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Blacks Against Brown - The Intra-Racial Struggle Over Segregated Schools In Topeka, Kansas

by Charise L. Cheney

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 Historical observers have widely viewed Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) as one of the most significant civil rights moments in American history. However, there is another historical perspective that tells a more complex tale of Black resistance to the NAACPâ€™s decision to pursue desegregating Americaâ€™s public schools.
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Hubert Harrison - Forbidden Genius Of Black Radicalism

by Brian Kwoba

~~159,00€~~ 143,10€ 10% OFF

 Presents a historical restoration of Hubert Henry Harrison's numerous intellectual and political breakthroughs.
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Color Of The Law - Race, Violence, And Justice In The Post-World War Ii South

by Gail Williams O'Brien

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 Drawing on oral interviews and an array of written sources, this is the dramatic story of the 1946 Columbia ""race riot"", the national attention it drew, and its surprising legal aftermath. It illuminates the effects of World War II on race relations and the criminal justice system in the USA.
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Death Blow To Jim Crow - The National Negro Congress And The Rise Of Militant Civil Rights

by Erik S. Gellman

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 Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights
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At The Threshold Of Liberty - Women, Slavery, And Shifting Identities In Washington, D.C.

by Tamika Y. Nunley

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 Consulting newspapers, government documents, letters, abolitionist records, legislation, and memoirs, Tamika Nunley traces how Black women navigated social and legal proscriptions to develop their own ideas about liberty as they escaped from slavery, created entrepreneurial economies, pursued education, and participated in political work.
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Something To Do With Power - Julian Mayfield’S Journey Toward A Black Radical Thought, 1948-1984

by David Tyroler Romine

~~165,63€~~ 149,07€ 10% OFF

 Highlights the importance of Julian Hudson Mayfield's story of mutual interest and solidarity in shaping literary and political activism
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Unceasing Militant, Second Edition - The Life Of Mary Church Terrell

by Alison M. Parker

~~165,63€~~ 149,07€ 10% OFF

 A reflection on the resurgence of public interest in Mary Church Terrell and discusses the newly available digitised files of Terrell's papers at the Library of Congress.
Brother Outsider, Brother Insider - A Political Biography Of Lawrence Guyot Jr.

by Chris Danielson

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 Offers a nuanced portrayal of Lawrence Thomas Guyot Jr. brings a fresh perspective on the US civil rights movement
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Something To Do With Power - Julian Mayfield'S Journey Toward A Black Radical Thought, 1948-1984

by David Romine

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 Highlights the importance of Julian Hudson Mayfield's story of mutual interest and solidarity in shaping literary and political activism
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Hubert Harrison - Forbidden Genius Of Black Radicalism

by Brian Kwoba

~~39,19€~~ 35,27€ 10% OFF

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 Presents a historical restoration of Hubert Henry Harrison's numerous intellectual and political breakthroughs.
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Forgotten Migration - Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, And The Debt Owed To Public Hbcus

by Crystal R. Sanders

~~165,63€~~ 149,07€ 10% OFF

 Tells the story of â€œsegregation scholarshipsâ€ awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate education in the preâ€"Brown v. Board of Education era. Sanders examines Black graduate students who relocated to continue their education with segregation scholarships, revealing the many challenges they faced along the way.
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Proudly We Can Be Africans - Black Americans And Africa, 1935-1961

by James H. Meriwether

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 In the mid-20th century nations across Africa fought for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these struggles, this work probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political and social lives of African Americans.
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African American Roots Of Modernism - From Reconstruction To The Harlem Renaissance

by James Smethurst

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 African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
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Left Of The Color Line - Race, Radicalism, And Twentieth-Century Literature Of The United States

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 A collection of 15 essays exploring the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the end of the century. Individual essays address the Left in relation to the work of such key figures as Ralph Ellison, T.S. Eliot and Chester Himes.
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Department Stores And The Black Freedom Movement - Workers, Consumers, And Civil Rights From The 1930s To The 1980s

by Traci Parker

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 Examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labour formation. The book highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class.
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Beyond The Boundaries Of Childhood - African American Children In The Antebellum North

by Crystal Lynn Webster

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 For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children. Drawing evidence Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, Crystal Webster's innovative research yields a powerful new history of African American childhood before the Civil War.
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Behold The Land - The Black Arts Movement In The South

by James Smethurst

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 In this follow-up to his award-winning history of the Black Arts movement nationally, James Smethurst investigates the origins, development, maturation, and decline of the vital but under-studied Black Arts movement in the South from the 1960s until the early 1980s.
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Colored Conventions Movement - Black Organizing In The Nineteenth Century

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 Offers an exploration of the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. These essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of early organisers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism.
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At The Threshold Of Liberty - Women, Slavery, And Shifting Identities In Washington, D.C.

by Tamika Y. Nunley

159,00€ + 10% CARD

 Consulting newspapers, government documents, letters, abolitionist records, legislation, and memoirs, Tamika Nunley traces how Black women navigated social and legal proscriptions to develop their own ideas about liberty as they escaped from slavery, created entrepreneurial economies, pursued education, and participated in political work.
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First Reconstruction - Black Politics In America From The Revolution To The Civil War

by Van Gosse

198,75€ + 10% CARD

 In this meticulously-researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitutionâ€™s ratification through Abraham Lincolnâ€™s election, chronicling the rise of an organised, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states.
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Unceasing Militant - The Life Of Mary Church Terrell

by Alison M. Parker

159,00€ + 10% CARD

 A reflection on the resurgence of public interest in Mary Church Terrell and discusses the newly available digitised files of Terrell's papers at the Library of Congress.
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Slavery, Fatherhood, And Paternal Duty In African American Communities Over The Long Nineteenth Century

by Libra R. Hilde

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 Analysing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherhood during and after the era of slavery, demonstrating that black men and women articulated a surprisingly broad and consistent vision of paternal duty across more than a century.
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Blurring The Lines Of Race And Freedom - Mulattoes And Mixed Bloods In English Colonial America

by A. B. Wilkinson

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 The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A.B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigating how people of mixed African, European, and Native American heritage were integral to the construction of colonial racial ideologies.
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Visualizing Equality - African American Rights And Visual Culture In The Nineteenth Century

by Aston Gonzalez

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 The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the US by African Americans. Aston Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned.
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