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Cover of To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
by Michael K. Honey
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018

“This is a dangerous book.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world’s most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King, Jr., as an advocate of...
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The First Twenty-Five

An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock’s Public Junior High Schools

by LaVerne Bell-Tolliver
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018

“It was one of those periods that you got through, as opposed to enjoyed. It wasn’t an environment that . . . was nurturing, so you shut it out. You just got through it. You just took it a day at a time. You excelled if you could. You did your best. You felt as though the eyes of the community...
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Dare We Hope?

Facing our past to find a new future

by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

'It is a gruesome tale - how we have moved so rapidly from the era of hope to the bleak landscape ushered in by Zuma's ascent to power ...' Yet Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, acclaimed author and international expert on reconciliation, wants to rekindle our hope. As a clinical psychologist who has worked...
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Klansville, U.S.A:The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan

The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan

by David Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012

In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most surprisingly, the state with the largest Klan...
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Daybreak of Freedom

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., and a crucial step in the struggle to realize the American dream of liberty and equality for all. In Daybreak...
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The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement

Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968

by David C. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

After the passage of sweeping civil rights and voting rights legislation in 1964 and 1965, the civil rights movement stood poised to build on considerable momentum. In a famous speech at Howard University in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that victory in the next battle for civil rights...
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by Richard Jeanty
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013

Black men are increasingly being victimized by the police in New York and other major cities around the country. The violence has escalated to deadly force, most of the time without justification. In this controversial book, noted author Richard Jeanty, tackles the problem of police brutality and...
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by Louis Filler
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated nightmare from the past, or regarding it as a way of life which warmly repaid slave and slaveholder. He does...
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A Union Indivisible

Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South

by Michael D. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung...
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Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery

The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union

by Daniel W. Crofts
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016

In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the "Great Emancipator." Lincoln always hated slavery, but he also believed it to be legal where it already existed, and he never imagined fighting a...
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by Christopher Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018

In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year's whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberals led him to write this satirical, evocative portrait of what it looked and felt like growing up in...
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No More Heroes

Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality

by Jordan Flaherty
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016

Missionaries of the left, saviors are people of privilege who believe they have all the answers. They want to help, but don’t want to listen; they lead but never follow. From post-Katrina New Orleans, to anti-sex-traficking work, to do-gooder journalists, Flaherty’s book reveals saviors’ misdeeds but also shows how activists can build new, stronger movements.
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The Next American Revolution

Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

by Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis—political, economical,...
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Living for the City

Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California

by Donna Jean Murch
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010

In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling...
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