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Product Description: This study examines the relation between political action and political oratory, with special attention to how these were experienced in the African American community. It focuses on three special cases; Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon...read more

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9780773413177 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 30, 2012, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: This study examines the relation between political action and political oratory, with special attention to how these were experienced in the African American community.

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Product Description: What happened to black youth in the post-civil rights generation? What kind of causes did they rally around and were they even rallying in the first place? After the Rebellion takes a close look at a variety of key civil rights groups across the country over the last 40 years to provide a broad view of black youth and social movement activism...read more

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9780814789384 | New York Univ Pr, July 11, 2014, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: What happened to black youth in the post-civil rights generation?

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9780814764817 | New York Univ Pr, July 11, 2014, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: What happened to black youth in the post-civil rights generation?

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By Barbara Smith (contributor)

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9781438451152 | State Univ of New York Pr, November 1, 2014, cover price $100.00

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9781438451145 | State Univ of New York Pr, November 1, 2014, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: "I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly established himself as one of the greatest orators of all time...read more

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9780230103689 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, January 4, 2011), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: "I have a dream.

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9780230337558 | Reprint edition (Griffin, March 13, 2012), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: "I have a dream.

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Product Description: Shortly after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a government report titled The Negro Family: A Case for National Action that captured the attention of President Lyndon Johnson. Responding to the demands of African American activists that the United States go beyond civil rights to secure economic justice, Moynihan thought his analysis of black families highlighted socioeconomic inequality...read more

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9780812247312 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, June 19, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Shortly after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a government report titled The Negro Family: A Case for National Action that captured the attention of President Lyndon Johnson.

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9780520271852 | Univ of California Pr, January 14, 2013, cover price $45.00

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9780520282223 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, January 10, 2014), cover price $27.95

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9780415819343 | Routledge, December 19, 2012, cover price $145.00

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9781138920866 | Reprint edition (Routledge, May 21, 2015), cover price $44.95

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Product Description: Bob Dylan is an iconic figure in American musical and cultural history, lauded by Time magazine as one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century. For nearly fifty years the singer-songwriter has crafted his unique brand of music, from his 1962 self-titled debut album to 2009's #1 hit Together Through Life, appealing to everyone from baby boomers to the twenty-somethings who storm the stage at his concerts...read more

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9780300124576 | Yale Univ Pr, May 24, 2011, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Bob Dylan is an iconic figure in American musical and cultural history, lauded by Time magazine as one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century.

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9780300181876 | Yale Univ Pr, June 19, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Bob Dylan is an iconic figure in American musical and cultural history, lauded by Time magazine as one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century.

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Product Description: In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization...read more

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9780195174557 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York.

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9781250073006 | Thomas Dunne Books, June 14, 2016, cover price $27.99

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Product Description: In this, the first comprehensive history of Kennedy's civil rights record over the course of his entire political career, Nick Bryant shows that Kennedy's shrewd handling of the race issue in his early congressional campaigns blinded him as President to the intractability of the simmering racial crisis in America...read more

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9780465008261 | Basic Books, May 29, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of John F.

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9780465008278 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, September 10, 2007), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In this, the first comprehensive history of Kennedy's civil rights record over the course of his entire political career, Nick Bryant shows that Kennedy's shrewd handling of the race issue in his early congressional campaigns blinded him as President to the intractability of the simmering racial crisis in America.

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By Henry Louis Gates (foreword by) and Time Magazine (corporate author)

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9781618931177 | Time Inc Home Entertainment, January 7, 2014, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: Examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, this book pushes the timeframe for the study of interactions between blacks and a variety of Latino/a groups beyond the standard chronology of the civil rights era...read more
By Kevin Allen Leonard (contributor)

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9780820349169 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 2016, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day.

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9780816694044 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 17, 2014, cover price $90.00

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9780816694051 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 17, 2014, cover price $29.95

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9781680480481 | Britannica Educational Pub, August 1, 2015, cover price $32.90

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Product Description: Praise for the book when it was first published:'William T. Martin Riches has written a book for undergraduates and general audiences that provides an excellent introduction to and review of the U.S. civil rights movement'- Michael D...read more

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9780230237056 | 3 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2010), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Praise for the book when it was first published:'William T.
9781403916044 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, March 4, 2004), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This completely revised and updated edition of a popular text focuses on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945-2002.
9780312174033 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1997, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This completely revised and updated edition of a popular text focuses on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945-2002.

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9780230237063 | 3 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2010), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Praise for the book when it was first published:'William T.
9781403916051 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 14, 2004), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This completely revised and updated edition of a popular text focuses on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945-2002.
9780312174040 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1997, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This popular text focuses on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945-2002.

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Product Description: While there have been a number of studies that have explored African American “movement culture” and African American “movement politics,” rarely has the mixture of black music and black politics or, rather, black music an as expression of black movement politics, been explored across several genres of African American “movement music,” and certainly not with a central focus on the major soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement: gospel, freedom songs, rhythm & blues, and rock & roll...read more

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9781498531788 | Lexington Books, May 26, 2016, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: While there have been a number of studies that have explored African American “movement culture” and African American “movement politics,” rarely has the mixture of black music and black politics or, rather, black music an as expression of black movement politics, been explored across several genres of African American “movement music,” and certainly not with a central focus on the major soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement: gospel, freedom songs, rhythm & blues, and rock & roll.

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9781498531801 | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, May 3, 2016), cover price $46.99 | About this edition: While there have been a number of studies that have explored African American “movement culture” and African American “movement politics,” rarely has the mixture of black music and black politics or, rather, black music an as expression of black movement politics, been explored across several genres of African American “movement music,” and certainly not with a central focus on the major soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement: gospel, freedom songs, rhythm & blues, and rock & roll.

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Product Description: An analysis of the CSCE/OSCE process from the perspective of security regime formation and an evaluation of its contribution to European security. This book systematically examines the whole CSCE/OSCE process from a non-European perspective, bearing in mind the transferability of the OSCE to other regions...read more

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9780333683200 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1997, cover price $55.01 | also contains Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 | About this edition: An analysis of the CSCE/OSCE process from the perspective of security regime formation and an evaluation of its contribution to European security.
9780312161804 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 1997, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the CSCE/OSCE process from the perspective of security regime formation and an evaluation of its contribution to European security.

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Product Description: Daddy King is that rare American iconic hero who has never been captured in a biography worthy of his stature as one of America s greatest civil rights activists. Now, at last, here is an inside view of the preacher, teacher and ...read more

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9780982258323, titled "Daddy King & Me: Memories of the Forgotten Father of the Civil Rights Movement" | Continental Shelf Pub Llc, September 1, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Daddy King is that rare American iconic hero who has never been captured in a biography worthy of his stature as one of America s greatest civil rights activists.

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9781611861310, titled "Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers" | Michigan State Univ Pr, April 1, 2014, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King's prophetic utterances galvanized the civil rights movement and became a touchstone for all that the country might someday achieve...read more

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9780786262328 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes the 1963 March on Washington and provides an analysis of King's history-making speech, examining it as a political treatise, a work of poetry, and an effectively delivered sermon filled with biblical imagery.
9780060084769 | Ecco Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Describes the 1963 March on Washington and provides an analysis of King's history-making speech, examining it as a political treatise, a work of poetry, and an effectively delivered sermon filled with biblical imagery.

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9780060084776 | Perennial, February 1, 2005, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Describes the 1963 March on Washington and provides an analysis of King's history-making speech, examining it as a political treatise, a work of poetry, and an effectively delivered sermon filled with biblical imagery.

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9781439558201 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 4, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr.

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