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For the freedom of her race
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Lisa G. Materson |
"Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 - a perio… |
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The Selma marches for civil rights
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Steven Otfinoski |
Vivid storytelling and authentic dialogue bring American history to life and place readers in the shoes of ten people who experienced one of the most pivotal moments of the Civil Rights Movement - th… |
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For a voice and the vote
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Lisa Anderson Todd |
"During the summer of 1964, more than a thousand individuals descended on Mississippi to help the state's African American citizens register to vote. Student organizers, volunteers, and community mem… |
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Bending toward justice
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May, Gary |
"A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It is an extraordinary story of the intimi… |
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Selma's Bloody Sunday
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Pratt, Robert A. |
"One can point to more than a few 'critical moments' in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Even so, few incidents so starkly etched the just-treatment claims of the struggle and the raw brutalit… |
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Voting rights under fire
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Donathan L. Brown |
"With the increasing demands for changes in how we vote, the authors analyze the complications of race tied to these proposed policies through historical and contemporary challenges"--
"Voting Right… |
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Uncovering Black Heroes
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David Boers |
xii, 126 pages ; 23 cm |
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The evidence of things not seen
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James Baldwin |
This edition of a classic work by one of America’s premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was w… |
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Black ballots
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Steven F. Lawson |
A thorough historical treatment of suffrage expansion in the South from World War II through the Johnson administration.
Black Ballots is an in-depth look at suffrage expansion in the South from Wor… |
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