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A COLLECTION OF FAVORITE WORKS BY HENRY DAVID THOREAU
This Deluxe Collector's Edition Includes WALDEN, ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN, WALKING, WILD APPLES, & CAPE COD Plus BONUS AUDIOBOOKS
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
A COLLECTION OF FAVORITE WORKS BY HENRY DAVID THOREAU - This Deluxe Collector's Edition Includes:
WALDEN ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN WALKING WILD APPLES CAPE COD
Plus Four BONUS AUDIO NARRATIONS of the following:
WALDEN ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL...
Men We Reaped
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South.
“We saw the lightning...
by Nathan McCall
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
With the same personal authority and exhilarating directness he brought to his account of his passage from a prison cell to the newsroom of The Washington Post, Nathan McCall delivers a series of front-line reports on the state of the races in today's America. The resulting volume is guaranteed...
by E. R. Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
E. R. Braithwaite, the acclaimed author of To Sir, With Love, poignantly recounts his time as a social worker dedicated to London’s abandoned minority children
Despite his Cambridge education and a sterling record with the British Royal Air Force during World War II, E. R. Braithwaite, a...
Blood and Earth
Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
For readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo’s Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains comes a powerful and captivating examination of two entwined global crises: environmental destruction and human trafficking—and an inspiring, bold...
Nobody Turn Me Around
A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
On August 28, 1963, over a quarter-million people—about two-thirds black and one-third white—held the greatest civil rights demonstration ever. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” oration. And just blocks away, President Kennedy and Congress skirmished over landmark...
Separate Pasts
Growing Up White in the Segregated South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In Separate Pasts Melton A. McLaurin honestly and plainly recalls his boyhood during the 1950s, an era when segregation existed unchallenged in the rural South. In his small hometown of Wade, North Carolina, whites and blacks lived and worked within each other's shadows, yet were separated by the...
by Harsha Walia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”-Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Undoing...
The Dark Before Dawn
From Civil Wrongs to Civil Light
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
As an African American child growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, author Gerald Eubanks had a hard time seeing the victories won during the Civil War in action. Blacks were excluded from opportunities afforded to his white neighbors. Schools were aggressively segregated. Racial tensions simmered....
Struggle for Mastery
Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Around 1900, the southern states embarked on a series of political campaigns aimed at disfranchising large numbers of voters. By 1908, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia had succeeded in depriving virtually all African...
Freedom Rider Diary
Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm. She chronicled the events and...
by Ray Kania
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
Grants Chapel Alley is based on true events. Good days were when life was merely unpleasant. The tiny houses that were behind Grants Chapel Alley were modeled after slave cabins. This was life in Macon, Georgia in 1950.
These cabins were built with tin roofs and no inner walls or ceilings, even in...
Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare
Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
What are the historical events most key to shaping Latino culture? This book provides detailed and broad coverage of the 50 most pivotal developments across more than 500 years' time that have shaped the Latino experience, offering primary sources, biographies of notable figures, and suggested readings...