Lloyd gaines and the fight to end segregation by Endersby, James W.

Table of Contents: “…Charles Houston and the NAACP's legal strategy -- 3. Gaines and losses -- 4. …”
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Race & democracy : the civil rights struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 by Fairclough, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Creole Louisiana -- Race and power in the long era -- The Labor movement, the Left, and the transformation of the NAACP -- Tremors of war -- Brutality and ballots, 1946-1956 -- Race and red-baiting -- The Impact of Brown -- Counterattack -- The New Orleans Schools crisis -- Nonviolent Direct Action, 1960-1962 -- The Movement, 1963-1964 -- North To Bogalusa -- Making rights real -- The Promise and the reality of school integration -- Struggle without end.…”


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The autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois : a soliloquy on viewing my life from the last decade of its first century. by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

Table of Contents: “…My 15th trip abroad -- Western Europe -- The pawned peoples -- The Soviet Union -- China -- My birth and family -- Boyhood in Great Barrington -- I go South -- Harvard in the last decades of the 19th century -- Europe 1892-1894 -- Wilberforce -- University of Pennsylvania -- Atlanta University -- The Niagara movement -- The NAACP -- My character -- The depression -- New Deal for Negroes -- I return to the NAACP -- Work for peace -- An indicted criminal -- The trial -- My tenth decade.…”


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James Weldon Johnson, Black leader, Black voice by Levy, Eugene D.

Table of Contents: “…A Steady, Cool-Headed Boy -- Plain Living and High Thinking: Atlanta University, 1887-1894 -- A Leader and Helper to My Race -- Those Ebony Offenbachs -- The Search for Honor and Fame -- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man -- Finding a New Path -- Paths Cross: Johnson and the NAACP -- Rallying the Cohorts: Johnson as Field Secretary -- Promises and Premises -- The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bil -- Issues and Actions: THe NAACP, 1923-1930 -- The Harlem Renaissance -- My Inner Life is Mine.…”


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Episode 4: Terror and Triumph (1940-1954).

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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Paul Brock.

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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Frances Hooks.

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The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Jerome W. Mondesire.

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A new deal for all? race and class struggles in Depression-era Baltimore by Skotnes, Andor

Table of Contents: “…Communities, culture, and traditions of opposition -- Disrupting the calm : the Communist Party in Baltimore, 1930-1933 -- The city-wide Young People's Forum, 1931-1933 -- Garment workers, socialists, and The People's Unemployment League, late 1932-1934 -- The lynching of George Armwood, late 1933 -- Buy where you can work, 1933-1934 -- The Baltimore Soviet, the ACW, and the PUL, late 1933-1935 -- Seeking directions, 1934-1936 -- The CIO and the first wave, 1936-1937 -- The CIO, the AFL, and the second wave, 1938-1941 -- The new Baltimore NAACP and the metropolitan region, 1936-1941 -- The new Baltimore NAACP and the state and the country, 1936-1941.…”
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Fight for freedom and other writings on civil rights by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Table of Contents: “…FIGHT FOR FREEDOM (1962) : The first decade -- Between wars -- World War II -- Pinning down the law -- Victory poses problems -- Making democracy work -- OTHER WRITINGS ON CIVIL RIGHTS: Brown America in jail: Kilby -- One more conference -- Cowards from the colleges -- Too much of race -- The need for heroes -- What the Negro wants -- What to do now -- Walter White's first Twenty-Five -- Simple and the NAACP -- The accusers' names nobody will remember, but history records Du Bois -- Be your own Santa Claus by putting more civil rights in your stocking -- From Rampart Street to Harlem I follow the trail of the blues -- Langston Hughes speaks -- A sentimental journey to Cairo, Illinois -- Emmett Till, Mississippi, and congressional investigations -- Du Bois greatness has a birthday -- Golden anniversary of the NAACP -- Remarks by Langston Hughes in acceptance of 45th Spingarn Medal.…”
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Let nobody turn us around : voices of resistance, reform, and renewal ; an African American anthology

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Black and blue : African Americans, the labor movement, and the decline of the Democratic party by Frymer, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The dual development of national labor policy -- The NAACP confronts racism in the labor movement -- The legal state -- Labor law and institutional racism -- Conclusion : Law and democracy.…”


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Black and blue : African Americans, the labor movement, and the decline of the Democratic party by Frymer, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The dual development of national labor policy -- The NAACP confronts racism in the labor movement, 1935-1964 -- The legal state and the power of the purse -- Labor law and institutional racism -- Conclusion : Law and democracy.…”
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The modern presidency & civil rights : rhetoric on race from Roosevelt to Nixon by Pauley, Garth E., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Presidents, race, and rhetoric -- Harry Truman and the NAACP -- Dwight Eisenhower against the extremists -- John F. …”


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Black and blue African Americans, the labor movement, and the decline of the Democratic party by Frymer, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The dual development of national labor policy -- The NAACP confronts racism in the labor movement, 1935-1964 -- The legal state and the power of the purse -- Labor law and institutional racism -- Conclusion : Law and democracy.…”
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Eyes off the prize : the United Nations and the African American struggle for human rights, 1944-1955 by Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the struggle for black equality -- Beyond Civil Rights: the NAACP, the United Nations, and redefining the struggle for black equality -- The struggle for human rights: African Americans petition the United Nations -- Things fall apart -- Bleached souls and red negroes -- The mirage of victory -- Epilogue: the prize.…”


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The gender of racial politics and violence in America : lynching, prison rape, & the crisis of masculinity by Pinar, William F.

Table of Contents: “…pt. 4 Men and racial politics -- The N.A.A.C.P and the struggle for antilynching legilation, 1897-1917 -- The N.A.A.C.P and the struggle for antilynching federal legislation, 1917-1950 -- The communist party/N.A.A.C.P. rivalry in the trials of the Scottsboro nine -- pt. 5 The culture and racial politics of masculinity -- The gender of violence -- Black men : you don't even know who I am -- White men : I don't even know who I am -- It's a man's world -- Claude Neal's revenge -- pt. 6 The gender of racial politics and violence in America -- Into each other's arms -- I am a man : the queer character of racial politics and violence in America -- Appendix : The great long national shame : selected incidents of racial violence in the United States.…”


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Beyond the Rodney King story : an investigation of police conduct in minority communities

Table of Contents: “…NAACP, CJI trotter -- Methodology of the report -- Police conduct and community relations: Defining the problem -- The important of race -- The socialization of police officers -- Findings -- Racism is a central part of police misconduct -- Citizens experience police abuse in a wide variety of forms -- Police department have only begun to address police abuse and have failed to track or discipline officers who are repeat offenders -- Civilians seldom prevail in complaints against police officers -- There seem to be a correlation between the race of officer, the race of the citizen, and the incidence of abuse -- There is an "Us versus them" mentality in police-community relations -- Police departments are beginning to respond to the needs of the communiy in police training programs -- Racism has a detrimental effect on law enforcement -- Recommendations for change -- There must be sweeping change in the concept of policing -- There must be greater police accountability -- There must be a real commitment to diversity in hiring -- Police departments must evaluate criteria for recruitment and hiring -- It is essential to offer continuing training and education -- Promotion and advancement criteria must be reevaluated -- A community-oriented policing appraoch should be adopted by all police departments -- Some form of civilian review must be adopted by all police departments.…”


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Unjust deeds : the restrictive covenant cases and the making of the civil rights movement by Gonda, Jeffrey D.

Table of Contents: “…Covenants: race and housing in the 1940s -- Courtrooms : local lawyers and legal activism -- The NAACP : national leadership and housing desegregation -- To Washington : the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court -- Failures and foundations: the covenant cases and postwar black freedom struggles.…”
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