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Civil Rights in South Carolina
9781609496869
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The civil rights movement in South Carolina has an epic and tumultuous history, beginning with the very first statewide meeting of the NAACP in 1939.
With stories of sit-ins, movements and the integration of state universities, this is the first comprehensive history of South Carolina's civil rights struggles. And behind every achievement are the major legal rulings that protected them, interspersed with the familiar names of Thurgood Marshall, Matthew Perry, Ernest A. Finney and Judge Waties Waring. Join former South Carolina NAACP president and activist James L. Felder as he recounts the epic struggle African Americans have faced, from fighting for the right to vote to the desegregation of public spaces and all the efforts in between.
Barry Farm-Hillsdale in Anacostia
9781467147699
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The NAACP in Washington, DC
9781467140522
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Founded in March 1912, DC branch of the NAACP quickly became the leading organization advocating for the city's Black community.
President Woodrow Wilson's institution of Jim Crow segregation in the federal government in the spring of 1913 galvanized the African American community of DC and the NAACP launched a formidable crusade against Wilson's racist policies. As the preeminent civil rights organization of the nation's capital, it also developed a dual role as a watchdog body to prevent the passage of legislation in Congress that negatively affected African Americans.
Archivist and historian Derek Gray chronicles and analyzes the work of the DC NAACP through the civil rights era to the achievement of Home Rule in the District.
Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston
9781467153218
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Nannie Berger Hairston was a crusader for justice in twentieth-century Virginia.
Nannie Berger Hairston was born in West Virginia in 1921, half a century after the end of the Civil War. She attended segregated schools, graduated, married and started a family. When Nannie’s husband, John, lost his job in the coal mine, the Hairstons moved to Southwest Virginia. It was the height of Jim Crow, and yet, against great odds, she and John became leaders in the community, advocating for civil rights and social justice. Nannie Hairston’s advice was sought by the powerless as well as the powerful. At the time of her death in 2017, she had taken her place as an icon for truth, justice and love.
Local author Sheree Scarborough uses Nannie Hairston’s own words to tell her story.
Voices of Milwaukee Bronzeville
9781467148887
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%A history of the Cream City's lost Black neighborhood told by the people who lived there
Some people don't have to imagine what Milwaukee's Bronzeville was like. They have only to remember. They recall Walnut Street alive with businesses serving a hard-working Black population making something out of the meager resources available to them. They describe religious establishments such as St. Marks Methodist Episcopal, St. Benedict the Moor, Calvary Baptist, and St. Matthews CME attending to the spiritual life and remember the Flame, the Metropole, and Satin Doll night clubs taking care of entertainment and secular needs. Above all, they recollect a people looking out for the well-being of all within its realm.
Gathering interviews with residents of the now vanished neighborhood, Dr. Sandra E. Jones reimagines Bronzeville not just as a place, but as a spirit engendered by a people determined to make a way out of no way.
