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  • The Ballad of Fiddling Tom Freeman

    Music, Moonshine, and Murder in Bug Tussle, Alabama

    A raw, firsthand account of feuds, fiddling, moonshining, and survival in a small Alabama town, told by its most colorful chronicler and shaped through careful historical insight.The Ballad of Fiddling Tom Freeman is a riveting portrait of a forgotten America, drawn from the handwritten memoirs of a bootlegger, fiddler, and chronicler of life in Bug Tussle, Alabama, in the first half of the ... Leer más

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  • Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi

    Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018

    Series series American Made Music Series
    In 2015 University Press of Mississippi published Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s by Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin to critical acclaim and commercial success. Roughly half of Mississippi’s rich, old-time fiddle tradition was documented in that volume and Harry Bolick has spent the intervening years working on this book, its sequel.Beginning with Tony Russell’s original mid ... Leer más

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    Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

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  • Hell Put to Shame

    The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

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  • Rising from the Rails

    Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class

    de Larry Tye ...
    An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights.George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars just as the Civil War was ending, and the offer of a steady job and the chance to see the world proved irresistible. Scores of former slaves signed up to serve as maid and ... Leer más

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  • Blood at the Root

    A Racial Cleansing in America

    "[A] vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America." —U.S. Congressman John LewisForsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young ... Leer más

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  • Black Gun, Silver Star

    The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

    de Art T. Burton ...
    Series series Race and Ethnicity in the American West
    In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the “most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country.” That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslaved in Arkansas and Texas made his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Black Gun, Silver Star sifts through fact and legend to discover the truth about one of the most outstanding peace officers in ... Leer más

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    A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Strugg

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  • Freedom by Any Means

    Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad

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  • Fire in a Canebrake

    The Last Mass Lynching in America

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    In the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore's Ford Lynching in Walton County, Georgia in 1946**—**the last mass lynching in America, fully explored here for the first time.July 25, 1946. In Walton County, Georgia, a mob of white men commit one of the most heinous racial crimes ... Leer más

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    Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis

    "All aspects of [Beale Street's] complex, fascinating history are told…with verve and vivid erudition." —Wall Street JournalBetween Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a strip with a unique soul that reshaped American culture. Preston Lauterbach recounts the rise and fall of Beale Street through the life of the South’s first black millionaire, an ex-slave who built ... Leer más

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