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The Zinn Reader
Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible....
by Clarence Lusane
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
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...
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
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...
Daybreak of Freedom
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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...
The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement
Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968
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...
Notorious in the Neighborhood
Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In Notorious in the Neighborhood, Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under...
Driving While Black
Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxi Cabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back if You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A practical handbook for people who want to be safe and do something.
Racial profiling does happen. And while cases where victims find themselves looking down the barrel of a policeman's gun make the six o'clock news, dozens of less extreme, yet troubling, examples occur every day. Cabs that...
by Richard Jeanty
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
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...
Revolt of the Tar Heels
The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890â??1901
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
During the 1890s, North Carolina witnessed a political revolution as the newly formed Populist Party joined with the Republicans to throw out do-nothing, conservative Democrats. Focusing on political transformation, electoral reform, and new economic policies to aid poor and struggling farmers, the...
by Louis Filler
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
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...
A Union Indivisible
Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South
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...
Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery
The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union
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...
by Christopher Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
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...
No More Heroes
Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality
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.