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Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies New perspectives on African American history, literature, and art, and politics. Recent titles include: Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia; African American Preachers and Politics. Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas All Stories Are True: History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation Borders of Equality: The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970 Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900 Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West Justice Older than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt Perspectives on Percival Everett The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950 Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia Remembering Reet and Shine: Two Black Men, One Struggle Searching for the New Black Man: Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies Shadowing Ralph Ellison The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer To Tell It Like It Is Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement	Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter BOOKFRIENDS JUKE JOINT Membership Party Join us on Facebook See our authors READ OUR BLOG On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special. Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All (read more...)