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  • Chance or Circumstance?

    A Memoir and Journey Through the Struggle for Civil Rights

    by James Mapp ...
    When it comes to issues of race and color of ones skin, ignorance and racism persist to this day. Its necessary to make connections from the past to erase the veil of ignorance. In Chance or Circumstance?, author James R. Mapp offers an account of the history of race relations and the road to desegregation and open accommodations in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from the 1960s to the present. This ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Remembering Jim Crow

    African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

    This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

    How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

    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

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $15.99 USD

  • Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County

    A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle

    by Kristen Green ...
    The provocative true story of one Virginia school system's refusal to integrate after the US Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional.A New York Times BestsellerA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearIn the wake of the Supreme Court's unanimous Brown v. Board of Education decision, Virginia's Prince Edward County refused to obey the law. Rather than desegregate, the count... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Autobiography of Medgar Evers

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

    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

    $11.99 USD

  • Alabama v. King

    Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement

    "Poignant, sometimes harrowing." –Wall Street JournalThe defense lawyer for Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, the Selma marchers, and other civil rights heroes reveals the true story of the historic trial that made Dr. King a national hero.Fred D. Gray was just twenty-four years old when he became the defense lawyer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young minister who had become the face of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • On the Road to Freedom

    A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

    This in-depth look at the civil rights movement goes to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathered in churches; where they spoke, taught, and organized; where they were arrested, where they lost their lives, and where they triumphed.Award-winning journalist Charles E. Cobb Jr., a former organizer and field secretary for SNCC (Student Nonviolent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Alone atop the Hill

    The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press

    The memoir of "the first African American female reporter to gain entry into the closed society of the White House and congressional news correspondents" (Hank Klibanoff, coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Race Beat).In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper's daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation's capital and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vernon Can Read!

    A Memoir

    As a young college student in Atlanta, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. had a summer job driving a white banker around town. During the man’s post-luncheon siestas, Jordan passed the time reading books, a fact that astounded his boss. “Vernon can read!” the man exclaimed to his relatives. Nearly fifty years later, Vernon Jordan, now a senior executive at Lazard Freres, long-time civil rights leader, adviser ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Woman of Steele

    A Personal and Political Journal

    Woman of Steele: A Personal and Political Journal, gives us an inside look at Bobbie L. Steeles view of her early farm life in Mississippi, her challenges as a teen, and her drive and determination to fulfill her dream of completing college. She accomplished this goal in spite of marriage and the blessing of five children before finishing college and two more after..Steele let us in on personal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Open Wide The Freedom Gates

    A Memoir

    Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, someone whose personal ambition was secondary to her passion for her cause, she has received little mainstream recognition -- until now. In her memoir, Dr. Height, now ninety-one, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD