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Items with the tag:

civil rights

Essay

Read­ing Free­dom Summer

by Dina Wein­steinBooks on the 1964 Mis­sis­sip­pi Free­dom Sum­mer are clas­si­fied under African Amer­i­can his­to­ry and civ­il rights. But the project was rife with Jew­ish…
Dina Wein­stein
June 18, 2014
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Chil­dren’s
Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosen­wald Helped Change African Amer­i­can Education
Nor­man H. Finkelstein
Essay

So What the Heck Happened?

Ear­li­er this week, Mary Glick­man wrote about the sim­i­lar­i­ties in the cul­tur­al nar­ra­tives of African Amer­i­cans and Jews and a strange inter­view ques­tion. Her…
Mary Glick­man
December 27, 2013
Essay

There’s Some­thing About Moses

Ear­li­er this week, Mary Glick­man wrote about a strange inter­view ques­tion. Her most recent book, March­ing to Zion (Open Road Media), is now avail­able. She is…
Mary Glick­man
December 25, 2013
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Good Trou­ble: Lessons from the Civ­il Rights Playbook
Christo­pher Noxon
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Call Me Phae­dra: The Life and Times of Move­ment Lawyer Fay Stender
Lise Pearl­man
Cover of You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
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You Need a School­house: Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, Julius Rosen­wald, and the Build­ing of Schools for the Seg­re­gat­ed South
Stephanie Deutsch
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Chil­dren’s
A Tug­ging String: A Nov­el About Grow­ing Up Dur­ing the Civ­il Rights Era
David T. Greenberg
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Levit­town: Two Fam­i­lies, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civ­il Rights in Amer­i­ca’s Leg­endary Suburb
David Kushner
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Hot Pur­suit: Mur­der in Mississippi
Stacia Deutsch; Craig Orback, illus.
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Shared Dreams: Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. & the Jew­ish Community 
Rab­bi Marc Schneier
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