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The sit-ins of the American civil rights movement were extraordinary acts of dissent in an age marked by protest. By sitting in at "whites only" lunch counters, libraries, beaches, swimming po…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1616286/Struggling-to-Learn
The battle for equality in education during the civil rights era came at a cost to Black Americans on the frontlines. In 1964 when fourteen-year-old June Manning Thomas walked into Orangeburg…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1616283/The-Slow-Undoing
A study of how South Carolina's federal district courts were central to achieving and solidifying gains during the civil rights movement

As the first comprehensive study of one state's…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1616279/The-South-Carolina-State-House-Grounds
The first comprehensive narrative of the South Carolina state capitol and the history enshrined in its monuments from 1787 to the present

The South Carolina State House grounds are a wo…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1616278/The-Butlers-Child
The insightful life story of a civil rights attorney whose childhood, anchored by his relationship with the family's African American butler, led to a life pursuing social justice

Lewis…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1616275/White-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…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1616269/Howard-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…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1616091/New-Politics-in-the-Old-South
The first scholarly account of the South Carolina Democrat's career and the transformation of Southern U.S. politics and society during the civil rights era

New Politics in the Old Sout…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1616098/Champions-of-Civil-and-Human-Rights-in-South-Carolina-Volume-1
An anthology of oral history interviews with significant South Carolina civil rights activists

Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina is a five-volume anthology spanning…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1616139/My-Tour-through-the-Asylum
The life story of a South Carolina champion of education and his transformation from segregationist to integrationist

Immortalized in the writings of his most famous student, best-selli…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700