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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Sweet Hell Inside	Edward Ball	Recounts the lives of the Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave who cast off their blemished roots and achieved affluence in part through a surprisingl…	OL118372W
The Eyes of Willie McGee	Alex Heard	A gripping saga of race and retribution in the Deep South and a story whose haunting details echo the themes of To Kill a MockingbirdIn 1945, Willie McGee, a young African-American man from Laurel, M…	OL15158415W
Fight against fear	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…	OL15326841W
A nation under our feet	Steven Hahn	This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people-an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural Afr…	OL15838669W
Redemption	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…	OL15839444W
Freedom walk	Mary Stanton	"In 1963, the streams of religious revival, racial strife, and cold-war politics were feeding the swelling river of social unrest in America. Marshaling massive forces, civil rights leaders were prim…	OL1828314W
The bloody shirt	Stephen Budiansky	A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in an analysis that traces the period through the careers of two Union offi…	OL18532841W
Strong inside	Andrew Maraniss	Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered kindergarten the year that the Brown v. Board of Education decision led to integrated schools, allowing blacks and whites …	OL20049304W
The story behind Mark Twain's adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Rebecca Vickers	Provides a background for Mark Twain's famous novel by looking at relevant biographical details about his life and offering historical details that place the story in context, with a literary analysi…	OL24853511W
Deep Souths	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…	OL2743141W
Southern history across the color line	Nell Irvin Painter	"In this collection, Painter reaches across the color line to examine how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twe…	OL2978164W
Apostles of disunion	Charles B. Dew	"In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the slave South carrying a fervent message in pursuit of a clear goal: to persuade the political leaders…	OL3907670W
Turning south again	Houston A. Baker	Summary:Offers an account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. This book combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue t…	OL4315233W
Free at Last!	Doreen Rappaport	Describes the experiences of African Americans in the South, from the Emancipation in 1863 to the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared school segregation illegal.	OL463886W
The Press and Race	David R. Davies	"Instead of turning toward hatred after his father was murdered by a black man in 1926, Frank E. Smith committed himself to helping his racist state move toward integration and racial harmony. He was…	OL5295981W
Capitol men	Philip Dray	Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray shines a light on a little known group of men: the nation's first black members of Congress. These men played a critical role in pushing for much-needed reforms in…	OL5731368W
At the hands of persons unknown	Philip Dray	It is easy to shrink from our country's brutal history of lynching. Lynching is called the last great skeleton in our nation's closet: It terrorized all of black America, claimed thousands upon thous…	OL5731370W
Dixie	Curtis Wilkie	"Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial an…	OL6210138W
Memphis Tennessee Garrison	Memphis Tennessee Garrison	"As a black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a group triply ignored by historians.". "The daughter of former slaves, she moved with her family to McDowell County, West Virgi…	OL7798672W
Geography Of Hope:Black Exodus	James Haskins	Discusses the conditions of African Americans in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, and the migration of many former slaves, led by such men as Benjamin Singleton and Henry Adams, to …	OL7987017W