uscpress.com - Civil Rights https://uscpress.com/ Stories of Struggle https://uscpress.com/book-post/3773362/Stories-of-Struggle
In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the lynchings, beatings, bombings, cross burning…]]>
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Struggling to Learn https://uscpress.com/book-post/3773393/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…]]>
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The Slow Undoing https://uscpress.com/book-post/3773390/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…]]>
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The South Carolina State House Grounds https://uscpress.com/book-post/3773385/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…]]>
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The Butler's Child https://uscpress.com/book-post/3773383/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…]]>
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White Lawyer, Black Power https://uscpress.com/book-post/3773380/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…]]>
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Howard Thurman https://uscpress.com/book-post/3773374/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…]]>
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Like Wildfire https://uscpress.com/book-post/3773366/Like-Wildfire
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…]]>
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Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina, Volume 1 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3773204/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…]]>
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My Tour through the Asylum https://uscpress.com/book-post/3773243/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…]]>
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