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  • Walker County

    by The Walker County Historical Commission, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn ...
    Series series Postcard History Series
    Founded in 1846, Walker County is a scenic, sprawling territory of 800 square miles located in the southeastern region of Texas. Huntsville, the county seat, serves as home to Sam Houston State University, the Texas State Penitentiary, and Huntsville State Park. New Waverly, Riverside, and other smaller towns dot the landscape, which remains rustic and beautiful, with rolling hills, open prairies, ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hampton Roads

    Remembering Our Schools

    by Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Jeffrey Littlejohn, Charles H. Ford, Sonia Yaco, The Norfolk Historical Society ...
    Series series Vintage Images
    With this striking collection of historical images, experience afront-row view of the origination of the public school system within Hampton Roads and the epic struggle for racial equality. From the seventeenth century until the present, this area of the Old Dominion has been at the forefront of challenges, including Reconstruction, Jim Crow law, racial disharmony and public resistance to tax ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • LGBT Hampton Roads

    by Dr. Charles H. Ford, Dr. Jeffrey L. Littlejohn ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    Virginia's Hampton Roads region has long attracted diverse and mobile people, some of whom embraced same-sex love or fluid gender identities long before lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities identified as such. By the mid-1900s, Hampton Roads would lead the state in its development of LGBT institutions and infrastructure. Our Own Press would chronicle the extraordinary burst ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elusive Equality

    Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk's Public Schools

    by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Charles H. Ford ...
    In Elusive Equality, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford place Norfolk, Virginia, at the center of the South's school desegregation debates, tracing the crucial role that Norfolk’s African Americans played in efforts to equalize and integrate the city’s schools. The authors relate how local activists participated in the historic teacher-pay-parity cases of the 1930s and 1940s, how they ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Black Citizens and American Democracy

    Fighting for the Soul of a Nation

    Edited by Reginald K. Ellis, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Peter B. Levy ...
    How Black activism has helped achieve and maintain democracy for all AmericansIn 2020, Black Americans continued a centuries-long pursuit of racial equality and justice in the streets and at the polls. Arguing that this year was not a deviation from the historic Civil Rights Movement, the contributors to this collection examine the important work of Black men and women during the previous decades ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Steeped in a Culture of Violence

    Murder, Racial Injustice, and Other Violent Crimes in Texas, 1965–2020

    by Dr. Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Ashley Baggett, Christopher Haight, Betsy Friauf, Michael Phillips, Mike Tapia, Mitchel P. Roth ...
    Series series Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
    The Texas shooting at Santa Fe High School on May 18, 2018, which killed ten and injured thirteen, prompted public debate over the causes and potential solutions to this type of violent episode. On May 21, 2018, National Rifle Association president Oliver North declared that a culture of violence is largely responsible for these killings. “The problem that we’ve got is we’re trying like the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Enemy Within Never Did Without

    German and Japanese Prisoners of War At Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945

    by Dr. Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Charles H. Ford ...
    Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II. Located roughly eight miles east of Huntsville, Texas, in Walker County, the camp was built in 1942 and opened for prisoners the following year. The camp served as a model site for POW installations across the country and set a high standard for the treatment of prisoners.Between 1943 and 1945, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest

    New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America

    Edited by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Reginald K. Ellis, Peter B. Levy ...
    Series series Southern Dissent
    This volume's contributors expand the chronology and geography of the black freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the Jim Crow South and the years between 1954 and 1968. Beginning as far back as the nineteenth century, and analyzing case studies from southern, northern, and border states, the essays in The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest incorporate communities and topics not ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Queer Virginia

    New Stories in the Old Dominion

    by Charles H. Ford, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn ...
    A new, definitive queer history of the CommonwealthQueer Virginia is a long-needed record of the courageous and creative ways that LGBTQ+ people across the commonwealth have persevered and fought for their rights. The history recovered here is remarkable and illuminating, including the life of Hannah Nokes, a Black transgender woman who overcame severe discrimination in Loudoun County during the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove ...
    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Read more

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  • To Make Our World Anew

    A History of African Americans

    Edited by Robin D. G. Kelley, Earl Lewis ...
    Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is a panoramic view of African American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short ... Read more

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  • Grassroots at the Gateway

    Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75

    by Clarence Lang ...
    Series series Class : Culture
    "This is a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly documented historical case study of the movements for African American liberation in St. Louis. Through detailed analysis of black working class mobilization from the depression years to the advent of Black Power, award-winning historian Clarence Lang describes how the advances made in earlier decades were undermined by a black middle class ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD