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  • Mississippi Politics

    The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008, Second Edition

    by Jere Nash, Andy Taggart ...
    Originally published in 2006, Mississippi Politics quickly became the definitive work on the state's recent political history, campaigns, legislative battles, and litigation, as well as how Mississippi shaped and was shaped by national and regional trends.A central theme of the 2006 edition was the state's gradual transition from a Democratic surety to a Republican stronghold. For this updated ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Mississippi Politics

    The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008, Second Edition

    by Jere Nash, Andy Taggart ...
    Originally published in 2006, Mississippi Politics quickly became the definitive work on the state's recent political history, campaigns, legislative battles, and litigation, as well as how Mississippi shaped and was shaped by national and regional trends.A central theme of the 2006 edition was the state's gradual transition from a Democratic surety to a Republican stronghold. For this updated ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • The Struggle for Black Equality

    by Harvard Sitkoff ...
    The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Eyes on the Prize

    America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

    by Juan Williams ...
    Series series Eyes on the Prize
    Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v*. the Board of Education* case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Protest at Selma

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    by David J. Garrow ...
    A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the CrossVivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow's account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of Medgar Evers

    A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches

    by Myrlie Evers-Williams, Manning Marable ...
    On the evening of June 12, 1963 -- the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance "Medgar Evers, the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet in his driveway. The still-smoking gun -- bearing the fingerprints of Byron De La Beckwith, a staunch white supremacist -- was recovered moments ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • White Flight

    Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

    by Kevin M. Kruse ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

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  • Our Unfinished March

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

    by Eric Holder, Sam Koppelman ...
    A brutal, bloody, and at times hopeful history of the vote; a primer on the opponents fighting to take it away; and a playbook for how we can save our democracy before it’s too late—from the former U.S. Attorney General on the front lines of this fightVoting is our most important right as Americans—“the right that protects all the others,” as Lyndon Johnson famously said when he signed the Voting ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Bending Toward Justice

    The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy

    by Gary May ...
    When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer terror and insidious devices such as complex literacy tests and expensive poll taxes. Most African ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Beaches, Blood, and Ballots

    A Black Doctorâ??s Civil Rights Struggle

    by M.D., Gilbert R. Mason, James Patterson Smith ...
    This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Newly opened by court order, documents from the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission's secret files enhance this riveting memoir written by a major civil rights figure in Mississippi. He joined his friends and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich

    Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy

    by Mary Frances Berry ...
    A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participationThough voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations with limited hours are a few of the ways voter turnout is suppressed. These methods of voter suppression are ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Turning Point

    A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age

    by Jimmy Carter ...
    “A yarn of corruption, demagogy, and Southern charm worthy of Robert Penn Warren.”—The Washington PostFormer President Jimmy Carter shares his personal tale of political intrigue and social conflict during his first campaign for public office. He illuminates the origins of his commitment to human rights and bears further witness to the accomplishments of an extraordinary man. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD