A true story, based on court records, correspondences, and newspaper accounts past and present, this stunning historical achievement brilliantly illuminates an extraordinary event in the long, dark history of slavery in America. In 1850, 14-year-old Celia became the property of Robert Newsome, a prosperous and respected Missouri farmer. For the ...
The author of this book recalls his boyhood during the 1950s in the small hometown of Wade, North Carolina, where whites and blacks lived and worked within each other's shadows.
With candor and perception, McLaurin recalls his youth in wade, North Carolina, in the 1950s, when racial segregation still existed unchallenged and nearly unquestioned in the rural South. Resisting hindsight and sentimentality, McLaurin gazes unwaveringly at his own frailties and those of the blacks and other whites who moved within his small ...
With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps - the last all-white branch of the U.S. military - was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point, adjacent to Camp Lejeune, near Jacksonville, ...
This study offers evidence to refute the entrenched view that Southern mill workers rejected the overtures of organized labor, and shows how management's shrewd use of social, economic, and political pressures supressed serious organizational efforts there until World War I.
This title presents the story of the pioneering troops, in their own words. With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps - the last all-white branch of the U.S. military - was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the ...
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