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"One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who...
11) Simple justice: the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality
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Knopf
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2004.
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English
15) The crisis of conservative Virginia: the Byrd organization and the politics of massive resistance
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University of Tennessee Press
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[1976]
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English
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Georgetown University Press
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[2023]
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English
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"Dirt Don't Burn, the result of novel research by the Edwin Washington Project, is the story of how the Black community in Loudoun County, VA fought for public education from the end of the Civil War until the end of segregation in 1968. Over the course of nearly a century, various actors--parents, teachers, white allies, and others--pressed to ensure their children a better future, seeking to improve school facilities, increase access to education,...
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