Civil rights

Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning

Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion

African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago

African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas

And One Was a Priest: The Life and Times of Duncan M. Gray Jr.

Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle

Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South

Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities

Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South

Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights

Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television

City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn

Civil Rights Childhood

Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South

Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association

The Civil Rights Movement in America

The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture

Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote

Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South

The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936

Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas

Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels

For Us, the Living

Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust

The Fruits of Integration: Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990

The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980

A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000

Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist

The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America

Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States

James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story

Justice Older than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree

The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure

Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta

Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture

Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers

Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi

Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic: His Final, Great Speech

Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis

Mississippi Liberal: A Biography of Frank E. Smith

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights

Mississippi: The Closed Society

Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism

No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey through the American South

On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities across America

Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964

The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement

Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field

Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 Third Edition

Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia

Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch

Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890-1901

The Rise of David Duke

The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC

The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South

Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement

Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights

The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer To Tell It Like It Is

This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

Three Lives for Mississippi

Transformed: A White Mississippi Pastor's Journey into Civil Rights and Beyond

Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War

Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

Why I Left America and Other Essays

Witness to Injustice

Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965

The World of Richard Wright

You Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement

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Film Friday: Mary Wickes

This is first installment of Film Friday, a new feature that will appear in this space on a semi-weekly basis and will highlight UPM's growing list of film studies books. Today's post focuses on the latest addition to the Hollywood Legends Series - Steve Taravella's: Mary Wickes: I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before.  Moviegoers will remember Mary Wickes as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the

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