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Black History Month 2020: African Americans and the Vote: Books

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At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch
Call Number: E185.615 .B67 2006
ISBN: 9780684857121
Publication Date: 2006-01-10
Black Ballots by Steven F. Lawson
Call Number: JK1929.A2 L3
ISBN: 0231039786
Publication Date: 1976-12-01
The Civil Rights Movement in America by Charles W. Eagles (Editor)
Call Number: E185.615 .C585 1986
ISBN: 9780878052981
Publication Date: 1986-09-01
Eyes on the Prize by Juan Williams; Julian Bond (Introduction by)
Call Number: KF4757 .W52 1987
ISBN: 0670814121
Publication Date: 1987-01-26
In Pursuit of Power by Steven F. Lawson
Call Number: E185.92 .L37 1985
ISBN: 023104626X
Publication Date: 1987-04-01
Reaping the Whirlwind by Robert J. Norrell
Call Number: F334.T96 N67 1985
ISBN: 0394536886
Publication Date: 1985-08-12
Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World by Sue Peabody; Keila Grinberg
Call Number: KDZ546 .P43 2007
ISBN: 9780312411763
Publication Date: 2007-03-20
Voices of Freedom by Henry Hampton; Steve Fayer; Harold Frazer
Call Number: E185.61 .H224 1991
ISBN: 9780553352320
Publication Date: 1991-02-01
Voting and the Spirit of American Democracy by Donald W. Rogers (Editor)
Call Number: JK1846 .V68 1992
ISBN: 0252019180
Publication Date: 1992-03-01
Words of Protest, Words of Freedom by Jeffrey Lamar Coleman (Editor)
Call Number: PS595.R32 W549 2012
ISBN: 9780822351030
Publication Date: 2012-03-09

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African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 by Ann D. Gordon (Editor); Betty Collier-Thomas (Editor); John H. Bracey (Editor); Arlene V. Avakian (Editor); Joyce A. Berkman (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781558490581
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Ballot Blocked by Jesse H. Rhodes
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780804797597
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
The Chicago Freedom Movement by Mary Lou Finley (Contribution by, Editor); Gilbert Cornfield (Contribution by); Melody Heaps (Contribution by); Norman Hill (Contribution by); Jesse Jackson (Contribution by); Kimberlie Jackson (Contribution by); Herman Jenkins (Contribution by); Jonathan Lewis (Contribution by); Allegra Malone (Contribution by); Molly Martindale (Contribution by); Christopher Robert Reed (Contribution by); Bernard LaFayette (Contribution by, Editor); Don Rose (Contribution by); Leonard Rubinowitz (Contribution by); Gail Schechter (Contribution by); Al Sharpton (Contribution by); Brian White (Contribution by); James R. Ralph (Contribution by, Editor); Pam Smith (Contribution by, Editor); Clayborne Carson (Foreword by); Gene Barge (Contribution by); Hal Baron (Contribution by); Sherrilynn J. Bevel (Contribution by); Jimmy Collier (Contribution by)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780813166506
Publication Date: 2016-03-10
Colorblind Injustice by J. Morgan Kousser
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780807824313
Publication Date: 1999-01-25
Count Them One by One by Gordon A. Martin
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781604737899
Publication Date: 2010-09-27
Defying Disfranchisement by R. Volney Riser
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780807136386
Publication Date: 2010-05-24
The Dream Is Lost by Julian Maxwell Hayter
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780813169491
Publication Date: 2017-05-15
For a Voice and the Vote by Lisa Anderson Todd
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780813147154
Publication Date: 2014-12-15
The Future of the Voting Rights Act by Rodolfo O. de La Garza (Editor); Richard H. Pildes (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780871540720
Publication Date: 2006-09-21
Jim Crow Capital by Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781469646718
Publication Date: 2018-11-19
LBJ's American Promise by Garth E. Pauley
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781585445813
Publication Date: 2006-12-01
Race over Party by Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781469640402
Publication Date: 2018-05-21
Robert Parris Moses by Laura Visser-Maessen
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781469627984
Publication Date: 2016-05-30
Savannah in the New South by Walter J. Fraser
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781611178364
Publication Date: 2018-02-28
The Shadow of Selma by Joe Street (Editor); Henry Knight Lozano (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780813056692
Publication Date: 2018-02-27
Suffrage Reconstructed by Laura E. Free
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780801450860
Publication Date: 2015-11-06
This Bright Light of Ours by Maria Gitin; Lewis V. Baldwin (Foreword by)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780817318178
Publication Date: 2014-02-11
The Voting Rights Act by Harvey Parish (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781633219755
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
When the Letter Betrays the Spirit by Tyson D. King-Meadows
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780739149126
Publication Date: 2011-08-18