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“We Ain’t What We Was”: Civil Rights in the New South

By: Frederick M.Wirt

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Duke University Press: April 1997

Seller ID: 6217

ISBN: 0822318938

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to Panola County in the Mississippi delta, they found a closed society in which race relations had not altered significantly since Reconstruction. Much has changed, however, in Mississippi in the past three decades, as Frederick Wirt demonstrates in "We Ain't What We Was," a remarkable look inside the New South. In this follow-up to his highly praised 1970 study of Panola County, The Politics of Southern Equality, Wirt shows how the implementation of civil rights law over the past quarter-century has altered racial rea...
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'All Labor Has Dignity' (King Legacy)

By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Beacon Press: January 2012

Seller ID: 206017

ISBN: 0807086029

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A few pages have pencil marks.
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30 Years of the Freedom Charter

By: Raymond Suttner

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr: January 1987

Seller ID: 6647

ISBN: 0869752995

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Dancer in the Revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club (Empire State Editions)

By: Howard Eugene Johnson

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Fordham University Press: April 2014

Seller ID: 92868

ISBN: 0823256537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed "Stretch" because of his height (6'5"), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of African Americans who transformed the United States from a closed society to a multiracial democracy. Johnson's long-awaited memoir traces his path from firstborn of a multiclass/multiethnic" family in New Jersey to dancer in Harlem's Cotton Club to communist youth leader and, later, professor of Black studies. A Dancer in the Revolution is a powerful statement about Black resilience and triumph amid subtle and explicit racism in the United States. View More...

A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

By: Jones, Jacqueline

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Basic Books: June 2015

Seller ID: 272245

ISBN: 0465055672

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In 1656, a Maryland planter tortured and killed an enslaved man named Antonio, an Angolan who refused to work in the fields. Three hundred years later, Simon P. Owens battled soul-deadening technologies as well as the fiction of race that divided him from his co-workers in a Detroit auto-assembly plant. Separated by time and space, Antonio and Owens nevertheless shared a distinct kind of political vulnerability; they lacked rights and opportunities in societies that accorded marked privileges to people labeled white.
An American creation myth posits that these two black men were the victim...
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Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle (New York State Study)

By: Milton C. Sernett

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Syracuse University Press: July 1986

Seller ID: 183102

ISBN: 0815623704

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

About Face: Race in Postmodern America

By: Simone T. Malikalim

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Autonomedia: November 1992

Seller ID: 7306

ISBN: 0936756357

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Simone melds the theoretical insights of postmodernists like Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Derrida with Afrocentric ethnology, psychology, and anthropology to expose the political ethics of race and racial experience in contemporary America.
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Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery

By: Patricia Smith

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harvest: November 1999

Seller ID: 212188

ISBN: 0156008548

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A riveting narrative history of America, from the 1607 landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, Africans in America tells the shared history of Africans and Europeans as seen through the lens of slavery. It is told from the point of view of the Africans who arrived in shackles and endured the terrible dichotomy of this new land founded on the ideal of liberty but dedicated to the perpetuation of slavery. Meticulously researched, this book weaves together the experiences of the colonists, slaves, free and fugitive blacks, and abolitionists to present an utterly original document, a s...
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All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America

By: John McWhorter

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Gotham: June 2008

Seller ID: 260705

ISBN: 1592403743

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on race, imparts a scathing look at the hypocrisy of hip-hop?and why its popularity proves that black America must overhaul its politics.
One of the most outspoken voices in America's cultural dialogues, John McWhorter can always be counted on to provide provocative viewpoints steeped in scholarly savvy. Now he turns his formidable intellect to the topic of hip-hop music and culture, smashing the claims that hip-hop is politically valuable because it delivers the only ?real? portrayal of black society.
In this m...
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Anxiety Disorders in African Americans

By: Steven Friedman

Price: $41.95

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company: January 1994

Seller ID: 35702

ISBN: 0826185401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Assimilation Blues: Black Families In White Communities, Who Succeeds And Why (Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies)

By: Beverly Daniel Tatum

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Basic Books: January 2000

Seller ID: 158416

ISBN: 0465083609

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

What does it mean to be Black in a white, middle-class community? Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, rootlessness? What price must one pay for paradise? Is the price too high?Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, interviewed Black families in depth to identify the sacrifices and achievements necessary to survive and prosper in a white community. For the Black citizens of "Sun Beach," dual-income households, religious affiliation, and extended families help maintain stability. But with assimilation comes an insidious...
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

By: Elizabeth Keckley

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press: December 1989

Seller ID: 131097

ISBN: 0195060849

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. As public drama privately experienced, Keckley's work presents Jefferson Davis and his wife, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and even Stephen Douglas and "Mrs. Senator Douglas" in the foreground, with the war, and slavery as the issue that precipitated it, in the background. Through the eyes of this black woman--an ex-slave, seamstress, and dressmaker--we see a wide range of histor...
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Between Father And Son : An African-American Fable

By: ERIC V. COPAGE

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Harpercollins: October 2005

Seller ID: 6350

ISBN: 0060828617

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Thirteen-year-old Jordan Garrison is at a crossroads. He's just about to enter high school, and his biggest worries are his new bottom-of-the-totem-pole status as an incoming freshman and his father's constant lectures about becoming a man. Growing further apart from his younger siblings -- precocious eight-year-old twins -- Jordan thinks his only ally is his grandmother, a hip sixty-two-year-old with a youthful glow that comforts Jordan, especially in the absence of his mother.

But when his widowed father suddenly dies, Jordan finds the journey through puberty to adulthood all the mo...
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Between the World and Me

By: Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau: July 2015

Seller ID: 274127

ISBN: 0812993543

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Dust jacket!
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Between the World and Me

By: Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau: July 2015

Seller ID: 274181

ISBN: 0812993543

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Dust jacket!
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Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics

By: Manning Marable

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Verso: July 1996

Seller ID: 96344

ISBN: 1859840493

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The scourge of racism haunts the United States as persistently as it ever did. Life expectancy for black men is now below retirement age. Average black income is only 56 per cent of that earned by whites. In Washington DC, no less than 43 per cent of black men have been in prison or on parole, and this state of affairs is getting worse, not better. Black admissions to college education are falling, whilst admissions to prisons rise - blacks compise two-thirds of the US prison population while making up only 13 per cent of the entire population.
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Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics)

By: Wright, Richard

Price: $5.98

Publisher: HarperCollins: August 1998

Seller ID: 216775

ISBN: 0060929782

Condition: Used - Good

With an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright' s journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man' s coming off age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America. Superb...The Library of America has insured that most of Wright' s major texts are now available as he wanted them to be tread...Most important of all is the opportunity we now have to hear a great...
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Black Experience in Contemporary America

By: Daniel Boamah-Wiafe

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Bw Wisdom Pubns: January 1990

Seller ID: 6593

ISBN: 0962456780

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Black Nationalism: The Search for an Identity

By: Essien-Udom, E. U.

Price: $17.95

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: July 1995

Seller ID: 271654

ISBN: 0226218538

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light shelf wear.
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Black Panthers For Beginners

By: Herb Boyd

Price: $15.95

Publisher: For Beginners: August 2015

Seller ID: 160281

ISBN: 193999439X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A crowd of onlookers gawked from the sidewalk as four young black men dressed in black leather jackets and berets leaped from a Volkswagen, each of them wielding shotguns with bandoliers strapped across their bodies. The young men surrounded two white police officers who had accosted a black man and had him spread-eagled against a building.

The young men did not say a word as the police officers watched them nervously, their eyes fixed on the shotguns. One of the young men held a large law book in his hand...This was the Black Panther Party in ideal action. The real story--the whol...
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Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class

By: Mary Pattillo-McCoy

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press: October 2000

Seller ID: 128396

ISBN: 0226649296

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the black middle class. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal.

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Black Power 50

By: N/A

Price: $24.95

Publisher: The New Press: February 2016

Seller ID: 93547

ISBN: 1620971488

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion that opened the eyes of millions of people across the globe. In the United States, the movement spread like wildfire: high school and college youth organized black student unions; educators created black studies programs; Black Power conventions gathered thousands of people from all walks of life; and books, journals, bookstores, and publishing companies spread Black Power messages and imagery throughout the country and abroad.

The Black Arts Movement inspired the creation of some eight hundred black the...
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Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste

By: Mark S. Weiner

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Knopf: October 2004

Seller ID: 6116

ISBN: 0375409815

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape our nation.
Spanning the period from colonial times to the present, "Black Trials" tells how the place of blacks in American society evolved through the actions of our courts of law. Some of the cases discussed are legendary, such as the ordeal of John Brown, the fiery abolitionist who was hanged for raiding Harpers Ferry in order to equip an army of insurgent slaves. Some are forgotten, such as that of Joseph Hanno, an eighteenth-century free black man c...
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

By: Patrick Phillips

Price: $15.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2017

Seller ID: 153471

ISBN: 0393354733

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white "night riders" launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. The charred ruins of...
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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

By: Randy Roberts, Johnny Smith

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Basic Books: October 2016

Seller ID: 93096

ISBN: 0465093221

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The first book to bring to life the influential friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
In 1962, no one believed that the obnoxious Cassius Clay would ever become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X saw the potential in Clay, not just for boxing greatness, but as a means of spreading the Nation of Islam's radical message. Malcolm secretly molded Clay into Muhammad Ali--a patriotic boxing star in public, and a radical reformer behind the scenes. Soon, however, their friendship would sour, with disastrous and far-reaching consequences.
Based on previously unta...
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Born along the Color Line: The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement

By: Eben Miller

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: February 2012

Seller ID: 188437

ISBN: 0195174550

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B. DuBois would mingle with "the coming leaders of Negro thought." It was a fascinating encounter that would transform the civil rights movement.

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Born in a Mighty Bad Land : The Violent Man in African American Folklore and Fiction

By: JERRY H. BRYANT

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr: April 2003

Seller ID: 87830

ISBN: 0253215781

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like "Stagolee" and "John Hardy," as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced "gangsta" rap. "Born in a Mighty Bad Land" connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction. Many writers--McKay and Hurston in the Harlem Renaissance; Wright, Baldwin, and Ellison in the '40s and '50s; Himes in the '50s and '60s--saw the "bad nigger" as an archetypal figure in the black imagination and psyche. "Blaxploitation" novels in the '...
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Amistad: February 2006

Seller ID: 97437

ISBN: 0060524316

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change
The civil war brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what would come to be known as the Underground Railroad, a movement that occupies as romantic a place in the nation's imagination as the Lewis and Clark expedition. The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and p...
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Class and Race in Cities and Suburbs

By: Leo F. Schnore

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Markham Publishing Company: 1972

Seller ID: 3296

ISBN: 9110001565

Binding: New Trade

Condition: New - New

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Colored People: A Memoir

By: Gates Jr., Henry Louis

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Knopf: May 1994

Seller ID: 272624

ISBN: 0679421793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vols. 1-4

By: Jawanza Kunjufu

Price: $18.95

Publisher: African American Images: April 2004

Seller ID: 14654

ISBN: 0913543969

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Advice for parents, educators, community, and church members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. This book answers such questions as Why are there more black boys in remedial and special education classes than girls? Why are more girls on the honour roll? When do African American boys see a positive black male role model? Is the future of black boys in the hands of their mothers and white female teachers? and When does a boy become a man? The significance of rite of passage activities, includin...
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Crossing the Boundary: Black Women Survive Incest

By: Melba Wilson

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Seal Press: February 1994

Seller ID: 46648

ISBN: 1878067427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Crossing the Boundary: Black Women Survive Incest

By: Melba Wilson

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Seal Press: February 1994

Seller ID: 47176

ISBN: 1878067427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

By: Thomas, Sheree R.

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Aspect: July 2001

Seller ID: 275227

ISBN: 0446677248

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers to the generations of readers who have not had the chance to explore the scope and diversity among African-American writers.
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Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America

By: Douglas R. Egerton

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 2009

Seller ID: 153838

ISBN: 0195306694

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston's elite. More important, he recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reforme...
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Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America

By: Douglas R. Egerton

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 2009

Seller ID: 154471

ISBN: 0195306694

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston's elite. More important, he recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reforme...
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EROTIQUE NOIRE

By: Decosta-Willis, Miriam

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Doubleday: August 1992

Seller ID: 269767

ISBN: 038542308X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Good hardcover with dustjacket Ex Library
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Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture

By: Greg Tate

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Broadway Books: September 2003

Seller ID: 214245

ISBN: 076791497X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

White kids from the 'burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that's giving our nation a racial-identity crisis?

Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer's controversial essay "The White Negro," Everything but the Burden brings together voices from music, popular culture, the literary world, and the media speaking about how from Brooklyn to the Badlands white people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and...
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By: Blight, David W.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: January 2020

Seller ID: 275668

ISBN: 1416590323

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Smithsonian Magazine.
"Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by...
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

By: Raymond Arsenault

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: March 2011

Seller ID: 57873

ISBN: 0199754314

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders, Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed and tautly written account. With characters and plot lines rivaling those of the most imaginative fiction, this is a tale of heroic sacrifice and unexpected triumph. Arsenault recounts how a ...
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