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Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement
Jim Carrier
Format: Book
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In 2004, the United States will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. As our country begins a national retrospective of the civil rights movement, here is the perfect book to help explore the long struggle toward racial equality. Part guidebook, part civil |
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Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961
Mark V Tushnet
Format: Book
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From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court had to strike down the Alabama law which made segregated bus service required by law; before Martin L |
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King: A Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bob Adelman
Format: Book
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Man, martyr, and myth--an American giant in a photobiography of unprecedented scope and depthKing is the first true photobiography of a hero's journey. Never before has his life been so richly chronicled from so many different points of view. A powerful collection of photograph |
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Rosa Parks
Douglas Brinkley
Format: Hardcover
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Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boyc |
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Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist and Reformer
Rachael Phillips
Format: Hardcover
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Frederick Douglass stood out among the abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century. While many of them argued against slavery as a moral wrong, he brought an added element to the debate: Frederick Douglass had himself once been a slave. Converted to Christ at age thirteen, and ass |
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Frederick Douglass: In His Own Words
Frederick Douglass
Format: Book
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A collection of speeches and editorials chronicles the effects of slavery and the struggle to overthrow it, describes the free black experience before and after emancipation, relates the politics of the Civil War, and analyzes the Reconstruction. |
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I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michael Eric Dyson - Free Press
Format: Book
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Where is Martin Luther King, Jr. when we need him? So much has changed since the glory days of the civil rights movement -- and so much has stayed the same. African Americans command their place at every level of society, from the lunch counter to the college campus to the corporate boardroom... |
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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century
David Lewis - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963, the second volume of the Pulitzer Prize--winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as "an engrossing masterpiece". Charismatic, singularly determined, and controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois was a historian, novelist, editor, sociologist, founder... |
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Civil Rights Chronicle (The African-American Struggle for Freedom)
Clayborne Carson - Publications International; First edition. edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Civil Rights Chronicle recounts the details and drama of the American civil rights movement, the decades-long struggle for equality for all people. This comprehensive, 448-page book primarily focuses on the years 1954 through 1968, while also documenting the radical shift in the movement... |
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Civil Rights Movement: An Illustrated History
Brenda Scott Wilkinson
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Portrays in words and images the remarkable courage and conviction of the participants -- organizers and ordinary people alike -- embroiled in the struggle for justice, freedom, and equality for all America's citizens. |
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Civil Rights Movement - P
James Tackach
Format: Paperback
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Discusses the need, goals and strategies, and historical assessment of the civil rights movement from a variety of viewpoints. |
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The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68
Steven Kasher
Format: Book
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With a far-ranging selection of striking images and a lively, cogent text, Steven Kasher captures the danger, drama, and bravery of the civil rights movement. After an introduction explaining the vital importance of photography to the movement, the book proceeds from the Montgomer |
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When We Were Colored: A Mother's Story
Eva Rutland
Format: Book
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Recounting the civil rights era from the perspective of an African American wife and mother, this memoir travels from growing up in the segregated South before World War II to postwar family life in California. Told with humor and homespun wisdom, this is the story of an ordina |
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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
Juan Williams - Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The 25th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams's celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma–Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American... |
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Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65
Taylor Branch - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement. In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize... |
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Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 19411965
Vicki L Crawford
Format: Audiobook
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"[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, and places them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement that re-made America.... It is an invaluable reso |
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Ripples Of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches
Josh Gottheimer
Format: Print book
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Ripples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial period to the present. Gathered from the great speeches of the civil rights movement of African Americans, Asian Americans, gays, Hi |
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