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  • The Selma of the North

    Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee

    by Patrick D. Jones ...
    Between 1958 and 1970, a distinctive movement for racial justice emerged from unique circumstances in Milwaukee. A series of local leaders inspired growing numbers of people to participate in campaigns against employment and housing discrimination, segregated public schools, the membership of public officials in discriminatory organizations, welfare cuts, and police brutality.The Milwaukee ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Detroit

    A Biography

    by Scott Martelle ...
    At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit : A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city ... Read more

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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

    $12.99 USD

  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    by Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • 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

    $26.69 USD

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  • American Pharaoh

    Mayor Richard J. Daley–His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

    by Elizabeth Taylor, Adam Cohen ...
    The story of an American city, an iron-fisted mayor, and an era of protest and turmoil: "Superb . . . one of the finest political biographies of recent years." — Library JournalThis is the story of Mayor Richard J. Daley and his rise from the working-class Irish neighborhood of his childhood to his role as one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American politics. It's a tale of the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Civil Rights Movement

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Young Crusaders

    The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement

    by V.P. Franklin ...
    An authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint for future generations of activists to follow.Some of the most iconic images of the Civil Rights Movement are those of young people engaged in social activism, such as children and teenagers in 1963 being attacked by police in Birmingham with dogs and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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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

    $18.09 USD

  • The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century

    A Social Justice Hall of Fame

    by Peter Dreier ...
    A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted -- because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Movement

    The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
    The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • King of the North

    Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South

    by Jeanne Theoharis ...
    **A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated BookShortlisted 2025, Museum of African American History Stone Book AwardFrom the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.**“Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and sensitive, scholarly insight that Dr. King not only was keenly aware of the history of antiblack racism in the North, but ... Read more

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