Scottsboro - A Tragedy of the American South by Dan T. Carter
$49.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Series: Jules and Frances Landry Award Ser.
Scottsboro tells the riveting story of one of this country's most famous and controversial court cases and a tragic and revealing chapter in the history of the American South. In 1931, two white girls claimed they were savagely raped by nine young black men aboard a freight train moving across northeast ...Show more
Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968 by Steven F. Lawson; Charles M. Payne
$59.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
No other book about the civil rights movement captures the drama and impact of the black struggle for equality better than Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. Two of the most respected scholars of African-American history, Steven F. Lawson and Charles M. Payne, examine the individuals who mad ...Show more
Remembering Jim Crow - African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South by William H. Chafe (Editor); Raymond Gavins (Editor); Robert Korstad (Editor)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History
This "viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era" won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher's Weekly, starred review). Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, ...Show more
Bus Ride to Justice (Revised Edition) - Changing the System by the System, the Life and Works of Fred Gray by Fred D. Gray
$59.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History
First published in 1995, Bus Ride to Justice, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray's remarkable career of "destroying everything segregated that I could find." Of particular interest will be the details G ...Show more
Reasoning from Race - Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution by Serena Mayeri
$49.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History
Informed in 1944 that she was "not of the sex" entitled to be admitted to Harvard Law School, African American activist Pauli Murray confronted the injustice she called "Jane Crow." In the 1960s and 1970s, the analogies between sex and race discrimination pioneered by Murray became potent weapons in the ...Show more
I'm Still Here - Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
$34.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'This book is my story about growing up in a Black girl's body.' From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian and female that exposes how white America's love affair with 'divers ...Show more
The Warmth of Other Suns - The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cultural History
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS C ...Show more
Natives - Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
$27.99 NZD
Category: Cultural History | Reading Level: very good
'My book of the year. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now. This is the book I've been waiting for - for years' Benjamin Zephaniah 'A potent combination of autobiography and political history which holds up a mirror to contemporary Britain' Independent 'A history lesso ...Show more