The Grim Years
A striking account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginningsThe Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 is a graphic account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginnings, when cala…
View ArticleHoward Thurman
Although he is best known as a mentor to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard Thurman (1900-1981) was an exceptional philosopher and public intellectual in his own right. In Howard Thu…
View ArticleWhite Lawyer, Black Power
Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during…
View ArticleCrossings and Encounters
A collection of essays detailing how individuals remapped race, gender, and sexuality through their lived experiences and in the cultural imaginationFor centuries the Atlantic world ha…
View ArticleA True Likeness
Extraordinary photos that reveal the social, economic, and cultural realities of the Black SouthA True Likeness showcases the extraordinary photography of Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-…
View ArticleUnderstanding Randall Kenan
The first book-length study of the life and writings of the critically acclaimed Southern writerRandall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and…
View ArticleThe Papers of Howard Washington Thurman, Volume 5
The twentieth-century writings of a pioneering voice for social justiceThe Papers of Howard Washington Thurman is a five-volume, chronologically arranged documentary edition spanning t…
View ArticleThey Stole Him Out of Jail
The most comprehensive account of the horrific lynching of Willie EarleBefore daybreak on February 17, 1947, twenty-four-year-old Willie Earle, an African American man arrested for the…
View ArticleChildren's Biographies of African American Women
A study of how rhetoric has shaped the life stories of African American role models in children's literatureIn Children's Biographies of African American Women: Rhetoric, Public Memory…
View ArticleBlack Freedom in the Age of Slavery
Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial differenc…
View ArticleThe Grim Years
A striking account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginningsThe Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 is a graphic account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginnings, when cala…
View ArticleHoward Thurman
Although he is best known as a mentor to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard Thurman (1900-1981) was an exceptional philosopher and public intellectual in his own right. In Howard Thu…
View ArticleWhite Lawyer, Black Power
Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during…
View ArticleCrossings and Encounters
A collection of essays detailing how individuals remapped race, gender, and sexuality through their lived experiences and in the cultural imaginationFor centuries the Atlantic world ha…
View ArticleA True Likeness
Extraordinary photos that reveal the social, economic, and cultural realities of the Black SouthA True Likeness showcases the extraordinary photography of Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-…
View ArticleUnderstanding Randall Kenan
The first book-length study of the life and writings of the critically acclaimed Southern writerRandall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and…
View ArticleThe Papers of Howard Washington Thurman, Volume 5
The twentieth-century writings of a pioneering voice for social justiceThe Papers of Howard Washington Thurman is a five-volume, chronologically arranged documentary edition spanning t…
View ArticleThey Stole Him Out of Jail
The most comprehensive account of the horrific lynching of Willie EarleBefore daybreak on February 17, 1947, twenty-four-year-old Willie Earle, an African American man arrested for the…
View ArticleChildren's Biographies of African American Women
A study of how rhetoric has shaped the life stories of African American role models in children's literatureIn Children's Biographies of African American Women: Rhetoric, Public Memory…
View ArticleBlack Freedom in the Age of Slavery
Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial differenc…
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