racism
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in theJim Crow South
In this gripping saga of race and retribution, Alex Heard (editorial director of Outside magazine) tells a moving and unforgettable story of the de…
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racism
Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life
Viewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black …
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Religion
Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives onMalcolm and Martin
Professors Baldwin and Al-Hadid, at Vanderbilt and Tennessee State Universities respectively, persuasively argue that El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (bet…
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racism
Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare
This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King,…
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spirituality
Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in GreatMigration Philadelphia
During the early twentieth century, millions of southern blacks moved north to escape the violent racism of the Jim Crow South and to find employmen…
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Reconstruction
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
“Is there really anything new to say about Reconstruction? The excellent contributions to this volume make it clear that the answer is a resounding…
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racism
To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville
What defines a city's public space? Who designates such areas, who determines their uses, and who gets to use them? Today's "Occupy&quo…
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Reconstruction
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning FamiliesSince Reconstruction
This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides…
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racism
Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, BlackSoutherners, and College Campuses
Nowhere else can one read about how "Brown v. Board of Education" transformed higher education on campus after campus, in state after sta…
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Jim Crow
A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activistsin the Jim Crow South
In the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century a small group of women overcame personal and professional hardships to gain national promi…
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racism
The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in United States History
Highlighting the efforts of both blacks and whites to promote racial equality in the face of violent attempts to preserve white supremacy, Author Da…
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racism
Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor'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 occ…
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racism
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Ches…
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racism
Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision
Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that mandated the desegregation of U.S. schools, is popularly seen as a hallmark of Am…
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slavery
The Jim Crow Era (African-American History)
Gr 4-6-There are some admirable qualities to these titles-use of primary source documents, follow-up questions, and "Stop and Think" writ…
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War
Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep Southafter the Civil War
Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, created a sweep…
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racism
Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
No modern tragedy has had a greater impact on race relations in America than the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. A 14-year-old black boy from…
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racism
Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
Paul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced Southern custo…
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racism
To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South
This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender…
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racism
Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans’s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of…
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