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"It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she’s ever been in her life. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. But with the color of Violet’s skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Before...
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In these twodevastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social styles,"black rage," and "white guilt" in our status-minded world.
In "These Radical Chic Evenings," Wolfefocuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correctat Leonard Bernstein's duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen of theBlack Panther Party. He re-creates the incongruous scene and its astonishingrepercussions with
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This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain--the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to the American South...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2015]
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English
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"The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise--a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos" --
"Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White House explores the last half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of...
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Oxford University Press
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©2021.
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English
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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. In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, re-centering the narrative around the mobilization of ordinary people.
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Very short introductions volume 730
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Oxford University Press
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[2023]
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"The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, it prefigured the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century...
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