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  • Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations

    Atlanta, GA 1946-1981

    by David A. Harmon ...
    Series series Studies in African American History and Culture
    This study is the story of the local Civil Rights Movement and race relations in Atlanta, Georgia from 1946 to 1981. Most examinations of the Civil Rights Movement have been written from a national perspective. These studies have presented local African American protest movements as part of a national campaign for civil rights that lasted approximately from 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Containment

    Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

    by Michelle Adams ...
    Winner of the MAAH Stone Book AwardWinner of the 2025 Avern Cohn AwardWinner of the 2026 Hillman Prize for Book JournalismHonorable Mention, 2026 ABA Silver Gavel AwardA New York Times Notable Book of 2025,A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 selectionA Library of Michigan Notable Book of 2026... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Chocolate City

    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove ...
    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Protest at Selma

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    by David J. Garrow ...
    A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the CrossVivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow's account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • White Flight

    Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

    by Kevin M. Kruse ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • The Death of Public School

    How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

    by Cara Fitzpatrick ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education—one that threatens the existence of the traditional public schoolAmerica has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining enrollment and diminished trust in public education, policies that steer tax dollars into private schools have ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Young Crusaders

    The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement

    by V.P. Franklin ...
    An authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint for future generations of activists to follow.Some of the most iconic images of the Civil Rights Movement are those of young people engaged in social activism, such as children and teenagers in 1963 being attacked by police in Birmingham with dogs and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Bloody Lowndes

    Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt

    by Hasan Kwame Jeffries ...
    Bloody Lowndes is the true story of the people of rural Lowndes County, Alabama, who organized a radical experiment in democratic politics in 1966.Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the Best Book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationEarly in 1966, African Americans in Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ... Read more

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  • Bending Toward Justice

    The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy

    by Gary May ...
    When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer terror and insidious devices such as complex literacy tests and expensive poll taxes. Most African ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Movement

    The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in ... Read more

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  • Strom Thurmond's America

    by Joseph Crespino ...
    An "engaging . . . authoritative portrait" of the former South Carolina governor and senator and analysis of his political career ( Library Journal )."This is a thoroughly terrific and important work, for it makes clear the continuing impact of Thurmond's legacy on our politics today." —Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Team of RivalsJoseph Crespin... ... Read more

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  • The March on Washington

    Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights

    by William P. Jones ...
    "Vivid and moving…[Tells] a story all but lost in most civil rights histories." —Bill Marvel, Dallas Morning NewsIt was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr. lifted the crowd when he told of his dream that all Americans would join together to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD