February 2005 | Black History

These are a sampling of the books in the Bankier Library collection.

Chace, William M. Justice Denied; The Black Man in White America. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970.

Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: the Road to Freedom. Boston, Mass.: Little Brown, 2004.

Dalton, Harlon L. Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear Between Blacks and Whites. New York: Doubleday, 1995.

D'Souza, Dinesh. The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society. New York: Free Press, 1995.

Franklin, John Hope. The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993.

Friese, Kai. Rosa Parks: The Movement Organizes. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1990.

Haines, Herbert H. Black Radicals and the Civil Rights Mainstream, 1954-1970. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988.

Hess, Debra. Thurgood Marshall: The Fight for Equal Justice; introduction by Andrew Young. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1990.

Humez, Jean McMahon. Harriet Tubman: the Life and the Life Stories. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

Kasher, Steven. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68. New York: Abbeville Press, 1996.

King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1929-1968. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? New York: Harper & Row 1967.

Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1991.

Minchin, Timothy J. Hiring the Black Worker: The racial integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Muse, Benjamin. The American Negro Revolution: From Nonviolence to Black Power. New York: Citadel Press, 1970.

Murdoch, Tony. Black Civil Rights in the USA 1954-1970, Pam O'Connell, John Rosanowski. Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul, 1987.

Petry, Ann Lane. Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad. New York, Washington Square Press. 1971.

Rubel, David. Fannie Lou Hamer: From Sharecropping to Politics. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Silver Burdett Press, 1990.

Steele, Shelby. A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.

Ward, Brian. Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations. Berkeley Calif.: University of California Press, 1998.

Wiencek, Henry. An Imperfect God: George Washington, his Slaves, and the Creation of America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Wilkinson, Brenda Scott. Jesse Jackson: Still Fighting For the Dream. introduction by Andrew Young. Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1990.

Wilkins, Roger W. Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.

Williamson, Joel. The Crucible of Race: Black/White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

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