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  • 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

  • We Shall Not Be Moved

    The Desegregation of the University of Georgia

    de Robert A. Pratt ...
    In September 1950, Horace Ward, an African American student from La Grange, Georgia, applied to law school at the University of Georgia. Despite his impressive academic record, Ward received a reply—in reality, a bribe—from one of the university's top officials offering him financial assistance if he would attend an out-of-state law school. Ward, outraged at the unfairness of the proposition and ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

  • Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves

    Seven Commentaries on Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii"

    de Karl Young, Robert A. Pratt ...
    In volume 1 of Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves (Georgia, 1997), Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler presented authoritative versions of three medieval texts invoked by Jankyn (fifth husband of the Wife of Bath) in The Canterbury Tales. In Jankyn’s Book, volume 2, Lawler and Hanna revisit one of those texts by way of presenting all the known contemporary commentaries on it.The text is Walter Map’s ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

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  • 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

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Protest at Selma

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Freedom's Main Line

    The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides

    de Derek Charles Catsam ...
    "A compelling, spellbinding examination of a pivotal event in civil rights history . . . a highly readable and dramatic account of a major turning point." — Journal of African-American HistoryBlack Americans in the Jim Crow South could not escape the grim reality of racial segregation, whether enforced by law or by custom. In Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mississippi Politics

    The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008, Second Edition

    de Jere Nash, Andy Taggart ...
    Originally published in 2006, Mississippi Politics quickly became the definitive work on the state's recent political history, campaigns, legislative battles, and litigation, as well as how Mississippi shaped and was shaped by national and regional trends.A central theme of the 2006 edition was the state's gradual transition from a Democratic surety to a Republican stronghold. For this updated ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement

    de Christopher M. Richardson, Ralph E. Luker ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    The fiftieth anniversary of many major milestones in what is commonly called the African-American Civil Rights Movement was celebrated in 2013. Fifty years removed from the Birmingham campaign, the assassination of Medgar Evers, and the March on Washington and it is clear that the sacrifices borne by those generations in that decade were not in vain. Monuments, museums, and exhibitions across the ... Leer más

    $186.99 USD

  • A History of the Civil Rights Movement

    de M. LaVora Perry ...
    Series series Major Black Contributions from Emancipat
    "The arc of the moral universe is long," Martin Luther King Jr. once observed, "but it bends toward justice." In this book, you'll read about many courageous people—including Dr. King himself—who worked for justice during the long struggle for African-American civil rights. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Freedom Riders

    1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    de Raymond Arsenault ...
    The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders, Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Last Call

    The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

    de Daniel Okrent ...
    A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • 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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