The Children Bob Moses Led
 During Freedom Summer 1964, white college students from the North traveled to Mississippi to help with voter registration, living with black families and taking orders from battle-tested field secretaries of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. [... more]
$0.25
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The Children Bob Moses Led
Amazon.com Review: A powerful book, The Children Bob Moses Led proves wonderfully reminiscent of that long-gone time when it really seemed as if blacks and whites would walk hand-in-hand and change America. Bob Moses, one of the heroes of the civil [... more]
$12.95
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The Children Bob Moses Led
During Freedom Summer 1964, white college students from the North traveled to Mississippi to help with voter registration, living with black families and taking orders from battle-tested field secretaries of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. [... more]
$0.87
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
Amazon.com Review: One of the greatest of American stories has found its great chronicler in Taylor Branch. Beginning with Parting the Waters in 1988, followed 10 years later by Pillar of Fire, and closing now with At Canaan's Edge, Branch has given the [... more]
$17.99
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Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights
Well-intentioned but overhyped and unconvincing: I've heard a lot about this book, and in fact I will be involved in a faculty summer discussion group about it. Some people I respect think very highly of it. I can't for the life of me understand why. [... more]
$14.00
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Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63
Amazon.com Review: The first book of a formidable three-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than just a biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the decade preceding his emergence as a national figure. Branch's thousand-page [... more]
$22.00
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Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the ...
Well-intentioned but overhyped and unconvincing: I've heard a lot about this book, and in fact I will be involved in a faculty summer discussion group about it. Some people I respect think very highly of it. I can't for the life of me understand why. [... more]
$16.00
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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of ...
Armed Resistance to the Viciousness of Jim Crow: Ultimately, the notion of white supremacy and the so-called glory of the Lost Cause always devolved to the use of violence and intimidation against black people and any one who sided with them. Williams' [... more]
$22.95
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Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in ...
An essential book on civil rights movement history: Much of our common knowledge of U.S. civil rights movement's history comes from books and films portraying the nationally known struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This book tells a different story - the [... more]
$25.00
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And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and ...
An unsung hero, Bob Moses: This book gives Bob Moses the attention his life deserves. You should also check out The Children Bob Moses Led by William Heath. It's a novel that blends fact with fiction to tell the story of Moses and Freedom Summer. A TRUE [... more]
$23.00
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
Amazon.com Review: One of the greatest of American stories has found its great chronicler in Taylor Branch. Beginning with Parting the Waters in 1988, followed 10 years later by Pillar of Fire, and closing now with At Canaan's Edge, Branch has given the [... more]
$35.00
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In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
Great analysis of black empowerment: This book traces the rise and fall of SNCC:the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. At the time Carson wrote it, it was one of the few books on the Civil Rights Movement that didn't focus on Martin Luther King [... more]
$24.50
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