Browse by Subject: African American History

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The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City

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German-Speaking Officers in the U.S. Colored Troops, 1863-1867

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Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later

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The Brothers' Vietnam War: Black Power, Manhood, and the Military Experience

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Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle

These essays on the relationship among the media, popular culture, and the postwar African American freedom struggle offer new perspectives on the nature of the Civil Rights Movement and its legacies.

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The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps

Through the use of oral histories, this book examines the participation of nearly 200,000 young African Americans in all-black camps of the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of Roosevelt’s most successful New Deal agencies.

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Urban Vigilantes in the New South: Tampa, 1882-1936