A vivid, groundbreaking history of the legacies of slavery in an elite Northern town as told by its Black residents I Hear My People Singing shi…
Read moreIn this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest…
Read moreBetween 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives, to defeating segregation. During these times, chara…
Read moreJim Crow refers to a set of laws in many states, predominantly in the South, after the end of Reconstruction in 1877 that severely restricted the…
Read moreJim Crow Laws presents the history of the discriminatory laws that segregated people by race in the American South from the end of the Civil War …
Read moreThe sequel to the award-winning Remembering Slavery, a groundbreaking book-and-CD set of interviews about the segregation-era South. Remembering J…
Read moreAll groups tell stories, but some groups have the power to impose their stories on others, to label others, stigmatize others, paint others as un…
Read moreThe most comprehensive account of the horrific lynching of Willie Earle Before daybreak on February 17, 1947, twenty-four-year-old Willie Earle, a…
Read moreVolume Two of The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews reveals that as merchants and businessmen, Jews gained much in a repressive Jim Crow …
Read moreEmerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown…
Read moreSeldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial dec…
Read moreIn the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 18…
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