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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $2.90
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Manufacturer: Algonquin Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles Cobb Jr.
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Publisher: Algonquin Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.1196073
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Publication Date: 2007-12-20
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Reading Level: 388
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Description: This in-depth look at the civil rights movement goes to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathered in churches; where they spoke, taught, and organized; where they were arrested, where they lost their lives, and where they triumphed.
Award-winning journalist Charles E. Cobb Jr., a former organizer and field secretary for SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), knows the journey intimately. He guides us through Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, back to the real grassroots of the movement. He pays tribute not only to the men and women etched into our national memory but to local people whose seemingly small contributions made an impact. We go inside the organizations that framed the movement, travel on the "Freedom Rides" of 1961, and hear first-person accounts about the events that inspired Brown vs. Board of Education.
An essential piece of American history, this is also a useful travel guide with maps, photographs, and sidebars of background history, newspaper coverage, and firsthand interviews.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $11.85
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: LeeAnna Keith
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 976.367
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Publication Date: 2008-01-28
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging white supremacists. The most deadly incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but extinguished the campaign for racial equality.
LeeAnna Keith's The Colfax Massacre is the first full-length book to tell the history of this decisive event. Drawing on a huge body of documents, including eyewitness accounts of the massacre, as well as newly discovered evidence from the site itself, Keith explores the racial tensions that led to the fateful encounter, during which surrendering blacks were mercilessly slaughtered, and the reverberations this message of terror sent throughout the South. Keith also recounts the heroic attempts by U.S. Attorney J.R. Beckwith to bring the killers to justice and the many legal issues raised by the massacre. In 1875, disregarding the poignant testimony of 300 witnesses, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in U.S. v. Cruikshank to overturn a lower court conviction of eight conspirators. This decision virtually nullified the Ku Klux Klan Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871--which had made federal offenses of a variety of acts to intimidate voters and officeholders--and cleared the way for the Jim Crow era.
If there was a single historical moment that effectively killed Reconstruction and erased the gains blacks had made since the civil war, it was the day of the Colfax Massacre. LeeAnna Keith gives readers both a gripping narrative account of that portentous day and a nuanced historical analysis of its far-reaching repercussions.
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Howard-Pitney
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Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.173
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Publication Date: 2004-02-20
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Reading Level: 207
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Description: The civil rights movement’s most prominent leaders, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) and Malcolm X (1925–1965), represent two wings of the revolt against racism: nonviolent resistance and revolution "by any means necessary." This volume presents the two leaders’ relationship to the civil rights movement beyond a simplified dualism. A rich selection of speeches, essays, and excerpts from Malcolm X’s autobiography and King’s sermons shows the breadth and range of each man’s philosophy, demonstrating their differences, similarities, and evolution over time. Organized into six topical groups, the documents allow students to compare the leaders’ views on subjects including integration, the American dream, means of struggle, and opposing racial philosophies. An interpretive introductory essay, chronology, selected bibliography, document headnotes, and questions for consideration provide further pedagogical support.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles M. Payne
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 970
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Publication Date: 2007-03-16
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Reading Level: 552
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Description: This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature.
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Price: $24.00
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Sale: $3.95
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Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Levering Lewis
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.04960730092
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Publication Date: 1994-12-15
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Reading Level: 752
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Description: This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.45
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Manufacturer: Black Classic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stanley Lane-Poole
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Publisher: Black Classic Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 1996-12-05
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Reading Level: 295
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Description: First published in 1886, this book has held its place as the classic work on the Moors in Spain: a scholarly, wonderfully readable and sweeping tale of splendor and tragedy. |
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Price: $24.99
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Sale: $14.25
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James Oliver Horton::Lois E. Horton
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0496073
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Publication Date: 2006-02-16
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: The history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human side of this inhumane institution, presenting it largely through stories of the slaves themselves.
Readers will discover a wide ranging and sharply nuanced look at American slavery, from the first Africans brought to British colonies in the early seventeenth century to the end of Reconstruction. The authors document the horrors of slavery, particularly in the deep South, and describe the slaves' valiant struggles to free themselves from bondage. There are dramatic tales of escape by slaves such as William and Ellen Craft and Dred Scott's doomed attempt to win his freedom through the Supreme Court. We see how slavery engendered violence in our nation, from bloody confrontations that broke out in American cities over fugitive slaves, to the cataclysm of the Civil War. The book is also filled with stories of remarkable African Americans like Sergeant William H. Carney, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery at the crucial assault on Fort Wagner during the Civil War, and Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, a former slave who led freed African Americans to a new life on the American frontier. Filled with absorbing and inspirational accounts highlighted by more than one hundred pictures and illustrations, Slavery and the Making of America is a gripping account of the struggles of African Americans against the iniquity of slavery.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.75
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Manufacturer: Jerden Records
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Audio CD
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Publisher: Jerden Records
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 1994-06-01
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Reading Level: 4
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Description: This historical compilation features highlights of the live recordings of The Great March To Freedom, The Great March To Washington and the immortal Free At Last speech. Plus, a poignant eulogy by Robert F. Kennedy. Approximate running time: 70 minutes.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $15.99
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 174.280976149
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Publication Date: 2000-07-03
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Reading Level: 656
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Description: Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research—the Tuskegee syphilis study. Told they were being treated for "bad blood," the nearly four hundred men with late-stage syphilis and two hundred disease-free men who served as controls were kept away from appropriate treatment and plied instead with placebos, nursing visits, and the promise of decent burials. Despite the publication of more than a dozen reports in respected medical and public health journals, the study continued for forty years, until extensive media coverage finally brought the experiment to wider public knowledge and forced its end. This edited volume gathers articles, contemporary newspaper accounts, selections from reports and letters, reconsiderations of the study by many of its principal actors, and works of fiction, drama, and poetry to tell the Tuskegee story as never before. Together, these pieces illuminate the ethical issues at play from a remarkable breadth of perspectives and offer an unparalleled look at how the study has been understood over time.
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Price: $24.99
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Sale: $20.81
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Herbert S. Klein
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 382.44
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Publication Date: 1999-04-13
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: This survey synthesizes the economic, social, cultural and political history of the Atlantic slave trade. It details the current scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The book examines the 400 years of the Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East African experiences and the American colonies and republics that obtained slaves from Africa, outlining common features and local variations. It discusses the slave trade's economics, politics, demographic impact, and cultural implications in Africa and America, places the slave trade in the context of world trade, and examines its role in the growing relationship among Asia, Africa, Europe and America.
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