Focusing on the NAACP's campaign for voting rights, Manfred Berg challenges the legalistic and bureaucratic image of the NAACP and reveals a resourceful, dynamic, and politically astute organization that did much to open up the electoral process to greater black participation."
Focusing on the NAACP's campaign for voting rights, Manfred Berg challenges the legalistic and bureaucratic image of the NAACP and reveals a re...
"Through the political biography of George W. Murray, one sees the myriad forces arrayed against southern Republicanism in the late nineteenth century and also witnesses the trials and tribulations one of the major African American political leaders faced in the quest for racial justice in the new South."--Bernard Powers, College of Charleston Born a slave in 1850s South Carolina and elected to Congress in the 1890s, George W. Murray appeared to be the antithesis of the African American male in the Jim Crow South and served as a beacon for African Americans who saw their hopes crushed in...
"Through the political biography of George W. Murray, one sees the myriad forces arrayed against southern Republicanism in the late nineteenth century...
"A comprehensive and challenging assessment of southern charitable practices. Viewing poor relief in terms of what the agencies did, Lockley downplays theory-laden approaches that focus exclusively on what laws and elites said."--T. Stephen Whitman, Mt. St. Mary's University
Public welfare in the United States has existed in one form or another since the colonial period. Most historical investigations into the practice tend to focus on urban settings, mostly in the North. Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South offers a much-needed counterpoint, revealing both the breadth...
"A comprehensive and challenging assessment of southern charitable practices. Viewing poor relief in terms of what the agencies did, Lockley downpl...
"Alexander's important documentary edition restores T. Thomas Fortune's central place in African American thought and activism during the age of Jim Crow. His well-executed edition is essential for all college, university, and public library collections. --John David Smith, University of North Carolina, Charlotte "Fortune is one of the most significant figures in American history, not just African American history. Alexander has created a reader that permits all of us to hear from one of the most remarkable and contemporary-sounding voices black America has produced."--James P. Danky,...
"Alexander's important documentary edition restores T. Thomas Fortune's central place in African American thought and activism during the age of Jim C...
"Simon Wendt's The Spirit and the Shotgunfinally brings the story of armed self-defense into its rightful place in the history of the civil rights movement. This well-researched book will deepen our understanding of the ways in which defensive protection complemented nonviolent protests in many southern locales. . . . No other work in the field has outlined the history of armed self-defense in as complete and compelling a manner."--Renee C. Romano, Wesleyan University
"A really fine contribution to African American history and to the history of the black struggle for equality....
"Simon Wendt's The Spirit and the Shotgunfinally brings the story of armed self-defense into its rightful place in the history of the civil ...
"A thorough, sympathetic, fair, and balanced treatment of an important topic. Through careful research, Hornsby-Gutting brings a searching analysis to the cultural responses of black male leaders to disenfranchisement and Jim Crow segregation."--Paul David Escott, Wake Forest University "Hornsby-Gutting's examination of the involvement of black men in the institutional life of their turn-of-the-century North Carolina communities expands our understanding of gendered activism in the Jim Crow South."--Beverly G. Bond, University of Memphis Historical treatments of race during the...
"A thorough, sympathetic, fair, and balanced treatment of an important topic. Through careful research, Hornsby-Gutting brings a searching analys...
"An invaluable study of Richmond's antebellum justice system."--Sally E. Hadden, Florida State University "Not only demonstrates the law's clear bias in favor of the power of slaveholders and the defense of slavery, but also gives us vivid scenes of slaves, free blacks, and working-class whites negotiating and sometimes contesting society's class and color lines before the bar."--Gregg D. Kimball, Library of Virginia By the mid-nineteenth century, Richmond was one of the preeminent industrial centers in the South, with a level of criminal activity that reflected its size. Slavery...
"An invaluable study of Richmond's antebellum justice system."--Sally E. Hadden, Florida State University "Not only demonstrates the law's clear ...
A fresh and inventive method of presenting some lesser-known aspects of slavery to both scholars and students. Ronald Traylor, Southeastern Louisiana University
Pargas redefines the meaning of slave agency to examine the varying ability of enslaved workers to shape and protect their domestic arrangements. Larry Hudson, University of RochesterThe Quarters and the Fields offers a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural...
A fresh and inventive method of presenting some lesser-known aspects of slavery to both scholars and students. Ronald Traylor, Southeastern Louisi...
How did the political party of Lincoln--of emancipation--become the party of the South and of white resentment? How did Jefferson Davis s old party become the preferred choice for most southern blacks? Most scholars date these transformations to the administrations of Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan. Edward Frantz challenges this myopic view by closely examining the complex and often contradictory rhetoric and symbolism utilized by Republicans between 1877 and 1933.
Presidential journeys throughout the South were public rituals that provided a platform for the issues of...
How did the political party of Lincoln--of emancipation--become the party of the South and of white resentment? How did Jefferson Davis s old party...
Demonstrates how the jail, no bail tactic moved the movement from a response to a crisis to an event that drew media notice and focused the country s attention on the injustice of segregation. Choice Examines the history of the civil rights movement and the criminal justice system beyond the court rooms and into the arrests, jail cells, and prisons that were the locus of grassroots protests and organizing. Robert Cassanello, author of To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South JacksonvilleIn this book, Zoe Colley follows civil rights...
Demonstrates how the jail, no bail tactic moved the movement from a response to a crisis to an event that drew media notice and focused the country s ...
