From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
7 best books like From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Michael J. Klarman): The Crying of Lot 49, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd...
Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
| Author | Lisa McGirr |
| ISBN | 0691096112 |
In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered...
| Author | Peggy Pascoe |
| ISBN | 0195094638 |
A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other...
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
| Author | Robin D.G. Kelley |
| ISBN | 0807842885 |
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movement in Alabama -- the center of Party activity in the Depression South. Hammer and Hoe documents the efforts of the Alabama Communist Party and its allies to secure racial, economic, and political reforms....
Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
| Author | Paul Frymer |
| ISBN | 0691134650 |
In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the process, the book tells a broader story about how the...
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
| Author | Risa L. Goluboff |
| ISBN | 0674024656 |
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Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a provocative new account of the history of American civil rights law. The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education has long dominated...
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
| Author | Nancy MacLean |
| ISBN | 0674019091 |
In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to most Americans. Today, diversity in the workforce is a point of pride. How did such a transformation come about? In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLean shows how African-American...
