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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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891533/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891528/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891527/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891524/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891518/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891510/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891506/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891340/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891347/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800