A Seat at the Table

Edited by Hettie V. Williams & Melissa Ziobro
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Omar H. Ali, Simone R. Barrett, Tejai Beulah, Sandra Bolzenius, Carol Fowler, Lacey P. Hunter, Tiera C. Moore, Tedi A. Pascarella, John Portlock, Lauren T. Rorie, Tanya L. Roth, Marissa ...

Wading In

By Amy Lemco
Categories: African American Studies

Wading In: Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast frames the fight for beach and school desegregation within the history of Black life in Biloxi, beginning with the arrival of slave ships on the Gulf ...

This Light of Ours

Edited by Leslie G. Kelen
Foreword by Julian Bond
Afterword by Clayborne Carson
Contributions by Matt Herron & Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Categories: Photography

This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine photographers who participated ...

Activism in the Name of God

Edited by Jami L. Carlacio
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely McLaughlin, Darcy Metcalfe, Phillip Luke Sinitiere, P. ...

Terror and Truth

By Stephen A. King & Roger Davis Gatchet
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Stephen A. King and Roger Davis Gatchet examine how Mississippi confronts its history of racial violence and injustice through civil rights tourism. Mississippi’s civil rights memorials include a vast ...

Path to Grace

By Ethel Morgan Smith
Categories: Civil Rights
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Winner of the 2023 Eudora Welty Prize

The civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. ...

Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years

Edited by Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Contributions by Murali Balaji, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Christopher Cameron, Carlton Dwayne Floyd, Robert Greene II, Andre E. Johnson, Werner Lange, Lisa J. McLeod, Jodi Melamed, Tyler Monson, Eric Porter, ...

The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education

By Wanda Little Fenimore
Categories: Civil Rights
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

As early as 1947, Black parents in rural South Carolina began seeking equal educational opportunities for their children. After two unsuccessful lawsuits, these families directly challenged legally mandated ...

Funkiest Man Alive

By Matthew Ruddick
Foreword by Rob Bowman
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: American Made Music Series

Rufus Thomas may not be a household name, but he is widely regarded as the patriarch of Memphis R&B, and his music influenced three generations. His first singles in the early 1950s were recorded as blues ...

William Levi Dawson

By Mark Hugh Malone
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: American Made Music Series

William Levi Dawson (1899–1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger, conductor, and professor of music. In William Levi Dawson: American ...