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
Raymond Pace Alexander
A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia
The story of a nearly forgotten 1930s New Negro lawyer, whose contemporaries included Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, and William Hastie
In the Lion's Mouth
Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900
A history of the alliance between black farmers, sharecroppers, and the People’s Party
Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
A study that highlights the central role African American women writers played in creating the lasting impact and image of the movement
Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt
An exploration of a great American writer's abiding concern with the color line
Daisy Bates
Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas
A biography of the courageous mentor to the Little Rock Nine
Unexpected Places
Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
An argument for a major remapping of the early African American literary landscape
The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello
A study of the famed actor’s barrier-breaking Shakespearean performances
African American Preachers and Politics
The Careys of Chicago
The story of two African American ministers and their struggle to balance both sacred and secular worlds