Browse by Subject: History

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From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South

Rich with the voices of Black and white southern workers, this broad collection of essays shows how African Americans have continued fighting for economic parity in the decades since the civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

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Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution

This book explores the history and enduring legacy of Chambers v. Florida, a landmark ruling that banned confessions obtained through mental or physical coercion in criminal trials and contributed to what is now known as the “criminal procedure revolution.”

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Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation

This collection examines the important work of Black men and women to shape, expand, and preserve a multiracial American democracy from the mid-twentieth century to the present.

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Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice: Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century

This book tells the stories of nine southern Methodist women, who, inspired by their faith, advocated for progressive reform by fighting for racial equality, challenging white male supremacy, and addressing class oppression.

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Alive in Their Garden: The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom

In this memoir, Dedé Mirabal offers an intimate account of the lives and legacy of her sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, Dominican revolutionaries who were assassinated in 1960 by order of dictator Rafael Trujillo. This is the first English translation of Dedé’s story, introducing new readers to a tragedy and international outcry that heralded the fall of the Trujillo dictatorship.

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Futures of Black Power: Reimagining the Black Past

This book uncovers and centers unexpected sites of Black Power activism within the Black freedom struggle. In essays interspersed with oral history interviews, leading scholars look at how we study the past and suggest new ways historians can recognize Black Power and Black radicalism in the future.

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Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.: Volume 1

In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating the enormous impact of the fraternity. Volume 1 tells the story of the organization’s founding and spotlights scientists, civil rights lawyers, athletes, and musicians.

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Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.: Volume 2

In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating the enormous impact of the fraternity. Volume 2 discusses military figures, artists, modern civil rights activists, and scholars, and celebrates the rise of recent scholarship on Black Greek-letter organizations.

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Black Prison Intellectuals: Writings from the Long Nineteenth Century

Recovering critical, understudied writings from early archives, this book calls into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century, tracing the arc of Black prison writing from 1795 to 1901.

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More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Continuing the Struggle

In this book, twenty-three lawyers discuss their experiences in the struggle to advance and maintain civil rights in the United States South, from the 1960s to the 1980s and from Texas to Virginia to Florida.