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Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	A Lynching in the Heartland Race and Memory in America James H. Madison Palgrave Macmillan A harrowing yet poignant examination of a famous lynching that considers America's ongoing struggles with race, equality, and justice.

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	The African American Urban Experience Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present Edited by Joe W. Trotter, Earl Lewis, and Tera W. Hunter Palgrave Macmillan A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary anthology that explores the relationship between urban history and African-American studies.

Trade Paperback : $37.00 Buy	Freedom North Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980 Edited by Jeanne F. Theoharis and Komozi Woodard Palgrave Macmillan The civil rights movement occupies a prominent place in popular thinking and scholarly work on post-1945 U.S. history. Yet the dominant narrative of the...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	African American Childhoods Historical Perspectives from Slavery to Civil Rights Wilma King Palgrave Macmillan In African American Childhoods, historian Wilma King presents a selection of her essays, both unpublished and published, which together provide a much-needed...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	The Many Faces of Judge Lynch Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America Christopher Waldrep Palgrave Macmillan A ground breaking study of extralegal violence that considers the changing meaning and use of the term “lynching” throughout American history.

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Palgrave Advances in Cold War History Palgrave Advances Edited by Saki Dockrill and Geraint Hughes Palgrave Macmillan This is a multidisciplinary account of the subject. The book examines familiar concepts such as ideology, culture, and strategy that shaped the texture of the...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Target Zero A Life in Writing Eldridge Cleaver; Edited by Kathleen Cleaver; Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Afterword by Cecil Brown Palgrave Macmillan Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Scholarship and the Transformation of Public Policy Contemporary Black History Edited by Zachery Williams Palgrave Macmillan This book introduces Africana Cultures and Policy Studies as an interdisciplinary field, rooted in the historical experience of people of African descent....

Trade Paperback : $37.00 Buy	Servants of the People The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership Lea E. Williams Palgrave Macmillan The repressive climate of racial hatred in America that spawned the 1960s civil rights movement also galvanized a generation of bold, persuasive, driven...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton Contemporary Black History Duchess Harris Palgrave Macmillan Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black women's involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Neighborhood Rebels Black Power at the Local Level Contemporary Black History Edited by Peniel E. Joseph Palgrave Macmillan This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power’s impact at the grassroots level in...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Booker T. Washington and the Struggle against White Supremacy The Southern Educational Tours, 1908-1912 David H. Jackson, Jr. Palgrave Macmillan This book narrates and analyzes the southern tours by Booker T. Washington and his associates in 1908-1912. The author provides analysis of the importance of...

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	Living with Jim Crow African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South Palgrave Studies in Oral History Anne Valk and Leslie Brown Palgrave Macmillan This groundbreaking book collects black women’s personal recollections of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American...

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	The Civil Rights Movement Struggle and Resistance, Third Edition Studies in Contemporary History William T. Martin Riches Palgrave Macmillan Focusing on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945 to today, Riches shows how the black community used the institutions created by de jure...

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Obama Contemporary Black History Duchess Harris Palgrave Macmillan Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black women’s involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement "Another Side of the Story" Contemporary Black History Edited by Robbie Lieberman and Clarence Lang Palgrave Macmillan The original essays in this book highlight the destructive impact of McCarthyism on the African American Freedom Movement. Recovering little-known stories of...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	The Black Campus Movement Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 Contemporary Black History Ibram H. Rogers Palgrave Macmillan Between 1965 and 1972, African American students at upwards of a thousand historically black and white American colleges and universities organized, demanded,...

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Behind the Dream

The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation

Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly Palgrave Macmillan

“I have a dream.” When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King,...

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Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Mau Mau in Harlem? The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya Contemporary Black History Gerald Horne Palgrave Macmillan From the inception of a the British colony in Kenya in the late 19th nineteenth century, the United States has been intimately involved in the country's...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	From Black Power to Prison Power The Making of Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union Contemporary Black History Donald F. Tibbs Palgrave Macmillan This book uses the landmark case Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union to examine the strategies of prison inmates using race and radicalism to...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	The Afterlife of John Brown Edited by Andrew Taylor and Eldrid Herrington Palgrave Macmillan An examination of the influence--however contested--of John Brown of the Harper's Ferry Rebellion on the national narrative of the United States

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America Issues in Historiography Kevern Verney Manchester University Press Here is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	The New Black History Revisiting the Second Reconstruction Critical Black Studies Edited by Manning Marable and Elizabeth Kai Hinton Palgrave Macmillan An anthology on key issues that define African American politics, life, and culture

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July James A. Colaiaco Palgrave Macmillan An important look at Frederick Douglass' pivotal July 4th, 1852, speech in which he identified the grand American Dilemma--the critical contradiction between...

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