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Author
Publisher
Kaepernick Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The former NFL star turned social activist presents 30 essays from political prisoners, grassroots organizers and scholars such as Angela Davis and Dereck Purnell that focus on the police and incarceration abolition movement.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the Civil Rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In the era of Trump, what can we learn from his struggle? "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." --James Baldwin. We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to...
5) King: a life
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was 14 years old. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the civil rights movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the case remain distorted by time and too many tellings. What does justice mean in the resolution of a 66 year-old cold case? In A Few Days Full of Trouble, this question drives a new telling of the story of Emmett Till,...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to "pass" for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the darkest crimes in America and helping to plant the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past."--Provided by publisher.
9) Something must be done about Prince Edward County: a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history-- the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.
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