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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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534718/Childrens-Biographies-of-African-American-Women
A study of how rhetoric has shaped the life stories of African American role models in children's literature

In Children's Biographies of African American Women: Rhetoric, Public Memory…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534731/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534735/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534737/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534757/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534772/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534796/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534790/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, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534785/The-Grim-Years
A striking account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginnings

The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 is a graphic account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginnings, when cala…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700