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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	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...)

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