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Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement by Elaine Allen Lechtreck 9781496817525
RRP: $228.90$212.84In 1963, the Sunday after four black girls were killed by a bomb in a Birmingham church, George William Floyd, a Church of Christ minister, preached a sermon based on the Golden Rule. He pronounced that Jesus Christ was asking Christians to view the... -
Mississippi: The Long, Hot Summer by William McCord 9781496809360
RRP: $73.40$69.09In 1964, sociologist William McCord, long interested in movements for social change in the United States, began a study of Mississippi's Freedom Summer. Stanford University, where McCord taught, had been the site of recruiting efforts for student... -
The Whiteness of Child Labor Reform in the New South by Shelley Sallee 9780820325705
$56.55Focusing on Alabama's textile industry, this study looks at the complex motivations behind the "whites-only" route taken by the Progressive reform movement in the South. In the early 1900s, northern mill owners seeking cheaper labor and fewer... -
Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, Volume 1, 1989: Mountains of Experience: Interdisciplinary, Intercultural, International by Lanier Parks Jr. 9781469637020
RRP: $41.90$35.01This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Parks Lanier, Jr.; Marilou Awiakta; C. Clifford Boyd, Jr.; Ricky L. Cox; Betty Smith; James E. Byer; Edgar H. Thompson; Teresa Wheeling; Paul J. Weingartner, Dwight... -
This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940 by Elna C. Green 9780820352633
$192.70The South has been largely overlooked in the debates prompted by the wave of welfare reforms during the 1990s. This book helps correct that imbalance. Using Richmond, Virginia, as an example, Elna C. Green looks at issues and trends related to two... -
The Boss of New Orleans: Martin Behrman and Machine Politics in the Crescent City by Eric Criss 9780807180297
$84.53Although relatively unknown today, Martin Behrman dominated New Orleans politics in the early twentieth century, serving as mayor from 1904 to 1920 and again in 1925 for a brief period before his death. His political organization—loosely referred to as... -
Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775-1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell 9780807179376
$84.53Nowhere in the United States did the Age of Democratic Revolution exert as profound an influence as in New Orleans. In 1809–10, refugees of the Haitian Revolution doubled the size of the city. In 1811, hundreds of Saint-Dominguan, African, and Louisianan... -
Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land by Christian Pinnen 9781496846457
$66.80Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse... -
Constitutional History of Virginia by Brent Tarter 9780820363356
$78.23This is the only modern comprehensive constitutional history of any state, and as a history of Virgina, it is one of the oldest and most complex. Virginia’s state legislature is the Virginia General Assembly, which was established in July 1619, making it... -
The Struggle of Struggles by Vera Pigee 9781496844637
$232.93From 1955 to 1975, Vera Pigee (1924–2007) put her life and livelihood on the line with grassroots efforts for social change in Mississippi, principally through her years of leadership in Coahoma County’s NAACP. Known as the "Lady of Hats," coined by... -
Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line by Laura J. Feller 9780806190655
RRP: $81.80$80.07Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state's long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, given centuries of love and... -
Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers by Emma Christopher Lirette 9781496841407
$234.89In recent years, shrimpers on the Louisiana coast have faced a historically dire shrimp season, with the price of shrimp barely high enough to justify trawling. Yet, many of them wouldn't consider leaving shrimping behind, despite having transferrable... -
Mississippi Zion: The Struggle for Liberation in Attala County, 1865-1915 by Evan Howard Ashford 9781496839725
RRP: $205.80$205.02From lesser-known state figures to the ancestors of Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, and James Meredith, Mississippi Zion: The Struggle for Liberation in Attala County, 1865-1915 brings the voices and experiences of everyday people to the forefront and... -
A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers: The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199 by John Hennen 9781952271243
RRP: $62.90$53.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952271243Author John HennenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint West Virginia University PressPublisher West Virginia University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Know Nothings in Louisiana by Marius M. Carriere 9781496828231
RRP: $52.40$49.25In the 1850s, a startling new political party appeared on the American scene. Both its members and its critics called the new party by various names, but to most it was known as the Know Nothing Party. It reignited political fires over nativism and... -
The South Strikes Back by Hodding Carter III 9781496840233
RRP: $228.90$205.02In The South Strikes Back, Hodding Carter III describes the birth of the white Citizens' Council in the Mississippi Delta and its spread throughout the South. Carter begins with a brief historical overview and traces the formation of the Council, its... -
The French Heritage of North Carolina by Dudley M Marchi 9781476685434
RRP: $60.88$49.10There is a subtle but significant French heritage in North Carolina. The first European explorers to the North Carolina region were, in fact, French (1524). French Huguenots migrated to the state as early as 1690, and many North Carolinians have family... -
The Racial Divide in American Medicine: Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care by Richard D. deShazo 9781496828286
RRP: $52.40$48.99Contributions by Richard D. deShazo, John Dittmer, Keydron K. Guinn, Lucius M. Lampton, Wilson F. Minor, Rosemary Moak, Sara B. Parker, Wayne J. Riley, Leigh Baldwin Skipworth, Robert Smith, and William F. WinterThe Racial Divide in American Medicine... -
Cooperatives in New Orleans: Collective Action and Urban Development by Anne Gessler 9781496827616
RRP: $228.90$212.00Cooperatives have been central to the development of New Orleans. Anne Gessler asserts that local cooperatives have reshaped its built environment by changing where people interact and with whom, helping them collapse social hierarchies and envision new... -
The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi by Ted Ownby 9781496823670
RRP: $73.40$69.09Contributions by Chris Myers Asch, Emilye Crosby, David Cunningham, Jelani Favors, Francoise N. Hamlin, Wesley Hogan, Robert Luckett, Carter Dalton Lyon, Byron D'Andra Orey, Ted Ownby, Joseph T. Reiff, Akinyele Umoja, and Michael Vinson WilliamsBased on... -
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900 by Ashley Baggett 9781496830807
RRP: $73.40$69.09Ashley Baggett uncovers the voices of abused women who utilized the legal system in New Orleans to address their grievances from the antebellum era to the end of the nineteenth century. Poring over 26,000 records, Baggett analyzes 421 criminal cases... -
Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land by Christian Pinnen 9781496832702
RRP: $126.00$117.52Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse... -
The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi by Ted Ownby 9781617039331
RRP: $228.90$212.84Based on new research and combining multiple scholarly approaches, these twelve essays tell new stories about the civil rights movement in the state most resistant to change. Wesley Hogan, Francoise N. Hamlin, and Michael Vinson Williams raise questions... -
Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992 by Mark Newman 9781496818867
RRP: $228.90$212.84Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth... -
Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans by Clyde Woods 9780820350912
$203.03Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment... -
The African American Heritage of Florida by David Colburn 9781947372689
$61.57The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between... -
Modern Moonshine: The Revival of White Whiskey in the Twenty-First Century by Cameron D. Lippard 9781946684813
RRP: $207.90$198.05The craft of making moonshine-an unaged white whiskey, often made and consumed outside legal parameters-nearly went extinct in the late twentieth century as law enforcement cracked down on illicit producers, and cheaper, lawful alcohol became readily... -
A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture by The Florida Association of the American Institute of Architecture 9781947372191
$47.00The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between... -
Hotel Ponce de Leon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Flagler's Gilded Age Palace by Leslee F. Keys 9780813061498
$87.00Henry Flagler's opulent Hotel Ponce de Leon drew worldwide praise from the day its elaborately carved doors opened in 1888. Built in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style, the architectural and engineering marvel featured the talents of a team of... -
Avery County, Nc by Michael C. Hardy 9780738541914
RRP: $46.18$32.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738541914Author Michael C. HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g -
The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi: A History by Michael Newton 9781476678245
RRP: $46.18$38.96Since 1866 the Ku Klux Klan has been a significant force in Mississippi, enduring repeated cycles of expansion and decline. Klansmen have rallied, marched, elected civic leaders, infiltrated law enforcement, and committed crimes ranging from petty... -
Black Power in Dixie: A Political History of African Americans in Atlanta by Alton Hornsby 9780813062136
$61.57From Reconstruction to recent times, the middle-class black leadership in Atlanta, while often subordinating class and gender differences to forge a continuous campaign for equality, successfully maintained its mantle of racial leadership for more than a... -
The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City by Dianne Guenin-Lelle 9781496804860
RRP: $228.90$212.00What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic... -
Wheeling's Polonia: Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town by William Hal Gorby 9781949199390
RRP: $207.90$198.89William Hal Gorby's study of Wheeling's Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working, and creating a distinctly Polish-American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the upper Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in... -
The Humble Petition of Denys Rolle, Esq. by Denys Rolle 9781947372542
$29.00The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between... -
Eighteenth-Century Florida and the Revolutionary South by Samuel Proctor 9781947372764
$33.01The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between... -
Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair by Miki Pfeffer 9781628461343
RRP: $228.90$212.00Women from all over the country came to New Orleans in 1884 for the Woman's Department of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, that portion of the World's Fair exhibition devoted to the celebration of women's affairs and industry. Their conversations and... -
Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair by Miki Pfeffer 9781496804488
RRP: $73.40$69.09Women from all over the country came to New Orleans in 1884 for the Woman's Department of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, that portion of the World's Fair exhibition devoted to the celebration of women's affairs and industry. Their conversations and... -
Western North Carolina Since the Civil War by Ina W. Van Noppen 9781469638317
RRP: $50.30$50.27No region has undergone more dramatic changes in the last century than Western North Carolina. Published in 1973, Western North Carolina Since the Civil War takes a look at the mountain people and their uniquely structured economic, political, social,... -
Too Few Tomorrows: Urban Appalachians in the 1980's by Phillip Obermiller 9781469637051
RRP: $41.90$35.01Between the 1940s and 1970s the mountains of Appalachia were viewed as a center for economic and employment opportunities. Over three million people chased the American dream to the mountains in search of a better life for themselves and their families...