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Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvi, 656 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"With lively prose and sensitivity to context, this book offers a sweeping, authoritative history of the Obama presidency, focusing particularly on its impact and meaning vis-à-vis African Americans. This interpretative account captures the America that made Obama's White House years possible, while at the same time rendering the America that resolutely resisted the idea of a Black chief executive, thus making conceivable the ascent of his most unlikely...
Author
Publisher
Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) : portraits
Language
English
Description
This book examines the American presidency through the prism of race and race relations in America, revealing a long and complicated relationship with the African American community. It evaluates each presidents' policies, cabinet appointments, and handling of race matters. Discusses each American president's life and career as well as his policies that affected the African American community. Includes presidents' personal writings, memoirs, autobiographies,...
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xx, 269 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A man who broke race barriers and set precedents throughout his life in politics; co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center and long-time chair of the NAACP; Julian Bond was a leader and a visionary who built bridges between the black civil rights movement and other freedom movements?especially for LGBTQ and women's rights. As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, there is no better time to return to Bond's works and words, many...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xiii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray shines a light on a little known group of men: the nation's first black members of Congress. These men played a critical role in pushing for much-needed reforms in the wake of a traumatic civil war, including public education for all children, equal rights, and protection from Klan violence. But they have been either neglected or maligned by most historians--their "glorious failure" chalked up to corruption and...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxii, 251 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how the Great Emancipator used the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in our country's most divisive era"--
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
326 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ann Coulter fearlessly explains the real history of race relations in this country, including how white liberals twist that history to spring the guilty, accuse the innocent, and engender racial hatreds, all in order to win politically.
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