Here is a list of readings that educators can use to broach conversations in the classroom about the horrendous events that unfolded in Charleston, South Carolina on the evening of June 17, 2015. These readings provide valuable information about the history of racial violence in this country and contextualize the history of race relations in South
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Between Threat and Reality: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Emergence of Armed Self-Defense in Clarksdale and Natchez, Mississippi, 1960-1965
Annelieke Dirks, Between Threat and Reality: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Emergence of Armed Self-Defense in Clarksdale and Natchez, Mississippi, 1960-1965, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 71-98
John Brown, abolitionist : the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War, and seeded civil rights : Reynolds, David S., 1948-
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The #BlackCommunistReadingList - AAIHS
Here is a list of recommended books on African Americans and Communism. As a graduate student at the University of Illinois, I read many of these books to gain an intellectual understanding of why black Americans and other people African descent saw Communism as a political ideology through which to achieve black liberation. Harry Haywood’s
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The Chesapeake: Making Race
When the Chesapeake region began taking shape, race and class were ill-defined. But Africans quickly became enslaved for life.
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The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State by Emmaia Gelman - Hardcover
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