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A fresh examination of teacher activism during the civil rights movement

Southern Black educators were central contributors and activists in the civil rights movement. They contributed…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410103/Struggling-to-Learn
A poignant personal narrative about the history of Black education in South Carolina

The battle for equality in education during the civil rights era came at a cost to Black Americans o…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410116/Understanding-Alice-Walker
Understanding Alice Walker serves both as an introduction to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's large body of work and as a critical analysis of her multifaceted canon. Thadio…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410121/On-Fire
The social, political, and legal struggles that made up the American civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century produced and refined a wide range of rhetorical strategies and tactics.…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410131/A-Guidebook-to-South-Carolina-Historical-Markers
The South Carolina Historical Marker Program, established in 1936, has approved the installation of more than 1,700 interpretive plaques, each highlighting how places both grand and unassuming…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410135/Monumental-Harm
A road map for addressing and resolving the debate surrounding Confederate monuments in the United States

In recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410138/Hosea-Williams
The first comprehensive study of one of America's most gifted civil rights activists and political mavericks

When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressm…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410156/The-Child-in-the-Electric-Chair
"An unsettling yet important historical excavation and true-crime narrative."—Kirkus Reviews [starred review]

The tragic story of the killing of 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr., t…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410246/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, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410236/Injustice-in-Focus
The powerful life story and photography of an esteemed Black photojournalist

Cecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights movement. Born and rais…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800