Product Description: Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in February 2009, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has been the leading and best-known African American civil rights organization in the United States...read more

This comprehensive and detailed study recounts more than five decades of struggle for justice and equality in the South's most ethnically diverse and racially complex state.

Traces the efforts of African Americans to achieve equality and civil rights in the era following the collapse of Reconstruction to the present day, examining such key events as Ida B. Wells's campaign against lynching in the 1890s, the formation of the NAACP, Marcus Garvey and the growth of black nationalism, and the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. Reprint.

Product Description: To Redeem the Soul of America looks beyond the towering figure of Martin Luther King, Jr., to disclose the full workings of the organization that supported him. As Adam Fairclough reveals the dynamics within the Southern Christian Leadership Conference he shows how Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Wyatt Walker, Andrew Young, and others also played a hand in the triumphs of Selma and Birmingham and the frustrations of Albany and Chicago...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Star Creek Papers is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s.When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they entered a world where the legacy of slavery was miscegenation, lingering paternalism, and deadly racism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Chronicles the life and work of the civil rights leader, discussing his philosophies and politics, his response to Black power, and his concern for the poor, both Black and white