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Infectious fear
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Samuel Roberts |
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of … |
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Breach of peace
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Eric Etheridge |
In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans -- blacks and whites, men and women -- converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they … |
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The new Jim Crow
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Karen Chilton,Michelle Alexander |
This work argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race… |
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The big sort
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Bill Bishop |
America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. We've built a country where we can… |
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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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The starplace
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Vicki Grove |
Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961. |
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Caleb's wars
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David L. Dudley |
Fifteen-year-old Caleb's courageous commitment to justice grows as he faces a power struggle with his father, fights to keep both his temper and self-respect in dealing with whites, and puzzles over … |
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The Ravine
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James Williamson |
A compelling story, "The Ravine" evokes the South during the early years of the Civil Rights movement where a complex mixture of love and hate, ignorance and enlightenment, and guilt and innocence co… |
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Toward the meeting of the waters
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Orville Vernon Burton,Winfred B. Moore |
This book takes a provocative look into civil rights progress in the Palmetto State from activists, statesmen, and historians. Toward the Meeting of the Waters represents a watershed moment in civil … |
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Hitler's American Model
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James Q. Whitman |
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany. Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any… |
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Last night at the blue angel
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Rebecca Rotert |
"A highly ambitious and stylish literary debut set against the 1960's Chicago jazz scene about a talented but troubled singer's heartbreaking relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter"-- |
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The Green book
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Calvin A. Ramsey |
When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes … |
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Race Against Time
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Jack E. Davis |
"While many studies of race relations have focused on the black experience, Race against Time strives to unravel the emotional and cultural foundations of race in the white mind. Jack E. Davis combed… |
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Mary Church Terrell
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Cookie Lommel |
Traces the life and achievements of the black civil rights worker whose greatest accomplishment, the integration of restaurants in Washington, D.C., came when she was nearly ninety years old. |
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Rebel Yell
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Alice Randall |
From the bestselling author of "The Wind Done Gone" comes a timely new novel of political intrigue, family secrets, and espionage, steeped in this country's racial history and framing America's uniqu… |
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Memorial of the Convocation of the Colored People in the diocese of North Carolina presented to the…
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Episcopal Church. Diocese of North Carolina. Convocation of the Colored People |
Presented to the Episcopal Bishop and Convention of North Carolina in 1916, for the creation of a separate Episcopal Church for African Americans within the existing church organization, to ease soci… |
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Report on racial imbalance in the Boston public schools
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United States Commission on Civil Rights. Massachusetts Advisory Committee |
...organization and racial composition of the schools; effect of discrimination in public housing; consideration of the policy of the Boston School Committee; comparison of student performance and te… |
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Deep Souths
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J. William Harris |
"Deep Souths tells the stories of three southern regions from Reconstruction to World War II: the Georgia Sea Islands and Atlantic coast, the eastern Piedmont of Georgia, and the Mississippi-Yazoo De… |
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Bigmama didn't shop at Woolworth's
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Nash, Sunny |
Description: Bigmamma Didn't Shop at Woolworth's. Not just because things cost more there than from the hawker who drove through the Candy Hill neighborhood from time to time, but because in the 1950… |
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A bus of our own
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Freddi Williams Evans |
Although she really wants to go to school, walking the five miles is very difficult for Mabel Jean and the other black children, so she tries to find a way to get a bus for them the same as the white… |
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