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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…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4817428/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…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4817422/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…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4817419/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…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4817414/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…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4817412/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…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4817409/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…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4817403/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…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4817271/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…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4817280/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…]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:59 -0700