John Brown still lives! : America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change by Gilpin, R. Blakeslee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America -- Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown -- The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero -- Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown -- A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown -- Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP -- The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benét and the silencing of John Brown's body -- The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South -- Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown -- Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history -- Epilogue. …”


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John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change by Gilpin, R. Blakeslee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America -- Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown -- The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero -- Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown -- A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown -- Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP -- The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benét and the silencing of John Brown's body -- The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South -- Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown -- Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history -- Epilogue. …”
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The boys of Baraka

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The boys of Baraka

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Sunday morning. Opinion : Nancy Giles on Shirley Sherrod

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A Struggle for educational equality 1950-1980

Table of Contents: “…Educational Inequalities in 1950 (2:25) -- Racial Segregation and the N.A.A.C.P. (6:10) -- Brown vs. Board of Education (3:20) -- Court Decision Aftermath (4:47) -- Civil Rights Movement (5:52) -- Mexican-American Struggles (3:14) -- Chicano Civil Rights Movement (5:27) -- Bilingual Education (2:47) -- Gender Equality (5:03) -- Title IX and Disabilities Act (4:10) -- Controversy Over Bussing (3:57) -- Education Reform (4:22) -- Parents (0:12) -- test (0:25) -- Rev. …”
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A Struggle for educational equality : 1950-1980

Table of Contents: “…Educational Inequalities in 1950 (2:25) -- Racial Segregation and the N.A.A.C.P. (6:10) -- Brown vs. Board of Education (3:20) -- Court Decision Aftermath (4:47) -- Civil Rights Movement (5:52) -- Mexican-American Struggles (3:14) -- Chicano Civil Rights Movement (5:27) -- Bilingual Education (2:47) -- Gender Equality (5:03) -- Title IX and Disabilities Act (4:10) -- Controversy Over Bussing (3:57) -- Education Reform (4:22) -- Parents (0:12) -- test (0:25) -- Rev. …”
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The Spingarn Brothers : white privilege, Jewish heritage, and the struggle for racial equality by Chaddock, Katherine Reynolds, 1945-

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Episode 3: Don't Shout Too Soon (1917-1940).

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Coming of age in Mississippi by Moody, Anne, 1940-2015

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Towards a new past : dissenting essays in American history

Table of Contents: “…. -- Antislavery legacy: from reconstruction to the NAACP / James M. McPherson. -- Urbanization, migration and social mobility in late nineteenth-century America / Stephan Thernstrom. -- American expansion 1870-1900: the far east / Marilyn Blatt Young. -- American foreign policy 1900-1921: a second look at the realist critique of American diplomacy / Lloyd C. …”


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From plantation to ghetto : an interpretive history of American Negroes by Meier, August, 1923-2003, Rudwick, Elliott M.

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Without sanctuary : lynching photography in America by Allen, James, 1954-

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The Black list by Evans, Neal

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Race, rape, and injustice : documenting and challenging death penalty cases in the civil rights era by Foerster, Barrett J., 1942-2010

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The Black list [volume 2] by Evans, Neal

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Window on freedom : race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988

Table of Contents: “…Seen from the outside : the international perspective on America's dilemma / Paul Gordon Lauren -- Race from power : U.S. foreign policy and the general crisis of white supremacy / Gerald Horne -- Brown babies : race, gender, and policy after World War II / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- Bleached souls and Red Negroes : the NAACP and Black Communists in the early Cold War, 1948-1952 / Cary Fraser -- An American dilemma : race and realpolitik in the American response to the Bandung Conference, 1955 / Cary Fraser -- Segregationists and the world : the foreign policy of the white resistance / Thomas Noer -- The unwelcome mat : African diplomats in Washington, D.C., during the Kennedy years / Michael Krenn -- Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the image of America : international influence on U.S. civil rights politics in the Kennedy administration / Mary L. …”


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Courage to dissent : Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement by Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…"Aren't going to let a nigger practice in our courts" : the milieu of civil rights pragmatism -- The roots of pragmatism : voting rights activism inside and outside the courts, 1944-1957 -- Housing markets, Black and White : negotiating the postwar housing crisis, 1944-1959 -- "Segregation pure and simple" : school, community, and the NAACP's education litigation, 1942-1958 -- More than "polite segregation" : Brown in public spaces, 1954-1959 -- Seeking redress in the streets : the student movement's challenge to racial pragmatism and legal liberalism, 1960-1961 -- A volatile alliance : the marriage of lawyers and demonstrators, 1961-1964 -- Local people as agents of constitutional change : the movement against "private" discrimination, and the countermobilization, 1963-1964 -- "New politics" : law, organizing, and a "movement of movements" in the Southern ghetto, 1965-1967 -- A curious silence : community activism and the legal campaign to implement Brown, 1958-1968 -- An end to an "annual agony" : the backlash against Brown and busing, 1969-1974 -- "Bus them to Philadelphia" : a feminist lawyer and poor mothers crusade to redeem Brown, 1972-1980.…”


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Secrets of the Hollow, Last Disintegrated School

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Portrait of Medgar Evers.

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