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Fight against fear
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Clive Webb |
"In the uneasily shared history of Jews and blacks in America, the struggle for civil rights in the South may be the least understood episode. Fight against Fear is the first book to focus on Jews an… |
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America in black and white
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Stephan Thernstrom |
The "American Dilemma," Gunnar Myrdal called the problem of race in his classic 1944 book. More than half a century later, race remains the issue that dwarfs all others - the problem that doesn't get… |
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Redemption
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Nicholas Lemann |
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. Jour… |
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In defense of our America
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Anthony D. Romero,Dina Temple-raston |
The executive director of the ACLU takes a critical look at civil liberties in this country at a time when constitutional freedoms are in peril. Using the stories of real Americans on the frontlines … |
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Civil rights
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Thomas Sowell |
It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over… |
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Freedom dreams
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Robin D.G. Kelley |
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C.L.R. James … |
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Gender talk
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Johnnetta B. Cole |
Why has the African American community remained silent about gender even as race has moved to the forefront of our nation's consciousness? In this important new book, two of the nation's leading Afri… |
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Jefferson's pillow
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Roger W. Wilkins |
"As a black man, Roger Wilkins feels at times unwelcome in America. Although an outspoken participant in the civil rights movement, the assistant attorney general during the Johnson administration, a… |
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Vernon can read!
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Vernon E. Jordan,Vernon E. Jordan Jr,Vernon E., Jr. Jordan,Annette Gordon-Reed,Jordan, Vernon E., Jr. |
"In 1955, as a college student home in Atlanta for vacation, Vernon Jordan had a summer job driving a retired white banker around town. During the man's afternoon naps Jordan passed the time reading … |
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