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15 produkter
Makers Of the 20th Century: Martin Luther King
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Part of a series of biographies of statesmen and women who have shaped the modern world, this book concerns Martin Luther King, who from both the pulpit and from jail, inspired black Americans to defy white supremacy and in so doing, re-invigorated American democracy.
Class of Their Own
Black Teachers in the Segregated South
Inbunden, 2007
432 kr
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In this major undertaking, civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later. No book until now has provided us with the full story of what African American teachers tried, achieved, and …
Bulldozed and Betrayed
Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876
Inbunden, 2021
587 kr
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Prior to the 2020 presidential election, historians considered the disputed 1876 contest—which pitted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes against Democrat Samuel J. Tilden—the most controversial in American history. Examining the work and conclusions of the Potter Committee, the congressional body …
Revolution that Failed
Reconstruction in Natchitoches
E-bok, 2018
534 kr
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"A masterful and revelatory examination of Reconstruction populated by a cast of compelling characters who leap to life in all their glory, gore, and pathos."--Lawrence N. Powell, author of The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans "Illuminates a complex period, city, and state and advances a …
Revolution That Failed
Reconstruction in Natchitoches
Inbunden, 2018
357 kr
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The chaotic years after the Civil War are often seen as a time of uniquely American idealism – a revolutionary attempt to rebuild the nation that paved the way for the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. But Adam Fairclough rejects this prevailing view, challenging prominent historians …
Martin Luther King Jr.
Häftad, 1995
422 kr
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During a public career spanning only twelve years, Martin Luther King Jr. transformed the South—and the nation—and reinvigorated American democracy. From the pulpit and from jail, he inspired African Americans to rebel against white supremacy, nonviolently defying racism, bigotry, and brutality. He …
Teaching Equality
Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow
Inbunden, 2001
443 kr
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In Teaching Equality, Adam Fairclough provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States. Beginning with the close of the Civil War, when “the efforts of the slave regime to prevent black literacy meant that blacks …
To Redeem the Soul of America
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Häftad, 2001
561 kr
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To Redeem the Soul of America looks beyond the towering figure of Martin Luther King, Jr., to disclose the full workings of the organization that supported him. As Adam Fairclough reveals the dynamics within the Southern Christian Leadership Conference he shows how Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Wyatt …
Race and Democracy
The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972
Häftad, 2008
786 kr
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Hailed as one of the best treatments of the civil rights movement, Race and Democracy is also one of the most comprehensive and detailed studies of the movement at the state level. This far-reaching and dramatic narrative ranges in time from the founding of the New Orleans branch of the NAACP in …
Star Creek Papers
Av Horace Mann Bond, Julia W. Bond m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
443 kr
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The Star Creek Papers is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s.When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they entered a world where the legacy of slavery was miscegenation, lingering paternalism, and deadly racism. …
Teaching Equality
Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow
Häftad, 2016
393 kr
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In Teaching Equality, Adam Fairclough provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States. Beginning with the close of the Civil War, when “the efforts of the slave regime to prevent black literacy meant that blacks …
Madam V - Virginia Vernon’s War
Battling to Bring (ENSA) Entertainment to the British Troops
Av Matthew Eaton, Adam Fairclough
Inbunden, 2026
282 kr
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‘Meticulously researched and appropriately entertaining, Madam V dances through the history of ENSA with a light, rapid, airborne step.’ - Clare Mulley, author of Agent ZoIn 1939, at the outbreak of war, 46-year-old Virginia Vernon was recruited to bring morale-boosting entertainment to British …
Madam V - Virginia Vernon's War
Battling to Bring (ENSA) Entertainment to the British Troops
Av Adam Fairclough, Matthew Eaton
E-bok, 2026
227 kr
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''Meticulously researched and appropriately entertaining, Madam V dances through the history of ENSA with a light, rapid, airborne step.'' - Clare Mulley, author of Agent ZoIn 1939, at the outbreak of war, 46-year-old Virginia Vernon was recruited to bring morale-boosting entertainment to British …
