The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
10 best books like The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle (Clayborne Carson): The Feminine Mystique, Heartwood Box, The Souls of Black Folk, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Fall for Anything, Night of the Soul Stealer, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Author | Betty Friedan |
ISBN | 0393346781 |
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of “the problem that has no name”: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined...
Author | Ann Aguirre |
ISBN | 0765397641 |
A dark, romantic YA suspense novel with an SF edge and plenty of drama, layering the secrets we keep and how appearances can deceive, from the New York Times bestselling author.
In this tiny, terrifying town, the lost are never found. When Araceli Flores Harper is sent to live with her great-aunt...
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Author | David McCullough |
ISBN | 1501168681 |
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.
As...
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 | Bruce Watson |
ISBN | 0670021709 |
A majestic history of the summer of '64, which forever changed race relations in America
In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers'...
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Author | Tom Robbins |
ISBN | 1842430246 |
Starring Sissy Hankshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags...Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink, lascivious...
Author | Courtney Summers |
ISBN | 0312656734 |
From the author of Cracked Up to Be and Some Girls Are comes a gripping story about one girl’s search for clues into the mysterious death of her father.
When Eddie Reeves’s father commits suicide her life is consumed by the nagging question of why? Why when he was a legendary photographer...
Night of the Soul Stealer
Author | Joseph Delaney |
ISBN | 0060766247 |
It's going to be a long, hard, cruel winter. And there couldn't be a worse place to spend it than up on Anglezarke.
Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who captures witches and drives away ghosts. As the weather gets colder and the nights draw in, the Spook receives an unexpected...
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...
Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 03
A medieval fantasy where a princess’s mysterious power alters her fate!Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.
Princess Nakaba of Senan is forced to marry Prince Caesar of the enemy country Belquat, tantamount to becoming a hostage. While Caesar is pleasing to the eye, he is also...
Author | Anna Todd |
ISBN | 1501130706 |
Book Five of the After series—Anna Todd’s Wattpad fanfiction that racked up one billion reads online and captivated romance readers across the globe! As told by Hardin and other characters, Before will explore the hero’s life before he met Tessa, reveal what happens after After, give you new...