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English
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"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil-when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government in an attempt to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan, which historian Fergus Bordewich defines as 'the first organized terrorist movement in American history,' rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members, no small number...
11) The Negro today
Author
Series
Publisher
Marzani & Munsell, Inc
Pub. Date
[1962]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (62 pages).
Language
English
Series
Anchor Books volume A318
Publisher
Doubleday & Company
Pub. Date
1962.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (195 pages).
Language
English
19) Let's be human
Author
Publisher
Oceana Publications
Pub. Date
[1960]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
"A compilation of columns [entitled Let's be human] which go to more than 100 papers."
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about Ida B. Wells and her life as a suffragist, with a focus on the Women's March of 1913"--
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