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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…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602953/They-Stole-Him-Out-of-Jail
The most comprehensive account of the horrific lynching of Willie Earle

Before daybreak on February 17, 1947, twenty-four-year-old Willie Earle, an African American man arrested for the…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602957/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…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602958/Understanding-James-Baldwin
An analysis of the ground-breaking author's vision and thematic concerns

The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, JamesBaldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602959/Understanding-Randall-Kenan
The first book-length study of the life and writings of the critically acclaimed Southern writer

Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602979/A-True-Likeness
Extraordinary photos that reveal the social, economic, and cultural realities of the Black South

A True Likeness showcases the extraordinary photography of Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602994/Crossings-and-Encounters
A collection of essays detailing how individuals remapped race, gender, and sexuality through their lived experiences and in the cultural imagination

For centuries the Atlantic world ha…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3603000/Black-Freedom-in-the-Age-of-Slavery
Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial differenc…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3603028/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, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3603026/Descended
A mysterious name initiates a journey to discover one family's past, and reveals more than was expected

It began with a name. Sancho. Gleaned from the memory of his oldest living relat…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700