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Historians have long realized the US civil rights movement pre-dated Martin Luther King Jr., but they disagree on where,

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Laboured Protest: Black Civil Rights in New York City and Detroit During the New Deal and Second World War
0429673191, 9780429673191

Since the 1960s, most U.S. History has been written as if the civil rights movement were primarily or entirely a Souther

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The period between 1880 and 1915 marked the first sustained migration of black people into New York City as blacks and w

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In the stirring signature number from the 1944 Broadway musical "On the Town," three sailors on a 24-hour sear

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Reds at the Blackboard recounts the rise of a unique type of unionism in the early twentieth century that would later do

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This is the story of the men who fought and died in the 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Part of D

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This is the third volume (and the fourth chronologically) in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumenta

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Chronicles the experiences of a black female teaching in public schools in the South Bronx in the era of No Child Left B

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*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of colonial New York *Includes a bibliography for further reading “O

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Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence 2016 During the Great Migration of the 1920s and 1930s, sout

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Using an innovative blending of ideological, implementation, and comparative institutional analysis, this book takes the

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