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Teaching About the Civil Rights Movement: Background Reading

This is a sampling of the vast print resources available on the Civil Rights and related movements for social justice as detailed in Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching (Washington, D.C.: Teaching for Change, 2004).

Visit Teaching for Change's Civil Rights Teaching website for more resources.

Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment (Paperback)

By Steven G. Louie, Glenn K. Omatsu

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780934052344
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Published: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 10/2001

DESCRIPTION: Documents the rich, little-known history of Asian-American social activism during the years 1965-2001. This book examines the period not only through personal accounts and historical analysis, but through the visual record-utilizing historical pictorial materials developed at UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Vietnamese Americans.

Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America (Hardcover)

By Lerone Bennett

$44.95

ISBN-13: 9780874850079
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Published: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1/2007

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DESCRIPTION: Traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey and slavery, the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the Civil Rights Movement, to life in the 1990s.

Brown v. Board of Education: 1954-2004
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DESCRIPTION: A booklet for K-12 classrooms and community groups, which examines the legacy of Brown v Board for Los Angeles. The booklet chronicles the national battle for equal schooling up to and since the Brown decision. It also highlights the history of school segregation in California and the ongoing struggle for equal schooling in greater Los Angeles.

The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era (Paperback)

By Joseph E. Peniel

$32.95

ISBN-13: 9780415945967
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Published: Routledge, 3/2006

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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt (Hardcover)

By Hasan Kwame Jeffries

$70.00

ISBN-13: 9780814743058
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Published: New York University Press, 7/2009

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Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama (Hardcover)

By Peniel E. Joseph

$26.00

ISBN-13: 9780465013661
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Published: Basic Civitas Books, 1/2010

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de Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (Paperback)

By Elizabeth Martinez, Elizabeth Martc Nez, Elizabeth Martnez

$19.80

ISBN-13: 9780896085831
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Published: South End Press, 7/1999

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DESCRIPTION: The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from her more than 30 years in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. With sections on women’s organizing, struggles for economic justice, and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means All of Us will appeal to readers and activists seeking to organize for the future and build new movements for liberation.

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Paperback)

By Ronald Takaki

$17.99

ISBN-13: 9780316022361
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Published: Back Bay Books, 12/2008

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DESCRIPTION: Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature.

Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education (Paperback)

By Gary Orfield, Susan E. Eaton, Elaine R. Jones

$19.95

ISBN-13: 9781565844018
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Published: New Press, 9/1997

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DESCRIPTION: Dismantling Desegregation explains the consequences of resegregation and offers direction for a more constructive route toward an equitable future. By citing case studies of ten school districts across the country, Orfield and Eaton uncover the demise of what many feel have been the only legally enforceable routes of access and opportunity for millions of school children in America.

The Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka
Chicago, Ill.: Lawrence Hill Books, 2000 - ISBN: 9781556523533 - OUT OF PRINT
DESCRIPTION: As a survey of Baraka’s writings in prose, the book accurately displays the full range of the wordsmith’s skills: from his bold, groundbreaking efforts as an influential member of the post-Beat Lower East Side art scene to his controversial cultural nationalism and his Marxist conversion…. This collection offers an excellent alternative look at one of the legends of African-American letters, frequently quite different than that revealed in his two autobiographies. (Publishers Weekly)

Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry Into the Civil War and Reconstruction (Paperback)

By William Friedheim, American Social History Project, Joshua Brown

$19.95

ISBN-13: 9781565841987
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Published: New Press, 5/1996

DESCRIPTION: Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution is an innovative attempt to describe this pivotal period in American history for high-school students. It examines the ways that “ordinary” people—men and women, white and black, Northern and Southern—experienced and shaped the major events of the era. It highlights the vital role of African Americans, whose achievements in this period are often overlooked, though they stood at the center of the national debate. Filled with primary historical documents, including letters, speeches, and excerpts from novels and newspapers, Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution offers students a firsthand look at the war and its aftermath: the struggle to rebuild the South and construct a new society. Photographs, engravings, art, and political cartoons are included, as well as pre-reading and discussion questions, critical thinking exercises, timelines, and a glossary.

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (Eighth Edition) (Hardcover)

By John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Jr Moss

$75.00

ISBN-13: 9780375406713
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Published: Knopf, 1/2000

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DESCRIPTION: Since its original publication in 1947, From Slavery to Freedom has stood as the definitive history of African Americans. John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss Jr. give us a vividly detailed account of the journey of African Americans from their origins in the civilizations of Africa, through their years of slavery in the New World, to the successful struggle for freedom and its aftermath in the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States.

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (Hardcover)

By Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson

$31.46

ISBN-13: 9780252035579
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Published: University of Illinois Press, 9/2010

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (Paperback)

By Juan Gonzalez

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ISBN-13: 9780140255393
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1/2001

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DESCRIPTION: Spanning 500 years — from the first New World colonies to our nation’s 19th-century westward expansion, from the days of gunboat diplomacy to the turn of the millennium — Harvest of Empire features family portraits of real-life immigrants along with sketches of the political events and social conditions that compelled them to leave their homeland. It also gives a fascinating look at how Latino pioneers have transformed the cultural landscape of the United States.

A Hubert Harrison Reader Hubert Harrison Reader Hubert Harrison Reader Hubert Harrison Reader Hubert Harrison (Paperback)

By Jeffrey Babcock Perry, Hubert H. Harrison

$32.95

ISBN-13: 9780819564702
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Published: Wesleyan, 6/2001

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DESCRIPTION: With publication of this volume it will be possible to trace the evolution of Harrison’s thought for the first time ever. The appearance of Harrison’s writings will most certainly not only fill a gap in our understanding of black radical and nationalist writings around the World War I period and beyond, but will also, I suspect, change the way in which we tend to look at black thought generally in this period. (Ernest Allen Jr., W. E. B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

In Struggle: Sncc and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Paperback)

By Martin Luther King, Jr., Clayborne Carson

$28.00

ISBN-13: 9780674447271
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Published: Harvard University Press, 4/1995

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DESCRIPTION: This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC’s evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white repression. Carson’s history of SNCC goes behind the scene to determine why the group’s ideological evolution was accompanied by bitter power struggles within the organization. Using interviews, transcripts of meetings, unpublished position papers, and recently released FBI documents, he reveals how a radical group is subject to enormous, often divisive pressures as it fights the difficult battle for social change.

I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Paperback)

By Charles M. Payne

$29.95

ISBN-13: 9780520251762
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Published: University of California Press, 3/2007

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DESCRIPTION: Not a comprehensive history of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, this thoughtful study instead analyzes the legacy of community organizing there. Concentrating on the delta city of Greenwood, Payne offers useful profiles of local activists, showing that many came from families with traditions of social involvement or defiance. He also explores the disproportionate number of female volunteers, the older black generation’s complex interactions with whites and the decline of organizing as the 1960s proceeded. And he notes that, despite an ideology of unity, black activists lost the capacity to work together. (Publishers Weekly)

Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement (Paperback)

By Vincent Harding

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9781570758577
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Published: Orbis Books, 2/2010

DESCRIPTION: Harding speaks about teaching, learning, historicizing, and hope. He calls for the creative use of the Black-led Freedom Movement of the post-World War II era as an educational tool. As Lerone Bennett Jr. explains in the foreword, Harding “asks us to assume our history not as spectacle but as a task, not as fate but as a ‘destiny that is still ours to create.’”

The Legacy of a Freedom School (Paperback)

By Sandra E. Adickes

$33.00

ISBN-13: 9781403972132
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Published: Palgrave Macmillan, 11/2005

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DESCRIPTION: In 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee decided to establish Freedom Schools as part of its Freedom Summer campaign in Mississippi. With a curriculum developed by dedicated educators, SNCC workers, and an equally dedicated staff of teachers and student volunteers, the schools provided a learning experience and teaching style that revealed to students who had known only the "stay in your place" experience of segregated education what schools should, and could, be. The achievements of the students involved in Freedom Summer lifted the expectations of students who followed them and hastened the end of segregated schools in Mississippi. In Legacy of a Freedom School, Sandra E. Adickes recalls her experiences working with the SNCC, reminding us all of the powerful Freedom Summer.

The Making of Black Revolutionaries (Paperback)

By James Forman, Julian Bond

$33.00

ISBN-13: 9780295976594
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Published: University of Washington Press, 10/1997

DESCRIPTION: Forman details his role as the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), but in telling his story he is also relating that of many other civil rights advocates and indeed of the 1960s itself.

The March on Washington (Paperback)

By James Haskins

$10.95

ISBN-13: 9780940975934
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Published: Just Us Books, 3/2004

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DESCRIPTION: This historical study of the Civil Rights Movement examines the planning, happenings, and ramifications of the pivotal event, and profiles the leaders involved. ES/MS

The MIS-Education of the Negro (Paperback)

By Carter G. Woodson

$17.95

ISBN-13: 9781585093205
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Published: Book Tree, 12/2007

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DESCRIPTION: Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and training, and which of these African Americans are receiving.

Roll Down Your Window: Stories from a Forgotten America (Paperback)

By Juan Gonzalez

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780860916932
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Published: Verso, 11/1996

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DESCRIPTION: A union activist himself at the New York Daily News, Gonzalez knows the vital dignity of labor, writing about struggling and suffering workers in New York, Honduras, and Haiti. Along with vignettes from New York and the Los Angeles riots, Gonzalez tracks the Honduran victims of a tragic New York fire and the underreported murder of Manuel de Dios Unanue, a Spanish-language journalist whose probes of Colombia’s Cali drug cartel cost him his life. (Publishers Weekly)

Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level (Paperback)

By Peniel E. Joseph

$35.20

ISBN-13: 9780230620773
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Published: Palgrave Macmillan, 1/2010

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Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (Paperback)

By Rodolfo F. Acuna

$72.00

ISBN-13: 9780321427380
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Published: Longman Publishing Group, 11/2006

DESCRIPTION: Occupied America was the first textbook to be published for the growing number of Chicano history courses developing across the country and remains the bestseller.

Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans During the Civil Rights Era (Paperback)

By Ruben Donato

$23.05

ISBN-13: 9780791435205
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Published: State University of New York Press, 10/1997

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DESCRIPTION: Examining the Mexican-American struggle for equal education during the 1960s and 1970s in the Southwest in general and in a California community in particular, Donato looks at how Mexican-American parents confronted the relative tranquility of school governance, how educators responded to increasing numbers of Mexican Americans in schools, how school officials viewed problems faced by Mexican-American children, and why educators chose specific remedies. Finally, he examines how federal, state, and local educational policies corresponded with the desires of the Mexican-American community.

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 (Paperback)

By Taylor Branch

$22.00

ISBN-13: 9780671687427
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 11/1989

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DESCRIPTION: Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Movement’s early years from Montgomery bus boycott through the March on Washington. Also Pillar of Fire, America in the King Years 1963-1965. Covers the Movement in the North, Freedom Summer, Selma, and the Voting Rights Act.

A People's History of the United States (Paperback)

By Howard Zinn

$18.99

ISBN-13: 9780060838652
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 8/2005

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DESCRIPTION: Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People’s History of the United States is the only volume to tell America’s story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America’s women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. Spans American history from Christopher Columbus’s arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency.

Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Hardcover)

By Toni Morrison

$18.00

ISBN-13: 9780618397402
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 5/2004

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DESCRIPTION: Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. These unforgettable images serve as the inspiration for Ms. Morrison’s text—a fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children who lived during the era of “separate but equal” schooling. Remember is a unique pictorial and narrative journey that introduces children to a watershed period in American history and its relevance to us today. ES/MS

Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (Paperback)

By Charles E. Cobb, Robert Moses

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780807031278
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Published: Beacon Press, 2/2002

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DESCRIPTION: The story of Bob Moses’ work in the Civil Rights Movement, the founding of the Algebra Project, and why math literacy is the contemporary equivalent of voting rights in the fight for equal citizenship. (Hardback edition is titled: Radical Equations: Math Literacy, and Civil Rights.)

Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)

By Sonia Sanchez

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780807068533
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Published: Beacon Press, 4/2000

DESCRIPTION: Known as one of the leaders of the Black Arts movement, Sanchez’s work represents the underlying influence of African-American history and emerges as a bold example of an experimental and revolutionary poetic form. By imitating the language of everyday speech, Sanchez solidifies the sound of the black American voice and places it more firmly in our literary canon. This retrospective of 30 years of work leaves one in awe of the stretches of language Sanchez has helped to legitimize throughout her career, language that carries the struggles of poverty, abandonment, racism, and drugs and offers a place of refuge and a path to hope. (Library Journal)

Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality (Paperback)

By Richard Kluger

$27.95

ISBN-13: 9781400030613
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Published: Vintage, 4/2004

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DESCRIPTION: A quarter of a century after it was first published, Simple Justice remains the definitive history of Brown.

She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Paperback)

By Herbert R. Kohl, Marian Wright Edelman, Cynthia Stokes Brown

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ISBN-13: 9781595581273
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Published: New Press, 1/2007

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Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (Paperback)

By Bettye Collier-Thomas, V. P. Franklin, Greg Smith

$25.00

ISBN-13: 9780814716038
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Published: New York University Press, 8/2001

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DESCRIPTION: Sisters in the Struggle presents a detailed analysis of the multifaceted roles played by women in civil rights and Black Power organizations, as well as the major political parties at the local, state, and national levels, while documenting the formation of a distinct black feminist consciousness. It represents the coming of age of African-American women’s history and presents new studies that point the way to future research and analysis.

SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Paperback)

By Howard Zinn

$18.70

ISBN-13: 9780896086791
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Published: South End Press, 9/2002

DESCRIPTION: SNCC: The New Abolitionists influenced a generation of activists struggling for civil rights and seeking to learn from the successes and failures of those who built the fantastically influential Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It is considered an indispensable study of the organization, of the 1960s, and of the process of social change.

Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays (Paperback)

By June Jordan

$15.95

ISBN-13: 9780465036936
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Published: Basic Civitas Books, 4/2003

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DESCRIPTION: Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan’s prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last writings and span the length of her extraordinary career, reveal Jordan as an incisive analyst of the personal and public costs of remaining committed to the ideal and practice of democracy. Willing to venture into the most painful contradictions of American culture and politics, Jordan comes back with lyrical honesty, wit, and wide-ranging intelligence in these accounts of her reckoning with life as a teacher, poet, activist, and citizen.

The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)

By W. E. B. Du Bois, Dover Thrift Editions

$2.50

ISBN-13: 9780486280417
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Published: Dover Publications, 5/1994

DESCRIPTION: W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy only serves to perpetuate black oppression.

Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom's Bittersweet Song (Paperback)

By J. Armstrong, Et Buckner Armstrong, Julie Buckner Armstrong

$29.95

ISBN-13: 9780415932578
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Published: Routledge, 10/2002

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DESCRIPTION: This book offers perspectives on presenting the movement in college courses. Including sample syllabi and detailed descriptions from courses that prove effective, this work will be useful for all instructors, both college and upper level high school, for courses in history, education, race, sociology, literature, and political science.

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (Paperback)

By James W. Loewen

$17.99

ISBN-13: 9780743294485
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Published: Touchstone, 10/2006

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There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights (Paperback)

By Milton Meltzer

$8.99

ISBN-13: 9780375804144
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Published: Random House Books for Young Readers, 1/2002

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DESCRIPTION: Historian, scholar, and award-winning author Milton Meltzer outlines the struggle of African Americans for “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” starting with the landing of the first slave ships on colonial shores. How did over 300 years of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow laws come to an end in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s? What was achieved, and what are the problems still facing us today? ES/MS

Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (Hardcover)

By Matthew J. Countryman

$54.95

ISBN-13: 9780812238945
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, 11/2005

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DESCRIPTION: Matthew Countryman’s award winning history tells the story of the modern civil rights movement and the transition to Black Power in the city of Philadelphia. His narrative of the Black community’s effort to win some degree of control over the education of Black children, culminating in the November 17th student demonstration and police riot at the Board of Education, is important history for anyone concerned with education in Philadelphia and poses questions that remain central to the struggle for quality, equal education in our city today.

Who's Gonna Take the Weight?: Manhood, Race, and Power in America (Paperback)

By Kevin Powell

$12.95

ISBN-13: 9780609810446
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Published: Three Rivers Press, 8/2003

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DESCRIPTION: In three mind-jolting essays…Kevin Powell leads us to the heart of the searing issues facing us today, from manhood, violence, and gender oppression to celebrity culture and hip-hop. Using compelling personal stories as the connecting thread, he examines what this nation has become since the monumental upheavals of the 1960s and where it might be headed if we’re not careful. (Random House)

The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)

By Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox, Homi K. Bhabha

$14.00

ISBN-13: 9780802141323
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Published: Grove Press, 3/2005

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DESCRIPTION: The Wretched of the Earth is considered by many to be one of the canonical books on the worldwide black liberation struggles of the 1960s. Within a Marxist framework, Fanon draws upon his horrific experiences working in Algeria during its war of independence against France. He addresses the role of violence in decolonization and the challenges of political organization and the class collisions and questions of cultural hegemony in the creation and maintenance of a new country’s national consciousness….Still rings true at the cusp of a new century.

Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (Paperback)

By Peniel E. Joseph

$17.99

ISBN-13: 9780805083354
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Published: Holt Paperbacks, 7/2007

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DESCRIPTION: With the rallying cry of “Black Power!” in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton, turned their backs on Martin Luther King’s pacifism and, building on Malcolm X’s legacy, pioneered a radical new approach to the fight for equality. Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour is a history of the Black Power movement, that storied group of men and women who would become American icons of the struggle for racial equality.

Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967 (Paperback)

By Harry G. Lefever

$25.00

ISBN-13: 9780865549388
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Published: Mercer University Press, 2/2005

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We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords (Paperback)

By Miguel Melendez, Jose Torres

$25.25

ISBN-13: 9780813535593
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Published: Rutgers University Press, 2/2005

DESCRIPTION: The Young Lords were one of the most provocative and controversial organizations to arise during the tumult of the late 1960s. Inspired by the wave of protest movements sweeping the country, and the world, as well as organizations like the Black Panthers, the Brown Berets, and the American Indian Movement, the Young Lords became the most respected and powerful voice of Puerto Rican empowerment in the country. Although they were active for only a brief period of time, the legacy of the Young Lords -— their urban guerilla, media-savvy tactics, as well as their message of popular power and liberation, civil rights, and ethnic equity —- is lasting. We Took the Streets is one man’s passionate and inspiring story of the Puerto Rican struggle for equality, civil rights, and independence.