The first book published about Black Power. "In June of 1966, James Meredith, the first Negro to graduate from the University of Mississippi, began what he called a "march ...

The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and ...

Each book in the Extraordinary People series brings together sixty to eighty stories of struggle, achievement, victory, and sometimes, loss. By examining the lives of ...

"Selections from the America in the King years trilogy with new introductions by the author"--Jacket.

Part history and part meditation, Down to Now is a southern journalist's intensely personal account of the civil rights movement in the South during the 1960s. As a reporter ...

NAACP 2017 Image Award Winner With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights ...

In this exemplary work of scholarly synthesis the author traces the course of events from the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a national black spokesman during the ...