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Editor Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama, 1940-1975
Language: en
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Authors: Kimberley Mangun
Categories: African American newspaper editors
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing

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"This cultural biography tells the story of Birmingham World editor Emory O. Jackson. During his 35-year career in Alabama, he waged numerous sustained civil-ri
Our Kind of Historian
Language: en
Pages: 470
Authors: E. James West
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-29 - Publisher: UMass + ORM

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Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. R
Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Thomas Aiello
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-02-15 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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This book’s predecessor, The Grapevine of the Black South, emphasized the owners of the Atlanta Daily World and its operation of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Margaret A. Burnham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-27 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of NPR's Books We Love in 2022 • Named a Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus, C
Hammer and Hoe
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: Robin D. G. Kelley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-03 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists to