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New York

No 9 Belmont Square

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Family at Tammerton

Harriet Farewell

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Idaho

Give Up The Ghost {Ace, 1949}

Vintage Gothic paperback from 1968. Ace first printing.

Arizona

The Ewe Lamb

South Carolina

No. 9 Belmont Square

The Silver Ladies

Booker T. Washington

Charles W. Chesnutt

W. E. B. Du Bois

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Claude McKay

Lillian Smith

Langston Hughes

Erskine Caldwell

Richard Wright

Ralph Ellison

Eudora Welty

Robert Hayden

Margaret Walker

Gwendolyn Brooks

James Baldwin

Flannery O'Connor

Audre. Lorde

Estate of Lucille Clifton

June Jordan

Michael S. Harper

Haki Madhubuti

Nikki Giovanni

Constance Curry

Toi Derricotte

Wanda Coleman

Marilyn Nelson

Rita Dove

Anthony Grooms

Cyrus Cassells

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Frances E. W. Harper

Mary Burrill

Angelina Weld Grimké

Dudley Randall

Martin Luther King

Howard Sackler

Eldridge Cleaver

David Hernandez

Bebe Moore Campbell

Patricia J. Williams

Walter Mosley

Amiri Baraka

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation

This title offers perspectives on civil rights not found in history books. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-1968 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a complex, ongoing process of defining national values such as freedom, justice, and equality. In ways that historical documents cannot, these collected writings show how Americans negotiated this process - politically, philosophically, emotionally, spiritually, and creatively.Gathered here are works by some of the most influential writers to engage issues of race and social justice in America, including James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Amiri Baraka, and Nikki Giovanni. The volume begins with works from the post-Reconstruction period when racial segregation became legally sanctioned and institutionalized. This section, titled 'The Rise of Jim Crow,' spans the period from Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. In the second section, 'The Fall of Jim Crow,' Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and a chapter from ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"" appear alongside poems by Robert Hayden, June Jordan, and others who responded to these key figures and to the events of the time.'Reflections and Continuing Struggles,' the last section, includes works by such current authors as Rita Dove, Anthony Grooms, and Patricia J. Williams. These diverse perspectives on the struggle for civil rights can promote the kinds of conversations that we, as a nation, still need to initiate.

The Civil Rights Reader

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