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Grassroots Revolution

…never drank, was arrested when local authorities tried to pin trumped-up charges of possessing alcohol on her and others at Highlander, which was located in a dry county. Alone in…

Lavish Nights and Civil Rights

…place. Her story is about the real cost of racial justice. Chapter 16: In the civil rights era, the National Urban League seemed like an “establishment” organization connected to politicians,…

America’s Promise

…lyrical effort at walking us around the sphere of life in the Civil War South, he is not preaching an “all sides matter” gospel. In the closing lines of this…

A Steely Commitment to Change

Among the civil rights era’s holiest shrines is the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where demonstrators famously confronted a hostile all-white police force on March 7, 1965. Images of…

Small Victories

…detail. She re-creates the clamor of a war hospital in Alexandria and the dusty shelves of a small-town dry goods store. The author takes special care to capture the social

Memory and Forgetting

all, Mamie Till-Mobley did not have to hold an open casket for her son, whose body sparked international awareness and an era of resistance. Digging deep into the individual-meets-local-meets-global Mississippi…

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