<p>Newarkβs volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. <b>Newark</b> c
Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America (American History and Culture)
β Scribed by Kevin Mumford
- Year
- 2007
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- English
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- 321
- Category
- Library
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Our nation began with the simple phrase, βWe the People.β But who were and are βWeβ? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of today? With Made in Americ
Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formida
Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.
xix, 248 pages : 23 cm