Thunder of Freedom

Sojourner

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• The world's eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964, when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration ... Lees meer

For a Voice and the Vote

Lisa Anderson Todd

• Paperback | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• During the summer of 1964, hundreds of American college students descended on Mississippi to help the state's African American citizens register to vo... Lees meer

The Struggle Is Eternal

Joseph R Fitzgerald

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• Many prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period wa... Lees meer

Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings

Brian Purnell

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established a reputation as one of the most important civil rights organizations of the early 1960s. In the wak... Lees meer

The Chicago Freedom Movement

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr... Lees meer

Gateway to Equality

Keona K Ervin

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• Like most of the nation during the 1930s, St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of the Great Depression. For the next thirty years, the... Lees meer

John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights

Brandon K Winford

• Paperback | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• John Hervey Wheeler (1908-1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity ... Lees meer

James and Esther Cooper Jackson

Sara Rzeszutek

• Paperback | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• James Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson grew up understanding that opportunities came differently for blacks and whites, men and women, rich and poor.... Lees meer

Sidelined

Simon Henderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• In 1968, noted sociologist Harry Edwards established the Olympic Project for Human Rights, calling for a boycott of that year's games in Mexico City a... Lees meer

Democracy Rising

Peter F Lau

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• Considered by many historians to be the birthplace of the Confederacy, South Carolina experienced one of the longest and most turbulent Reconstruction... Lees meer

Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings

Brian Purnell

• Paperback | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established a reputation as one of the most important civil rights organizations of the early 1960s. In the wak... Lees meer

Becoming King

Troy Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• "The history books may write it Reverend King was born in Atlanta, and then came to Montgomery, but we feel that he was born in Montgomery in the stru... Lees meer

River of Hope

Elizabeth Gritter

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry, Memphis, Tennessee, was at the forefront of black political empowerment during t... Lees meer

Becoming King

Troy Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• "The history books may write it Reverend King was born in Atlanta, and then came to Montgomery, but we feel that he was born in Montgomery in the stru... Lees meer

Art for Equality

Jenny Woodley

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to th... Lees meer

An Unseen Light

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• In An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee , eminent and rising scholars present a multidisciplinary examination of African... Lees meer

Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South

Tracy E K'Meyer

• Paperback | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, represents a cultural and geographical intersection of North and South. Throughout its ... Lees meer

James and Esther Cooper Jackson

Sara Rzeszutek

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• James Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson grew up understanding that opportunities came differently for blacks and whites, men and women, rich and poor.... Lees meer

This Little Light of Mine

Kay Mills

• Paperback | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• " WITH A FOREWORD BY MARION WRIGHT EDELMAN The award-winning biography of black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. ""Riveting. Provides a history... Lees meer

In Remembrance of Emmett Till

Darryl Mace

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Chicago native Emmett Till was brutally beaten to death for allegedly flirting with a white woman at a grocery s... Lees meer

Roy Wilkins

Yvonne Ryan

• Paperback | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• Roy Wilkins (1901-1981) spent forty-six years of his life serving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and led the o... Lees meer

Civil Rights Crossroads

Steven F Lawson

• Paperback | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• Over the past thirty years, Steven F. Lawson has established himself as one of the nation's leading historians of the black struggle for equality. Civ... Lees meer

Freedom Rights

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• The history of the Civil Rights Movement is too frequently simplified and uncritically passed down from generation to generation. Many students today ... Lees meer

John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights

Brandon K Winford

• Hardcover | Engels | Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen
• WINNER OF THE LILLIAN SMITH BOOK AWARD John Hervey Wheeler (1908-1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulatin... Lees meer