Steve Fayer
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s In this monumental volume, Henry Hampton, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize, and Steve Fayer, series writer, draw upon nearly ... [... more]
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Ruby Dee from HarperCollins Publishers
Not only is Ruby Dee one of the most respected African-American actors of her day, she was also an important part of the civil rights movement. She is probably best known for her role in A Raisin in the Sun, which she performed on both the stage ... [... more]
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Mary Frances Berry
The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the ... [... more]
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Joseph P. Shapiro
People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century. Joseph P. Shapiro [... more]
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Linda Barrett Osborne
Now in paperback--a personal look at the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s told through dozens of interviews conducted by Washington, D.C., fourth graders with their parents, grandparents, neighbors, and others who helped fight the ... [... more]
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E. Franklin Frazier
Frazier's study of the black church and an essay by Lincoln arguing that the civil rights movement saw the splintering of the traditional black church and the creation of new roles for religion. The Negro Church in America/The Black Church Since ... [... more]
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Casey King
Now in paperback--a personal look at the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s told through dozens of interviews conducted by Washington, D.C., fourth graders with their parents, grandparents, neighbors, and others who helped fight the ... [... more]
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Miriam Gurko
Traces the course of the women's rights movement from its origin in the Seneca Falls Convention through the passage of the Nineteenth Ammendment giving women the right to vote. Ladies of Seneca Falls Miriam Gurko [... more]
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Eldridge Cleaver
The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge ... [... more]
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Harold Cruse
Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation of activists and intellectuals. The product of a lifetime of ... [... more]
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Sara Evans
The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often ... [... more]
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Howell Raines
Before stepping down in 2003, Howell Raines was Executive Editor of the New York Times. He is the author of Whiskey Man, a novel, and My Soul Is Rested, an oral history of the Civil Rights movement. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature ... [... more]
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