Results for "Delmont, Matthew F."

The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, by award-winning historian and civil rights expertWinner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction  A New York Times Notable Book of 2022A 2022 Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and mo... Read More about Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

• Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notable Book• A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, and more!The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civi... Read More about Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

In the decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation’s most controversial civil rights issues. Why Busing Failed is the first book to examine the pitched battles over busing on a nati... Read More about Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (American Crossroads #42)

In the decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation’s most controversial civil rights issues. Why Busing Failed is the first book to examine the pitched battles over busing on a nati... Read More about Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (American Crossroads #42)

American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark’s claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national te... Read More about The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia (American Crossroads #32)

American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark’s claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national te... Read More about The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia (American Crossroads #32)