Civil Rights and African American Studies

Featuring award-winning books covering the achievements and triumphs of Black Americans—and the ongoing fight for political, social, and economic equality.

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Cover image for book, A Higher Mission by Kimberly D. Hill

Cover image for book, A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by George E. Kent

Cover image for book, Alpha Phi Alpha edited by Gregory S. Parks and Stefan M. Bradley

Cover image for book, America's First Black Socialist by Nikki M. Taylor

Cover image for book, Black Coal Miners in America by Ronald L. Lewis

Cover image for book, Black Greek-letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century edited by Gregory S. Parks

Cover image for book, Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South by Tracy E. K'Meyer

Cover image for book, Constructing Affirmative Action by David Hamilton Golland

Cover image for book, Fifty Years of Segregation by John A. Hardin

Cover image for book, Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings by Brian Purnell

Cover image for book, Freedom's Main Line by Derek Charles Catsam

Cover image for book, Gateway to Equality by Keona K. Ervin

Cover image for book, Liberty Brought Us Here by Susan E. Lindsey

Cover image for book, Raising Racists by Kristina DuRocher

Cover image for book, River Jordan by Joe William Trotter Jr.

Cover image of book, Subversive Southerner by Catherine Fosl

Cover image of book, The Assault on Elisha Green by Randolph Paul Runyon

Cover image of book, The Prince of Jockeys by Pellom McDaniels III

Cover image of book, The Struggle is Eternal by Joseph R. Fitzgerald

Cover image of book, Yes We Did? by Cynthia Greggs Fleming

Cover image for book, A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass edited by Neil Roberts

Cover image for book, A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois edited by Nick Bromell

Cover image for book, An Unseen Light edited by Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Jr.

Cover image for book, Appalachians and Race edited by John C. Inscoe

Cover image for book, Blacks in Appalachia edited by William H. Turner and Edward J. Cabbell

Cover image for book, Bluejackets and Contrabands by Barbara Brooks Tomblin

Cover image for book, Democracy Rising by Peter F. Lau

Cover image for book, Episcopalians and Race by Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr.

Cover image for book, For a Voice and the Vote by Lisa Anderson Todd

Cover image for book, For Jobs and Freedom by Robert H. Zieger

Cover image for book, In Peace and Freedom by Bernard LaFayette Jr. and Kathryn Lee Johnson

Cover image for book, In Remembrance of Emmett Till by Darryl Mace

Cover image for book, My Brother Slaves by Sergio A. Lussana

Cover image for book, Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement by Joe William Trotter Jr.

Cover image for book, River of Hope by Elizabeth Gritter

Cover image for book, Roy Wilkins by Yvonne Ryan

Cover image of book, The Chicago Freedom Movement edited by Mary Lou Finley, Bernard LaFayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr. and Pam Smith

Cover image for book, The Dream Is Lost by Julian Maxwell Hayter

Cover image of book, This Little Light of Mine by Kay Mills

Cover image of book, Thunder of Freedom by Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner

Cover image for book, African American Fraternities and Sororities, Second Edition, edited by Tamara L. Brown, Gregory S. Parks, and Clarenda M. Phillips

Cover image for book, After the Dream by Timothy J. Minchin and John A. Salmond

Cover image for book, Art for Equality by Jenny Woodley

Cover image for book, Becoming King by Troy Jackson

Cover image for book, Bound to the Fire by Kelley Fanto Deetz

Cover image for book, Civil Rights Crossroads by Steven F. Lawson

Cover image for book, Faith in Black Power by Kerry Pimblott

Cover image for book, Family or Freedom by Emily West

Cover image for book, Freedom on the Border by Catherine Fosl and Tracy E. K'Meyer

Cover image for book, Freedom Rights edited by Danielle L. McGuire and John Dittmer

Cover image for book, Integrated by James W. Miller

Cover image for book, James and Esther Cooper Jackson by Sara Rzeszutek

Cover image for book, Race and Liberty in America by Jonathan Bean

Cover image for book, Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South by John C. Inscoe

Cover image for book, Selma to Saigon by Daniel S. Lucks

Cover image of book, Sidelined by Simon Henderson

Cover image for book, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia edited by Gerald L. Smith, Karen Cotton McDaniel and John A. Hardin

Cover image of book, The Politics of Richard Wright edited by Jane Anna Gordon and Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh

Cover image of book, Toward Freedom Land by Harvard Sitkoff

Cover image of book, We Will Win The Day by Louis Moore