Segregation in the United States (nonfiction)

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Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen 4.13 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military
The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military 3.97 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League
Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League 3.80 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Moderates’ Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia
The Moderates’ Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America 4.40 avg rating — 4,717 ratings
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 4.21 avg rating — 6,121 ratings
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The Past That Would Not Die
The Past That Would Not Die 3.93 avg rating — 46 ratings
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I Was Right On Time
I Was Right On Time 4.34 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
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Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965
Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South
Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South 4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom 4.21 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation 4.41 avg rating — 6,283 ratings
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Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era
Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy
The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation 3.85 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South 4.54 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935
Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South 4.18 avg rating — 2,342 ratings
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The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines
The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines 3.81 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imagination
Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imagination 3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem
Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism
The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation 4.03 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Minstrelsy and Murder: The Crisis of Southern Humor, 1835–1925
Minstrelsy and Murder: The Crisis of Southern Humor, 1835–1925 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity
The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy
The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown
Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown 2.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
by: Eric Lott
4.14 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration: Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century
Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration: Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow 3.65 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy.
Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy. it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America
Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow 4.32 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop 3.74 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law 3.91 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools 4.31 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,308 ratings
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Freedom to Serve: Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981
Freedom to Serve: Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education (Critical America, 2)
Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education (Critical America, 2) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic 4.08 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs
Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics
Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Portable Frederick Douglass
The Portable Frederick Douglass 4.51 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century
Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century 4.18 avg rating — 40 ratings
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When Harlem Was in Vogue
When Harlem Was in Vogue 3.96 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits
Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits 4.15 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance 3.86 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (American Crossroads) (Volume 42)
Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (American Crossroads) (Volume 42) 4.13 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights
Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation 3.70 avg rating — 50 ratings
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After the Dream: Black and White Southerners since 1965
After the Dream: Black and White Southerners since 1965 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation
Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation 3.69 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings
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From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality 4.17 avg rating — 154 ratings
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A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana
A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Speaking out: The autobiography of Lester Garfield Maddox
Speaking out: The autobiography of Lester Garfield Maddox 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow 4.31 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Riddle of Lester Maddox
The Riddle of Lester Maddox 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Wild Man from Sugar Creek: The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge
The Wild Man from Sugar Creek: The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge 4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation
Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation 4.14 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 3.85 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race
Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race 4.19 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox 3.84 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South
Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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After Appomattox: How the South Won the War
After Appomattox: How the South Won the War 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 4.17 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
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The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction
The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction 3.89 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction
The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction 3.84 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16)
Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16) 4.16 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present
Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The South During Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (A History of the South, Vol 8)
The South During Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (A History of the South, Vol 8) 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era 4.07 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums
Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906
Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865–1949
The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865–1949 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Negro's Civil War
The Negro's Civil War 4.22 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion 4.05 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot 4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings
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