Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950
6 best books like Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950 (Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore): Lost Children Archive, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan
Author | Valeria Luiselli |
ISBN | 0525520619 |
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.
A...
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Author | Barbara Ransby |
ISBN | 0807856169 |
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.
A gifted grassroots organizer,...
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Author | Danielle L. McGuire |
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against black women by white men.
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet...
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Author | W.E.B. Du Bois |
ISBN | 0684856573 |
A truly extraordinary work. Beautifully written, cogently and convincingly argued. Passionate and powerful and vital. Read it.
"Some Americans think and say that the nation freed the black slave and gave him a vote and that, unable to use it intelligently, he lost it. That is not so. To win...
Author | George Chauncey |
ISBN | 0465026214 |
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of...
Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan
Author | Kim Phillips-Fein |
ISBN | 0393059308 |
Starting in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America--and their profit margins--from socialism and the "nanny state." Long before the "culture wars" usually associated with the rise of conservative politics, these driven individuals...