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James O'Neil Spady
Take Freedom

In 1822, Black Charlestonians attempted to overthrow slavery. They were exposed before they could strike, and many were tried and executed in what has come to be known as the Denmark Vesey Affair. Take Fr…

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Robert F Williams, Mabel R Williams,
The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams

A gripping portrait of pioneering freedom fighters that is both deeply intimate and a fierce call to action in the ongoing fight against racial injustice in the US.

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Of Salt and Spirit

Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South surveys some of the richly diverse quiltmaking traditions maintained by Black women in the US South during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries…

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Lillian Bullshows Hogan,
The Woman Who Loved Mankind

The oldest living Crow at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan (1905--2003), recounts in traditional Crow storytelling forms her life---including growing up on the Crow reservatio…

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Joxe K Mallea-Olaetxe, Jess Lopategui
More Than Sheepherders

"In the remote community of Elko, Nevada, the Altube brothers and the Garats started fabled ranches in the early 1870s. These hardy citizens created the foundation of a community that still exists to…

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Craig Thompson Friend
Becoming Lunsford Lane

Discover a biography for our times: a man searching to define life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in a changing American society marred by loss of political rights, and racial violence.

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Craig Thurtell
Short of a Revolution

Chronicling the rise and fall of North Carolina's fusion movement, this book illuminates an intricate interplay between politics, economic agendas, and racism. It examines how wealthy agriculturalists, in…

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Sheree Scarborough
Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston

Nannie Berger Hairston was born in West Virginia in 1921, half a century after the end of the Civil War. She attended segregated schools, graduated, married and started a family. When Nannie's husband, Jo…

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Irvin Ibargüen
Caught in the Current

"Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along the border: a 'flow' of immigrants, a 'flood' of documented and undocumented workers, a 'dam' that has b…

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Justin Randolph
Mississippi Law

"In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside as ideas of race, property, and belonging …

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Lina-Maria Murillo
Fighting for Control

The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez have confronted various interest groups determin…

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Carlos Bulosan
America Is in the Heart

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinera…

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Hannah Durkin
The Survivors of the Clotilda

NAMED A TOP BOOK OF 2024 BY AMAZON AND WASHINGTON POST"Hannah Durkin lets the enslaved speak for themselves, and they tell a story not only of unimaginable suffering but also of courage and survival.…

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Brian G Shellum
Buffalo Soldiers in California

Brian G. Shellum follows the experiences of Captain Charles Young and the Ninth Cavalry in California, from life at the Presidio of San Francisco to summers patrolling Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks …

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Marcus S Cox
Segregated Soldiers

In Segregated Soldiers, Marcus S. Cox investigates military training programs at historically black colleges and universities and demonstrates their importance to the struggle for civil rights. Examining …

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Norma E Cantú
Fiestas in Laredo

This book celebrates the many types of fiestas found in the border community of Laredo, Texas. Told from an insider's perspective and blending memoir, ethnography, and a folkloristic analysis, the author …

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Kylie M Smith
Jim Crow in the Asylum

There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Crow era employed African American men and women; …

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Kelli Y Nakamura
Legacies of Incarceration

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi's Japanese by exploring the factors that shaped the circumstances of confinement on each island before, during…

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Kelli Y Nakamura
Legacies of Incarceration

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi's Japanese by exploring the factors that shaped the circumstances of confinement on each island before, during…

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Robert D Bland
Requiem for Reconstruction

The promise of Reconstruction sparked a transformative era in American history as free and newly emancipated Black Americans sought to redefine their place in a nation still grappling with the legacy of s…

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