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  • For Us, the Living

    de Myrlie Evers Williams ...
    Series series Banner Books
    In 1967, when this brave book was first published, Myrlie Evers said, “Somewhere in Mississippi lives the man who murdered my husband.”Medgar Evers died in a horrifying act of political violence. Among both blacks and whites, the killing of this Mississippi civil rights leader intensified the menacing moods of unrest and discontent generated during the civil rights era. His death seemed to usher ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Autobiography of Medgar Evers

    A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches

    de Myrlie Evers-Williams, Manning Marable ...
    On the evening of June 12, 1963 -- the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance "Medgar Evers, the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet in his driveway. The still-smoking gun -- bearing the fingerprints of Byron De La Beckwith, a staunch white supremacist -- was recovered moments ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    de Harriet Jacobs, Dawn Lundy Martin ...
    “One of the major autobiographies of the African-American tradition.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.“It has been painful to me, in many ways, to recall the dreary years I passed in bondage. I would gladly forget them if I could. Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace; for with these gloomy recollections come tender memories of my good old grandmother, like light fleecy clouds floating over ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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  • Freedom Summer

    The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

    de Bruce Watson ...
    A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to ... Leer más

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  • This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

    How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

    de Charles E Cobb Jr. ...
    Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend's Montgomery, Alabama home as "an arsenal."Like King, many ostensibly "nonviolent" civil rights activists embraced ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Eyes on the Prize

    America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

    de Juan Williams ...
    Series series Eyes on the Prize
    Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v*. the Board of Education* case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series. ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • By Hands Now Known

    Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

    de Margaret A. Burnham ...
    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryWinner of the Hillman Prize for Book JournalismFinalist for the Kirkus Prize for NonfictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the Chicago Public Library • One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2022A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Spies of Mississippi

    The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement

    de Rick Bowers ...
    The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentous periods in American history.Author Rick Bowers has combed through primary-source materials and interviewed surviving activists named in once-secret files, as well as the writings and oral histories ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Past That Would Not Die

    de Walter Lord ...
    An account of the 1962 Ole Miss riots, sparked by one man's stance against segregation in the American South—by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of A Night to Remember ."[Lord's] account of the gathering storm at Oxford and Jackson is a marvel." — The New York TimesOn September 30, 1962, James H. Meredith matriculated a... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Hanging Bridge

    Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century

    de Jason Morgan Ward ...
    Lying just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers were murdered during Freedom Summer, Clarke County lay squarely in Mississippi's — and America's — meanest corner. Even at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured there. Fewer still remained. Local African Americans ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi

    A History

    de Michael Newton ...
    Since 1866 the Ku Klux Klan has been a significant force in Mississippi, enduring repeated cycles of expansion and decline. Klansmen have rallied, marched, elected civic leaders, infiltrated law enforcement, and committed crimes ranging from petty vandalism to assassination and mass murder. This is the definitive history of the KKK in Mississippi, long recognized as one of the group's most ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Selma's Bloody Sunday

    Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality

    de Robert A. Pratt ...
    Series series Witness to History
    "A fresh look at this historical crossroads which marked the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement . . . timely and engaging." —Patricia Sullivan, author of Justice RisingOn Sunday afternoon, March 7, 1965, roughly six hundred peaceful demonstrators set out from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in a double-file column to march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. Leading the march ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus