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  • A Campaign of Quiet Persuasion

    How the College Board Desegregated SAT® Test Centers in the Deep South, 1960-1965

    de Jan Bates Wheeler ...
    Series series Making the Modern South
    In 1960, the College Entrance Examination Board became an unexpected participant in the movement to desegregate education in the South. Working with its partner, Educational Testing Services, the College Board quietly integrated its Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) centers throughout the Deep South. Traveling from state to state, taking one school district and even one school at a time, two College ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Bearing the Cross

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    de David J. Garrow ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr.In this monumental account of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., professor and historian David Garrow traces King's evolution from young pastor who spearheaded the 1955–56 bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama, to inspirational leader of America's civil rights movement. Based on extensive research and more than seven ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • MLK: An American Legacy

    Bearing the Cross, Protest at Selma, and The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.

    de David J. Garrow ...
    **Three meticulously researched works—including Pulitzer Prize winner Bearing the Cross—spanning the life of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.This collection from professor and historian David J. Garrow provides a multidimensional and fascinating portrait of Martin Luther King Jr., and his mission to upend deeply entrenched prejudices in society, and enact legal change that would achieve ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Eyes on the Prize

    America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

    de Juan Williams ...
    Series series Eyes on the Prize
    Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v*. the Board of Education* case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series. ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Protest at Selma

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Company Town

    The Industrial Eden's and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

    de Hardy Green ...
    Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam -- each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over the population. In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Chocolate City

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Turn Away Thy Son

    Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation

    de Elizabeth Jacoway ...
    Series series Bestselling US History
    An eye-opening, meticulously researched work by a Little Rock native that reveals the story behind the headlines of the famous, school desegregation crisis through thirty years worth of research and interviews.In September 1957, the nation was transfixed by nine Black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • A Treasure Chest of Hidden History

    Fun Facts and Serious Episodes That You May Have Missed in Your American History Class

    de Rusty Glover ...
    As a high school history teacher for the past 25 years, I have collected and read hundreds of books pertaining to my subjects taught. On the completion of each book, I would carefully take notes on the most interesting events, quotes, or interpretations that I felt would enhance instruction for my students. After filling numerous notepads of information on over 800 books, I contemplated a project ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Many Minds, One Heart

    SNCC's Dream for a New America

    de Wesley C. Hogan ...
    How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time. She offers new insights into the internal dynamics of SNCC as well as the workings of the larger civil rights and ... Leer más

    $24.69 USD

  • Long Road to Hard Truth

    The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture

    de Robert Leon Wilkins ...
    In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession-eventually leading him to quit his job as an attorney when his wife was seven months pregnant with their second ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Along Freedom Road

    Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South

    de David S. Cecelski ...
    David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement — the 1968–69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county’s black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community. Parents and students ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD