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Exporting American Dreams
Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional negoti... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Modern America)
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States' segr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment?
Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had "changed everything" permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events of September 11 have been used to justify profound changes in U. S. public policy and foreign relat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education
by Kal Alston • Margaret L Andersen • Kathryn H. Anthony • Nathaniel C Banks • Bernice McNair Barnett • Christopher Benson • Ed Blankenheim • Julian Bond • Orville Vernon Burton • Jason Chambers • Constance Curry • Joseph A. De Laine • Mary L. Dudziak • Joe Feagin • John Hope Franklin • Ophelia De Gona • Lani Guinier • Darlene Clark Hine • Freeman A. Hrabowski • John Jennings • Ralph Lemon • George Lipsitz • Jim Loewen • Laughlin McDonald • David O'Brien • James C. Onderdonk • Sekou Sundiata • Christopher Teal • Nicholas Watkins • Carrie Mae Weems • Juan Williams • Joy Ann WIlliamsonInspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary in 2004, this collection addresses the significance of the Brown decision in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights. The book stands as a historic document i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009