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A Call to Consciousness, a Legacy to Remember: A Conversation with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A Nation without Class: A Social History of Inequality since the 1970s
A Strange Place for a Revolution: Lessons from Black Beauty Shops during an Era of Crisis
African American Veterans and the Struggle for Civil Rights
African American Women's Activism in the Civil Rights Movement
After Civil Rights: Contemporary Race Relations in the American South
American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
An Unlikely Civil Rights Activist: Fred W. Phelps Sr. and Race Relations in Topeka, 1964-1989
Arc of Justice: The Sweet Case and the Course of Civil Rights
B
"Black Lives Matter" and the Persistence of the Sixties
Barack Obama, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Long History of African American Politics
Black Founders: African American Civil Rights Struggles in the Age of Revolution
Black Power/Black Faith: Rethinking the "De-Christianization" of the Black Freedom Struggle
Black-Jewish Cooperation during the Civil Rights Era: Challenges to Minority Group Leadership
Brotherhood and Brotherhoodism in the Civil-Rights-Era South
Building Community-Based Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement
C
Civil Rights
Civil Rights and Antiapartheid
Civil Rights and Race/Ethnic Relations in Trump's America
Civil Rights and the Cold War at Home
Civil Rights before Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights in the Age of Trump
Civil Rights in the Era of Jesse Jackson, 1966-1990
Civil Rights in the Ring: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, and the Struggle over the Color Line
Civil Rights Movement (multiple talks available)
Civil Rights or the War Against Poverty? The Politics of History
Civil Rights Responses to Japanese Internment
Civil Rights Unionism
Civil Rights vs. Civil Liberties: The Case of Hate Speech
Civil War and Civil Rights in Philadelphia
Contemporary Feminism and Civil Rights
D
Difficult Subjects: James H. Meredith, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Problem of Monumental History
Doris Miller, Hero of Pearl Harbor and Catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement
E
Brown and the Civil Rights Movement
Ella Baker: The Woman who Invented the Civil Rights Movement
F
Faith and Leadership in the Northern Civil Rights Movement
Feminism and the Civil Rights Revolution
Fight the Power! The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Follow the Lawyers: How the NAACAP Ignited the Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Riders
Freedom Summer: The History and Legacy of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project
From Civil Rights to Black Power: Modern American Identity and Cultural Politics
From Civil Rights to Human Rights in Twentieth-Century America
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: Laying a Foundation for Change
G
Gloria Richardson
God Is on Our Side: The Sanctification of Civil Rights in the United States
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last Campaign
H
Hate Nation: Fighting Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Homophobia Since the 1970s
Heroes and Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement
How California's Civil Rights History Compels a Rethinking of America's Civil Rights History, from World War II to Bakke
How Filipino Veterans Joined the Greatest Generation, 1945-2009
How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
How We Define Inequality
I
"I AM a Man!": Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Memphis Sanitation Strike
"I Wanted the Whole World to See": Mamie Till Mobley, Mourning Mothers, and Black Freedom Struggles
Interracial Activism in the Los Angeles Community Service Organization: Linking the World War II and Civil Rights Eras
Is Marriage a Civil Right?
J
Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North
Jim Crow: Race, Rights, and Reaction in Twentieth-Century America
Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement
K
King and Malcolm X
L
Latino Civil Rights in Post-World War II America
Law for a Gospel Church: Legal Culture and Civil Rights before Brown
Leadership during the Civil Rights–Black Power Era and Beyond
Liberal NIMBY: American Jews and Civil Rights in the North
Local Legal Culture and the Hidden History of Civil Rights
Lost in the U.S.A.: A New Age Search for Order
M
Making Black Feminist Sense of #BlackLivesMatter
Martin Luther King Jr. and Global Liberation
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Unfinished Agenda
Memorializing the Movement: Civil Rights Commemorations and America's Ideology of Tolerance
Mississippi Burning: Closing the Case on the Civil Rights Killings of 1964
Mobilizing Memory: How to Remember the Civil Rights Movement and Why it Matters
Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and his commitment to Human Rights
Music in the Civil Rights Movement
Myths of the Civil Rights Movement
N
"New York is like Johannesburg": The Global Dimensions of the African American Freedom Movement
Nazis, Red-Baiting, and Civil Rights: Jewish Americans' Emergence as Interracial Activists in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement
P
Pan-Africanism, Labor, and Civil Rights: The Activism of Maida Springer, George McCray, and A. Philip Randolph
Penn Center and the Civil Rights Movement
Public Murals, Community Activism: Latino Murals in Illinois and California
R
Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders
Radical Nonviolence, Interracial Utopias, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Re-Reading Du Bois's Life and Scholarship through a Gendered Lens
Reconsidering the Civil Rights Movement in the Era of Black Lives Matters
Reconstruction from the Right: The United States in the 1970s
Reconstruction: The First Civil Rights Revolution
Reel Memories: Film and the Popular History of the Civil Rights Movement
Rethinking Jim Crow Segregation
Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement in America: The View from the North
Rewriting History: How one teacher, three high school students, and a newspaperman brought justice in the Mississippi Burning case, 41 years after the crime
S
School Desegregation and the History of Brown v. Board of Education
Seedbed of the Modern Civil Rights Movement: A Prequel Story
Separate and Unequal: Racial Oppression in America
Serial Nomination of U. S. Civil Rights Sites to UNESCO's World Heritage List
Sex and the Civil Rights Movement
Southern Jews and the Civil Rights Movement
Southern Religion and Civil Rights
St. Louis before Ferguson: Region, Race, and Civil Rights in a Twentieth-Century City
St. Louis, the Border South, and the Historiography of the Black Freedom Movement
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Subjects, Citizens, Christians: Reconstruction's Religious History
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten History of Civil Rights in the North
T
"The White Mrs. Brown": Esther Brown and the Jewish Women of the Civil Rights Movement
Taking it to the Streets: Chicanx and Puerto Rican Protest Movements
The American Civil Rights Movement in Global Perspective
The Black Panther Party and the Search for Historical Truth
The Campaign for Civil Rights in the National Capital during Reconstruction
The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement and the Rise of Modern Black Conservatism: Rethinking Alliances, Allegiances, and the Complexities of Political Culture
The Civil Rights Movement as Usable Past
The Civil Rights Movement Reconsidered: A Battle against the "Plantation Mentality"
The Civil Rights Movement: America's Best Idea
The Enduring Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
The FBI vs. Martin Luther King
The Forward Together / Moral Monday Movement
The Grassroots History of Colorblind Conservatism
The Half-Life of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement and the Return of Racial Populism
The Inner Life and Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Ku Klux Klan, Yesterday and Today
The Law of Hospitality and the Struggle for Civil Rights in America
The Legacies of A. Philip Randolph: Civil Rights, Labor, and the New Black Politics
The Legacies of Everyday Struggle: Memory and Trauma in Grenada, Mississippi, in the Post-Civil Rights Era
The Long Civil Rights Movement
The Long Civil Rights Movement: The 1940s
The Mississippi of the West: Civil Rights in Las Vegas
The Modern Civil Rights Movement
The Montgomery Bus Boycott as a Women's Movement for Dignity
The Murder of Medgar Evers: Is it ever too late to do the right thing?
The New Civil Rights History
The Post-World War II Black Freedom Struggle
The Power of the Mass Media: Reconsidering Civil Rights and Antipoverty Movements after World War II
The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project: How a Public History Project Changed the Law, Changed School Curricula, and More
The Southern Civil Rights Movement in History and Memory
The Speculative Archive of Incarceration
The U.S. Civil Rights Movement through Music
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
“The Division: John Doar, the Justice Department and the Civil Rights Movement"
U
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Until There Is Justice: Anna Arnold Hedgeman and America's Freedom Struggles
V
Violence, Violation, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
W
"What Is Good for One Racial Classification Is Not Necessarily Good for Another": The Tension between Desegregation and Bilingual Education as Avenues of Educational Civil Rights Redress
Where Do We Go from Here? King's Dream and the Trump Presidency
White Flight: Segregationist "Rights" and Resistance
Why Brown v. Board of Education Was a Hard Case
Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency
Women and the Civil Rights Movement: A History of Feminism in Black Freedom Struggles
Word Warriors: American Indian Political Activists and the United States
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