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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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017659/The-Papers-of-Howard-Washington-Thurman-Volume-4
The mid-twentieth-century writings of a pioneering voice for social justice

The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman is a multivolume, chronologically arranged documentary edition spanni…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017668/Savannah-in-the-New-South
An examination of the Georgian city's complicated and sometimes turbulent development

Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr.…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017685/Smoke-Signals-from-Samarcand
A case study and dramatic retelling of young girls on trial for arson at a reform school

In 1931 sixteen poor, white girls—all teenaged inmates at Samarcand Manor, officially named the…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017725/The-Papers-of-Howard-Washington-Thurman-Volume-5
The twentieth-century writings of a pioneering voice for social justice

The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman is a five-volume, chronologically arranged documentary edition spanning t…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017781/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017790/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017787/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017650/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017773/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700