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States' Laws on Race and Color by Pauli Murray 9780820350639
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £44.92This remarkable, hard-to-find resource is an exhaustive compilation of state laws and local ordinances in effect in 1950 that mandated racial segregation and of pre-Brown-era civil rights legislation... -
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £18.48Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make... -
Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life by Simki Kuznick 9781578690763
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Juvenile Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN... -
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg 9780190656454
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £30.84Pauli Murray (1910-1985) played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. In the 1950s, her legal scholarship helped Thurgood Marshall to shift his course and attack... -
Proud Shoes: the Story of an American Family by Pauli Murray 9780807072097
Booksplease Price: £26.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807072097Author Pauli MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon... -
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage by Pauli Murray
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.10First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray's Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award among other distinctions... -
Pauli Murray: Shouting for the Rights of All People by Deborah Nelson Linck
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31The first introductory and illustrated biography of the civil rights icon.The untold story of Pauli Murray, activist, lawyer, poet, and Episcopal priest, who broke records and barriers throughout her... -
Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life: A YA Biography by Simki Kuznick 9781578690770
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Juvenile Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN... -
Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life by Troy R. Saxby 9781469654928
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (1910-1985) was a trailblazing social activist, writer, lawyer, civil rights organizer, and campaigner for gender rights. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was... -
The Dream Is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith by Sarah Azaransky 9780199744817
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £64.00Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a poet, lawyer, activist, and priest, as well as a significant figure in the civil rights and women's movements. Throughout her careers and activism, Murray espoused... -
Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist by Terry Catasus Jennings
Booksplease Price: £15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499812510Author Terry Catasus JenningsFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Yellow JacketPublisher... -
Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White by Anne Firor Scott 9780807859285
Booksplease Price: £36.92This title explores the cross-race friendship of two feminist activists.In 1942, Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law... -
Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith and Pauli Murray by Darlene O'Dell 9780813920719
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.47Considers the southern graveyard as one of three sites of memory - the other two being the southern body and southern memoir. It shows how Lumpkin, Smith, and Murray contended through their... -
Life's a Gamble: Penetration, The Invisible Girls and Other Stories by Pauline Murray 9781913172701
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.51Life's a Gamble is the autobiography of iconic singer-songwriter Pauline Murray. It recounts her journey from a small mining village in northeast England, through to gaining national recognition as... -
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Vision Barbara Ransby 9781469681344
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose... -
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines 9780807858936
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £27.88This book describes the U.S. civil rights movement and the decolonization of AfricaWhen the West African nation of Ghana gained its independence from British colonial rule in 1957, people of African... -
Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement Victoria W. Wolcott 9780226836805
Booksplease Price: £21.85Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized, and... -
Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement by Victoria W. Wolcott
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.80Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized,... -
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Winner, Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ AnthologyWinner, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle AwardsA Ms. magazine, Refinery29, and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read of... -
Nonviolence before King: The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle by Anthony C. Siracusa 9781469663005
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92In the early 1960s, thousands of Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation at lunch counters, movie theaters, skating rinks, public pools, and churches across the United... -
Protesting with Rosa Parks: From Stagecoaches to Driving While Black John K Bollard 9781588385529
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £22.13Protesting with Rosa Parks details the long and winding history of the intersections between Black activism and travel. John K. Bollard recounts the experiences of more than ninety-five people who... -
On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach by Doriane Lambelet Coleman 9781668023105
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.06An eye-opening account of what the left and right get wrong about sex and gender-and how we can be a thoughtful, sex-smart society.On Sex and Gender focuses on three sequential and consequential... -
The Fifties: An Underground History James R. Gaines 9781439101643
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An "exciting and enlightening revisionist history" (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary,... -
The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea David B. Oppenheimer 9780300279894
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.44The surprising two-hundred-year history of diversity in education, commerce, and science from the scholar the New Yorker dubbed America's "diversity detective" As a war on diversity upends... -
Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement David F. Evans 9781469691466
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12The memory of the long civil rights movement often celebrates white men and women who drew on their religious faith to support Black demands for racial justice. However, the visions and actions of... -
A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History by Francesca Morgan 9781469664781
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for taking stock of kin when organizing a family reunion... -
Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad by Miriam Thaggert
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and... -
Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement David F. Evans 9781469691473
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The memory of the long civil rights movement often celebrates white men and women who drew on their religious faith to support Black demands for racial justice. However, the visions and actions of... -
Freedom'S Daughters by Lynne Olson
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684850139Author OLSONPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
To Advance the Race: Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s by Linda M. Perkins 9780252087837
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda M. Perkins's study ranges across educational and geographical settings to... -
To Advance the Race: Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s by Linda M. Perkins 9780252045738
RRP: £103.00Booksplease Price: £82.90From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda M. Perkins's study ranges across educational and geographical settings to... -
Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920-1945 by Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy 9781469646725
Booksplease Price: £34.44Local policy in the nation's capital has always influenced national politics. During Reconstruction, black Washingtonians were first to exercise their new franchise. But when congressmen abolished... -
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s... -
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper 9780252082481
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s... -
Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me by Shelby Criswell
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.53Follow the daily life of one queer artist from Texas as they introduce us to the lives of ten extraordinary people. The author shares their life as a genderqueer person, living in the American... -
Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular by David A. Hollinger
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural lifeHow did American Christianity become synonymous with conservative white... -
Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular by David A. Hollinger 9780691233925
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.80Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural lifeHow did American Christianity become synonymous with conservative white... -
Race, Nation, and Empire in American History by Robert G. Lee 9780807858288
Booksplease Price: £38.36While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and... -
Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army during World War II by Sandra M Bolzenius
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Before Rosa Parks and the March on Washington, four African American women risked their careers and freedom to defy the United States Army over segregation. Women Army Corps (WAC) privates Mary... -
Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell 9780313275357
Booksplease Price: £66.89This volume, the second of two companion biographical dictionaries, provides extensive entries on 31 women orators active since 1925. It covers women with distinguished political careers, such as...