Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
10 best books like Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (John Dittmer): An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century, Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan
| Author | William Doyle |
| ISBN | 0385499701 |
In 1961, a black veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi — and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America. Meredith’s challenge ultimately triggered what Time magazine called “the gravest conflict between...
Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left
| Author | Sara M. Evans |
| ISBN | 0394742281 |
The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders...
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...
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,...
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
| Author | Peniel E. Joseph |
| ISBN | 0805075399 |
A gripping narrative that brings to life a legendary moment in American history: the birth, life, and death of the Black Power movement
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...
| Author | Thomas J. Sugrue |
| ISBN | 0679643036 |
Thomas Sugrues 2008 synthesis Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North attempts to knit together the emerging urban histories. By focusing on the “forgotten struggle” of African Americans in the North Sugrue tells us that we can dispel the amnesia of a narrative...
| Author | Clayborne Carson |
| ISBN | 0674447271 |
With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and...
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
| Author | Faith S. Holsaert |
| ISBN | 0252035577 |
In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement.
The...
American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
| Author | Gary Gerstle |
| ISBN | 0691102775 |
This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of the...
Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan
| Author | David Cunningham |
| ISBN | 0199752028 |
In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most surprisingly, the state with the largest Klan membership-more...
| Author | Daniel T. Rodgers |
| ISBN | 0674002016 |
On a narrative canvas that sweeps across Europe and the United States, Daniel T. Rodgers retells the story of the classic era of efforts to repair the damage of unbridled capitalism. He reveals the forgotten international roots of such innovations as city planning, rural cooperatives, modernist...
| Author | Gail Bederman |
| ISBN | 0226041395 |
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro." Jeffries, though, was trounced....
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable...
| Author | Howard Zinn |
| ISBN | 0896086798 |
Howard Zinn tells the story of one of the most important political groups in American history. 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...
| Author | Charles Postel |
| ISBN | 0195176502 |
In the late nineteenth century, monumental technological innovations like the telegraph and steam power made America and the world a much smaller place. New technologies also made possible large-scale organization and centralization. Corporations grew exponentially and the rich amassed great...
| 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'...
The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today--especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of...
Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
| Author | Kristin L. Hoganson |
| ISBN | 0300085540 |
This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership influenced jingoist political leaders`...
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
| Author | Charles M. Payne |
| ISBN | 0520251768 |
"In the minds of untold numbers of Americans, for example, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was the civil rights movement. Thought it up, led it, produced its victories, became its sole martyr. Schoolchildren- including Black schoolchildren- are taught this."
-Fred Powledge
Charles...
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
| Author | Maryanne Vollers |
| ISBN | 0316914711 |
The civil rights movement was just beginning to catch fire in Mississippi on the night in 1963 when white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith crouched in the honeysuckle across the street from NAACP leader Medgar Evers's house and shot him in the back. Three trials and thirty years later, a jury convicted...
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...
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
| Author | Matthew Frye Jacobson |
| ISBN | 0674951913 |
America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective...
The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
| Author | Alan Brinkley |
| ISBN | 0679753141 |
At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its crisis. Those origins, says Alan Brinkley, are paradoxically situated during the second term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose New Deal had made liberalism a fixture of American politics and society....
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
| Author | Raymond Arsenault |
| ISBN | 0195327144 |
They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a full-length...
Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
| Author | Su'ad Abdul Khabeer |
| ISBN | 1479894508 |
Interviews with young, black Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop
This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, "Muslim Cool." Muslim Cool is a way...
