wyszukanych pozycji: 28
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Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement : White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses
ISBN: 9780813031620 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Nowhere else can one read about how Brown v. Board of Education transformed higher education on campus after campus, in state after state, across the South. And no other book details the continuing struggle to change each school in the years that followed the enrollment of the first African American students.Institutions of higher education long functioned as bastions of white supremacy and black exclusion. Against the walls of Jim Crow and the powers of state laws, black southerners--prospective students, their parents and families, their lawyers and their communities--struggled to...
Nowhere else can one read about how Brown v. Board of Education transformed higher education on campus after campus, in state after state, acro...
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237,49 |
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Atlanta Riot : Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City
ISBN: 9780813027876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gregory Mixon traces the roots of the Atlanta Riot of 1906, exploring the intricate political, social, and urban conditions that led to one of the defining events of race relations in southern and African-American history. On September 22, 1906, several thousand white Atlantans rioted, ostensibly because they believed that black men had committed "repeated assaults on the white women of Fulton County," according to newspapers at the time. Four days after the massacre began, 32 people had died and 70 were wounded.Mixon acknowledges the traditional interpretation of factors that precipitated...
Gregory Mixon traces the roots of the Atlanta Riot of 1906, exploring the intricate political, social, and urban conditions that led to one of the def...
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237,49 |
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Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina : The Culture of Violence in Riot and War
ISBN: 9780813020952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Wayne Lee examines how a scoiety shapes, directs, restrains, understands, and reacts to violence, with particular attention to riot and war in 18th-century North Carolina.
Wayne Lee examines how a scoiety shapes, directs, restrains, understands, and reacts to violence, with particular attention to riot and war in 18th-ce...
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237,49 |
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Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland
ISBN: 9780813026381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Civil War on Race Street, so named because Race Street was the road that divided blacks and whites in Cambridge, Maryland, is a detailed examination of one of the most vibrant locally based struggles for racial equality during the 1960s. Beginning with an overview of Cambridge, particularly its history of racial and class relations, Peter Levy traces the emergence of the modern civil rights movement in this city on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Catalyzed by the arrival of freedom in 1962, the movement in Cambridge expanded in 1963 and 1964 under the leadership of Gloria Richardson, one of the...
Civil War on Race Street, so named because Race Street was the road that divided blacks and whites in Cambridge, Maryland, is a detailed examination o...
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237,49 |
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Everybody's Problem: The War on Poverty in Eastern North Carolina
ISBN: 9780813054971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Offers a new interpretation of the war on poverty by demonstrating the centrality of moderate local leadership (both white and black) in launching and operating antipoverty programs."--Marisa Chappell, author of The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America "Hawkins has done a remarkable job of mining the sources and reconstructing the reality of what was going on in eastern North Carolina."--Frank Stricker, author of Why America Lost the War on Poverty--And How to Win It While many scholars have argued that confrontation and protest were the most effective ways for the...
"Offers a new interpretation of the war on poverty by demonstrating the centrality of moderate local leadership (both white and black) in launching an...
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336,44 |
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Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege : White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era
ISBN: 9780813027265 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "An important new dimension to the study of civil rights and southern society. The essays] chronicle the mostly untold story of southern white women--wives, mothers, club members--who possessed the moral courage to challenge Jim Crow traditions."--Jack Davis, University of Alabama, Birmingham "Rich and insightful assessments of southern white women of privilege who chose to throw off the mantle of protection provided by race in order to address critical issues in southern society and politics."--Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University While playing the southern lady for the white... "An important new dimension to the study of civil rights and southern society. The essays] chronicle the mostly untold story of southern white wom... |
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237,49 |
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Religion and the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780195121285 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American...
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American C...
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779,69 |
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Religion and the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780195121292 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American...
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American C...
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320,34 |