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  • Like a Family

    The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

    Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an ... Leer más

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  • Civil Rights Unionism

    Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

    Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all ... Leer más

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  • Fragile Democracy

    The Struggle over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina

    America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circumstances. Conservatives speak in ominous tones of voter fraud so widespread that it threatens public trust in elected government. Progressives counter that fraud is rare and that calls for reforms such as voter ID are part of a campaign to shrink the ... Leer más

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  • To Right These Wrongs

    The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America

    When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the “tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt.” Illustrated with evocative photographs by Billy Barnes, To Right These Wrongs offers a lively account of this pioneering effort in America’s War on Poverty.Robert Korstad and James ... Leer más

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    Fragile Democracy

    The Struggle over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina

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    America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circumstances. Conservatives speak in ominous tones of voter fraud so widespread that it threatens public trust in elected government. Progressives counter that fraud is rare and that calls for reforms such as voter ID are part of a campaign to shrink the ... Leer más

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  • Let the People Pick the President

    The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College

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    The veteran journalist presents "an illuminating history and analysis" of the American electoral system—and a bold call for change ( Kirkus).The framers of the Constitution battled over it. Lawmakers have tried to amend or abolish it more than 700 times. To this day, millions of voters, and even members of Congress, misunderstand how it works. It deepens our national divide and distorts the core ... Leer más

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  • Injustices

    The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

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  • Brown v. Board of Education

    A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

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  • Whites, Blacks, and Racist Democrats

    The Untold Story of Race and Politics Within the Democratic Party

    On March 18, 2008, after the Jeremiah Wright incident, Senator Barack Obama went on national television and delivered what many called one of the most inspiring and thought provoking speeches ever delivered on the issue of race. After the speech, several news organizations reported that it was time for America to engage in discussions on race. Over the years, we have had several discussions on the ... Leer más

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  • One Person, One Vote

    A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America

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  • Our Unfinished March

    The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan

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