Racial Terrorism
A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching
How the Equal Justice Initiative, the Legacy Museum, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice confront racial violence in America
Just Trying to Have School
The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi
A study of the history of desegregation in Mississippi schools
Full Court Press
Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball
How basketball loosened the grip of segregation and its proponents in the media
Lines Were Drawn
Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School
Oral histories gathered by three graduates of a major high school in Jackson, Mississippi
Three Lives for Mississippi
The only complete, on-the-scene account of the heinous Freedom Summer murders in Mississippi
Right to Revolt
The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods
A revelation of the valorous nonviolent efforts wielded to motivate change in a “moderate” part of the segregated South
The Southern Manifesto
Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation
How one document marked the nadir of American racial politics and unleashed a fire that raged across the segregated South
You Must Be from the North
Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement
How well-meaning and well-to-do Memphis women found themselves in the fray in a city’s civil rights turmoil
Borders of Equality
The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970
A study of the Baltimore NAACP branch and its vanguard efforts including a detailed examination of its longtime president, Lillie M. Jackson
Transformed
A White Mississippi Pastor’s Journey into Civil Rights and Beyond
How a clergyman joined his mayor and fellow ministers to defy massive resistance
Anatomy of Four Race Riots
Racial Conflict in Knoxville, Elaine (Arkansas), Tulsa, and Chicago, 1919-1921
A study of the terrible racial violence that erupted in four different communities of America after World War I
Have We Overcome?
Race Relations Since Brown, 1954-1979
A variety of perspectives on America’s race relations from 1954 through 1979
Running Scared
Silver in Mississippi
The history of a university professor’s daring stand for principles during the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the history behind the writing of his incisive analysis entitled Mississippi: The Closed Society in 1964
A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000
A readable history that puts the current debates in historical context
The Identity Question
Blacks and Jews in Europe and America
A diasporic study of the striking similarities between Jewish consciousness and black consciousness in Europe and America