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The Blood of Emmett Till
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Righteous Troublemakers shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things—like Pauli Murray, whose early work inspired Thurgood Marshall, Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus months before Rosa Parks did the same, and Gwen Carr, whose private pain in losing her son Eric Garner stoked her public activism against police brutality. Sharpton also gives his personal take on more widely known individuals, revealing overlooked details, historical connections, and a perspective informed by years of working in the social justice movement.
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Thank God for this book knowledge is power
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Arc of Justice
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The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925. When his neighbors attempted to drive him out, Sweet defended himself, resulting in the death of a white man and a murder trial for Sweet. There followed one of the most important (and shockingly unknown) cases in Civil Rights history. Also caught up in the intense courtroom drama were legal giant Clarence Darrow and the newly formed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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Gripping narrative
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Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' 30-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides.
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very interesting
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Eyes on the Prize
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From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose Johns and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination. These moving accounts of the first decade of the civil rights movement are a tribute to the people, black and white, who took part in the fight for justice and the struggle they endured.
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This is a must in every household.
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On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama. Shouting "It's my constitutional right!" as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she'd had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child.
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The funny yet touching story of women leders!
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Margaret A. Burnham challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in harrowing cases between 1920 and 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system of the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the line from slavery to the legal structures of this period—and through to today.
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Heartbreaking
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The Race Beat
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Drawing on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews, veteran journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff go behind the headlines and datelines to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen - first black reporters, then liberal Southern editors, then reporters and photographers from the national press and the broadcast media - revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings and propelled its citizens to act.
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A fascinating inside look at history
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When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into "the Metropolis of the World". But just as the dream seemed within reach, pandemonium broke loose and the city’s highest ambitions were suddenly under attack by the same unbridled energies that had given birth to them in the first place.
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Great History of a Great City
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In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom.
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The Long Hot Summer
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In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963 - the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial - two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the Career Girls Murders case, the crime sent ripples of fear throughout the city, as police scrambled fruitlessly for months to find the killer.
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I Highly Recommend This Book!
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- Misty
- 03-16-17
Gripping Tale and Story.
Rhett S price did a terrific job narrating the story; he really made it come to life.
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- Lola
- 09-21-18
A courageous true story
An amazing, truth-telling of the civil-rights history in America... I learned a lot of sad truths.
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- Mary Griffiths
- 03-17-19
Worth your time and attention
Powerful and important. This book shook me. A relevant history lesson for those choose to ignore it.
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- robin hamilton
- 07-25-18
History
This book gives alot of history of how civil rights started and how things are today.
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- lee fountain
- 02-06-23
Insightful
A great dialog and awareness of the truth about Emmitt Till. Thank you very much.
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- D.
- 05-22-17
Still Relevant
A very important & sad bit of history. Narrator mispronounced Mamie. It is pronounced May-me.
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- juanita browder
- 09-13-21
A revelation of Emmett Till's death.
Stricking details revealed of this murder along with it's effect on the USA and other countries.
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- Buzzman
- 07-25-24
Say His Name
It is as important that Emmett Till be taught in the public schools as ardently as we teach about the deaths of school children from mass gunshots. Racism and the myth of white supremacy is being taught as a remembrance of “the land of cotton where old times are not forgotten.”
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- Shavoz
- 03-10-17
Great details and collectors item.
The details provided are good. This is a good book for someone who is a history scholar or enthusiast. It's great for someone who wants to do a film based on Emmitt Till. I think Mamie Bradly is a superwoman that isn't touted enough after reading this.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-15-20
amazing
this was an amazing book that talked about the trials of African Americans in the 1950s
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