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Bagley, Edythe Scott. Desert Rose : the Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012.
Details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor.
Details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor.
Bond, Julian. This Light of Ours : Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
A paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers-men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based disenfranchisement from within the movement.
A paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers-men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based disenfranchisement from within the movement.
Bynum, Cornelius L. A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
Bynum interweaves biographical information on Randolph with details on how he gradually shifted his thinking about race and class, full citizenship rights, industrial organization, trade unionism, and civil rights protest throughout his activist career.
Bynum interweaves biographical information on Randolph with details on how he gradually shifted his thinking about race and class, full citizenship rights, industrial organization, trade unionism, and civil rights protest throughout his activist career.
Farris, Christine King. Through It All : Reflections on My Life, My Family, and My Faith. New York: Atria Books, 2009.
This intimate portrait of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his early family life by his only sister illustrates how he was empowered to perform miraculous deeds and change the course of American history.
This intimate portrait of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his early family life by his only sister illustrates how he was empowered to perform miraculous deeds and change the course of American history.
Franklin, John Hope. The Militant South, 1800-1861. 1st Illinois pbk. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
John Hope Franklin identifies the factors and causes of the South's festering propensity for aggression that contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.
John Hope Franklin identifies the factors and causes of the South's festering propensity for aggression that contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.
Franklin, John Hope. Runaway Slaves : Rebels on the Plantation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
This book shows how slaves resisted,how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. It examines how the slaveholding class marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves.
This book shows how slaves resisted,how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. It examines how the slaveholding class marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves.
Gates, Henry Louis. Life Upon These Shores : Looking at African American History, 1513-2008. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.
Gates, Henry Louis. Life Upon These Shores : Looking at African American History, 1513-2008. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
First published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the story of the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter who travels to the North to attend school, only to be sold into slavery in the South when it is discovered that she has Negro blood.
First published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the story of the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter who travels to the North to attend school, only to be sold into slavery in the South when it is discovered that she has Negro blood.
Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes : Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Lincoln or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. 1st Illinois pbk. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Born into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker and designer to the political elite of Washington, D.C., and a confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
Born into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker and designer to the political elite of Washington, D.C., and a confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists. Oxford University Press, 1969.
While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery movement, the black abolitionists have been largely ignored. This book, written by one of America’s leading black historians, sets the record straight.
While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery movement, the black abolitionists have been largely ignored. This book, written by one of America’s leading black historians, sets the record straight.
Reddie, Richard S. The Life of Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Oxford: Lion, 2011.
Thought-provoking reappraisal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, showing how King was not a “moderate” but a radical individual whose ideas on peace, war, poverty, social justice, and equality were well ahead of his time.
Thought-provoking reappraisal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, showing how King was not a “moderate” but a radical individual whose ideas on peace, war, poverty, social justice, and equality were well ahead of his time.
Wiggins, William H. O Freedom! : Afro-American Emancipation Celebrations. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.
Traces the evolution and historical context of emancipation celebrations as well as their role in transmitting culture and unifying African-Americans.
Traces the evolution and historical context of emancipation celebrations as well as their role in transmitting culture and unifying African-Americans.
Willis, Deborah. Reflections in Black : a History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.
Deborah Willis's groundbreaking assemblage of photographs of African American life from 1840 to the present.
Deborah Willis's groundbreaking assemblage of photographs of African American life from 1840 to the present.
Lincoln, Abraham. Lincoln on Race & Slavery. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s.
Berlin, Ira. Slavery, Resistance, Freedom. Oxford ;New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Collection of essays by some of America's top historians that focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and how they responded when finally free.
Collection of essays by some of America's top historians that focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and how they responded when finally free.
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