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This book examines the American presidency through the prism of race and race relations in America, revealing a long and complicated relationship with the African American community. It evaluates each presidents' policies, cabinet appointments, and handling of race matters. Discusses each American president's life and career as well as his policies that affected the African American community. Includes presidents' personal writings, memoirs, autobiographies,...
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This encyclopedia documents the Black Power Movement by its cultural representation and promotion of self-determination and self-defense and showcases the its influence on American Black communities from 1965 to the mid-1970s. It provides an understanding of Black Power's important role in the turbulence, social change, and politics of the 1960s and 1970s in America and how the concepts of the movement continue to influence contemporary Black politics,...
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When the father of Linda Brown, an African American, sued to let his child go to a "white school" closer to home, history was made. When the court decided that "separate was inherently unequal," the world changed for many students across America. Readers will learn what led up to the case, how the case made it to the Supreme Court, and how this case changed everything when it came to race equality in the United States. Also included are questions...
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