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  • Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South

    Louisville, Kentucky, 1945–1980

    Series series Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
    A noted civil rights historian examines Louisville as a cultural border city where the black freedom struggle combined northern and southern tactics.Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, represents a cultural and geographical intersection of North and South. This border identity has shaped the city's race relations throughout its history. Louisville's black citizens did ... Leer más

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  • From Brown to Meredith

    The Long Struggle for School Desegregation in Louisville, Kentucky, 1954-2007

    When the Supreme Court overturned Louisville’s local desegregation plan in 2007, the people of Jefferson County, Kentucky, faced the question of whether and how to maintain racial diversity in their schools. This debate came at a time when scholars, pundits, and much of the public had declared school integration a failed experiment rightfully abandoned. Using oral history narratives, newspaper ... Leer más

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  • To Live Peaceably Together

    The American Friends Service Committee's Campaign for Open Housing

    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    A groundbreaking look at how a predominantly white faith-based group reset the terms of the fight to integrate US cities.The bitterly tangled webs of race and housing in the postwar United States hardly suffer from a lack of scholarly attention. But Tracy K’Meyer’s To Live Peaceably Together delivers something truly new to the field: a lively examination of a predominantly white faith-based group ... Leer más

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  • Freedom on the Border

    An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky

    Series series Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series
    Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserved thanks to the dozens of civil rights activists across Kentucky who shared their memories in the wide-ranging oral history project from which this volume arose. Through their collective memories and the efforts of a new generation of historians, the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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    To Live Peaceably Together

    The American Friends Service Committee’s Campaign for Open Housing

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    A groundbreaking look at how a predominantly white faith-based group reset the terms of the fight to integrate US cities.The bitterly tangled webs of race and housing in the postwar United States hardly suffer from a lack of scholarly attention. But Tracy K’Meyer’s To Live Peaceably Together delivers something truly new to the field: a lively examination of a predominantly white faith-based group ... Leer más

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  • What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

    An antidote to bigotry and a "perfect primer for readers seeking factual, realistic portrayals of the rural and working-class experience" ( Los Angeles Times).In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working-class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment ... Leer más

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  • The Struggle for Black Equality

    The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition ... Leer más

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  • The Black History of the White House

    Series series City Lights Open Media
    The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas.Clarence Lusane juxtaposes significant events in White House history with the ongoing struggle for ... Leer más

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  • Mothers of Massive Resistance

    White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

    Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white ... Leer más

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  • I've Got the Light of Freedom

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

    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. ... Leer más

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  • Groundwork

    Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights

    "A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the ForewordCharles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American law and society. A brilliant lawyer and educator, he laid much of the legal foundation for the landmark civil ... Leer más

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  • Beaches, Blood, and Ballots

    A Black Doctorâ??s Civil Rights Struggle

    This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Newly opened by court order, documents from the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission's secret files enhance this riveting memoir written by a major civil rights figure in Mississippi. He joined his friends and ... Leer más

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