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  • Tupelo Man

    The Life and Times of George McLean, a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher

    by Robert Blade ...
    Series series Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
    In 1924, George McLean, an Ole Miss sophomore and the spoiled son of a judge, attended a YMCA student mission conference whose free-thinking organizers aimed to change the world. They changed George McLean's.But not instantly. As vividly recounted in the first biography of this significant figure in Southern history, Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher, McLean ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Tupelo Man

    The Life and Times of George McLean, a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher

    by Robert Blade ...
    Series series Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
    In 1924, George McLean, an Ole Miss sophomore and the spoiled son of a judge, attended a YMCA student mission conference whose free-thinking organizers aimed to change the world. They changed George McLean's.But not instantly. As vividly recounted in the first biography of this significant figure in southern history, Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher, McLean ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Children's Source Monitoring

    Edited by Kim P. Roberts, Mark Blades ...
    There are many aspects of life which require us to distinguish between memories of different events, such as deciding whether you locked the door or only intended to lock the door. Source monitoring, or identifying the source of a particular memory (was the event experienced? related by someone else? or simply imagined?) is a cognitive skill that develops across the life span. In this book, the ... Read more

    $53.58 CAD

  • A Shakespeare Miscellany

    by Rudyard Kipling, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Crane, Anna Benneson McMahan, William Blades, Robert G. Ingersoll, Francis A. Smith ...
    Series Book 9 - Shakespeare
    A Shakespeare MiscellanyThis volume, number 9 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, provides some supporting information not readily available and not included in any of the the other volumes in this important series.  Note that some of the authors cannot even agree on the spelling of Shakespeare’s name.“How Shakspeare Came to Write the ‘Tempest,” by Rudyard Kipling, with an ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

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  • The Children

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    "The early days of the civil-rights movement come to life as never before" in this history from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( Wall Street Journal ).The young men and women at the heart of David Halberstam's brilliant and poignant The Children came together through Reverend James Lawson's workshops on nonviolence. Idealistic and determined, they showed unwavering bravery during the sit-ins at ... Read more

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  • The Race Beat

    The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s.Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a ... Read more

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  • Our Kind of People

    Inside America's Black Upper Class

    by Lawrence Otis Graham ...
    "Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger American picture." —New York TimesDebutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of America’s Black ... Read more

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  • Freedom Summer

    The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

    by Bruce Watson ...
    A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

    How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

    by Charles E Cobb Jr. ...
    Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend's Montgomery, Alabama home as "an arsenal."Like King, many ostensibly "nonviolent" civil rights activists embraced ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Freedom in the Family

    A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights

    by Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due ...
    Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless foot soldiers, and its achievements—and an incisive examination of the future of ... 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

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