A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders.
A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin L..
In the United States, as in many parts of the world, people are discriminated against based on the color of their skin. This type of skin tone bias, o..
On March 7, 1965, a peaceful voting rights demonstration in Selma, Alabama, was met with an unprovoked attack of shocking violence that riveted the at..
This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, ..
Using oral history interviews with forty-four former teachers from the Jim Crow era, local and state archival materials, and secondary historical sour..
Between the 1950s and 1970s, Black Power coalesced as activists advocated a more oppositional approach to fighting racial oppression, emphasizing raci..
Escaped slave, Civil War spy, scout, and nurse, and champion of women's suffrage, Harriet Tubman is an icon of heroism. Perhaps most famous for leadin..
The African American struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century is one of the most important stories in American history. With all the informa..
Paul T. Miller tells the story of African Americans in San Francisco, tracing the obstacles faced and triumphs achieved in areas as housing, employmen..
The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itself as a wate..
Frederick Douglass was born a slave in February, 1818. From this humble beginning, he went on to become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and c..