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1) Jim Crow: voices from a century of struggle.Part One:1876-1919 : Reconstruction to the Red Summer
Series
Library of America volume 376
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War. A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction--and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies. W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line"...
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Series
Library of America volume 378
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A deluxe hardcover edition of Keller's classic memoir The Story of My Life--presented in complete and unredacted form--along with the brilliant, still-underappreciated personal essays of The World I Live In, in which Keller reflects on the senses, language, philosophy, dreams, and belief. Includes a selection of more than a dozen essays, speeches, and letters--most of them out-of-print, previously uncollected, or previously unpublished--revealing...
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Series
Library of America volume 380
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First.
Language
English
Description
"This seventh volume in the definitive Library of America edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's work presents five novels that showcase her literary range. In the Locus Award-winning The Lathe of Heaven (1971), justifiably one of Le Guin's best-known works, George Orr begins have effective dreams: dreams that change reality itself. But when he turns to the sleep researcher William Haber for help, Haber sees an opportunity to use Orr's dreams for his own...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 377
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The 72 columns selected here by editor Dan Barry, more than half of which have not been reprinted since initial publication, reveal Breslin at his best, addressing stories of national and global importance but more often uncovering tales of ordinary New Yorkers, by turns tragic or absurd but always gripping to read. Gathered here are the highlights of his consummate deadline artistry: his celebrated interview with the man who dug the grave for John...
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