In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
10 best books like In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Clayborne Carson): The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
Author | Ruth Rosen |
ISBN | 0140097198 |
The Newly Revised and Updated Edition
In this enthralling narrative-the first of its kind-historian and journalist Ruth Rosen chronicles the history of the American women's movement from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present. Interweaving the personal with the political, she vividly...
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Author | Timothy B. Tyson |
ISBN | 0807849235 |
This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, Williams and his followers...
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...
Author | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese |
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues...
Author | Tiya Miles |
ISBN | 0520250028 |
This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master...
Author | Cathy Wilkerson |
ISBN | 1583227717 |
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the
legacy...
Author | Bethany Moreton |
ISBN | 0674033221 |
In the decades after World War II, evangelical Christianity nourished America’s devotion to free markets, free trade, and free enterprise. The history of Wal-Mart uncovers a complex network that united Sun Belt entrepreneurs, evangelical employees, Christian business students, overseas...
Author | Mary L. Dudziak |
ISBN | 0691095132 |
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States'...
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
Author | Alondra Nelson |
ISBN | 0816676488 |
Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but...
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
Author | Akinyele Omowale Umoja |
ISBN | 0814725244 |
"Ranging from Reconstruction to the Black Power period, this thoroughly and creatively researched book effectively challenges long-held beliefs about the Black Freedom Struggle. It should make it abundantly clear that the violence/nonviolence dichotomy is too simple to capture the thinking...
Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971, at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced from one...
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
Author | John W. Dower |
ISBN | 0394751728 |
Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War -- race...