthing [Marshall's letters] and bringing them to light."—Wil HaygoodCollected together for the first time in Marshalling Justice, here are selected letters written by one of the most influential and important activists in the American Civil Rights movement: the brilliant legal mind and footsoldier for justice and ... Leer más

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  • Been There, Done That

    How Our History Shows What We Can Overcome

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    Professor Greg Jackson, podcast host of History That Doesn’t Suck, proves that while today’s political climate may be dark, these aren’t as unprecedented times as we may think.Our nation’s past is full of massive upheaval, disagreement, and departures from the moral high ground. The political gentlemanly conduct of yesteryear is no more than a myth. But that reality never allowed our worst ... Leer más

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  • Lest We Forget

    The Passage from Africa into the Twenty-First Century

    An intimate look at centuries of black history in America with exclusive accounts, photographs, newspaper reproductions, and other documents.One of The Root 's Favorite Reads of 2019Presented in three parts— Lest We Forget, Freedom's Children, and We Shall Not Be Moved—this volume brings African American history to vivid and illustrated life. It includes:Lest We Forget: Based on mat... ... Leer más

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  • The Gentleman Boss

    de Thomas Reeves ...
    “ ‘Chet’ Arthur President of the United States. Good God!” was perhaps the most pithy contemporary reaction to the accession of the twenty-first Chief Executive. It has certainly been the most enduring, even though Arthur himself has remained an enigma—in large part because this shrewd, secretive New Yorker saw to it that many of his private papers were destroyed shortly before he died. Drawing on ... Leer más

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  • Reaping the Whirlwind

    Bringing us close to the complex history of the civil rights movement in the American South—the currents that involved thousands of communities and millions of individual lives—this book looks deeply into the experiences of a single Alabama town, Tuskegee, and its surrounding Macon County. It is based on interviews with the people—white and black, liberal and traditional—whose lives were caught up ... Leer más

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