{"product_id":"jim-crow-voices-from-a-century-of-struggle-part-2-loa-387-1919-1976-tulsa-to-the-boston-busing-crisis-9781598538014","title":"Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 2 (Loa #387): 1919-1976: Tulsa to the Boston Busing Crisis","description":"\u003cb\u003eA vivid firsthand record of the struggle for legal equality and dignity in the face of segregation and racial terror from 1919 to 1976\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eW.E.B. Du Bois famously identified \"the problem of the color-line\" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle, Part Two\u003c\/i\u003e brings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony and appeals, judicial opinions, and poems and song lyrics--more than ninety essential texts in all--from the end of the bloody \"Red Summer\" of 1919 to the Boston busing crisis of 1974-76. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals, including \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- B. C. Franklin on the Tulsa Massacre\u003cbr\u003e- Robert Russa Moton's suppressed address on the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial\u003cbr\u003e- Alain Locke's tribute to \"the New Negro\"\u003cbr\u003e- Ned Cobb's recounting of the harsh realities of sharecropping\u003cbr\u003e- Thurgood Marshall on police brutality in wartime Detroit\u003cbr\u003e- Rosa Parks's appeal for justice for Recy Taylor\u003cbr\u003e- Earl Warren's landmark opinion in \u003ci\u003eBrown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - Paul Robeson's defiant response to congressional inquisitors\u003cbr\u003e- Fannie Lou Hamer's eloquent challenge to disenfranchisement in Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e- and James Baldwin on the myths and meaning of the American Dream \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso presented are white supremacist writings from the 1920s Klan and the Dixiecrats of 1948; examples of Southern voter literacy tests; blues lyrics sung by Bessie Smith and Big Bill Broonzy; Robert F. Williams's controversial call for armed Black self-defense; speeches by Marcus Garvey and Stokeley Carmichael; letters in the Black press about Confederate monuments; Ann Moody on her childhood in segregated Mississippi; and Mary McLeod Bethune's advocacy for reproductive rights as an essential element of democratic freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the teaching of our nation's history, especially the history of race in America, becomes increasingly contested, this book will serve as a vital resource, a crucial reminder of where we've been, how far we've come, and how long the road ahead remains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTyina Steptoe\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of history at the University of Arizona and the author of \u003ci\u003eHouston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), which received awards from the Urban History Association and the Western History Association. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Journal of African American History, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e. She hosts \"Soul Stories,\" a weekly radio program on KXCI FM, which explores the history of rhythm and blues.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359311298834,"sku":"9781598538014","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aa4fcd1e-f7ed-43cc-a39e-bc963b65f7f8.jpg?v=1749588364","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jim-crow-voices-from-a-century-of-struggle-part-2-loa-387-1919-1976-tulsa-to-the-boston-busing-crisis-9781598538014","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}