This text began as three lectures given at the University of Missouri-Columbia in April 1992, coinciding with the Los Angeles riots. It studies the role of race in both Republican…

John Hope Franklin, one of the US’s foremost historians, collects twenty-seven of his most influential shorter writings. The essays are presented thematically and include pieces on southern history; significant but…

Thirty years after the publication of John Hope Franklin’s influential interpretative essay Reconstruction, ten distinguished scholars have contributed to a new appraisal of Reconstruction scholarship. Recognising Professor Franklin’s major contributions…

First published in 1982, this work covers the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The riot - possibly the worst incidence of racial violence in American history and hushed up for…

Gives instructions on how to teach by recounting some of the author’s personal experiences.

Craig Joel tells how a civil servant came to usurp the GovernorAzAzAzs authority in his desire to curry favour with British ministers, and in the process profoundly affected in political…

Seay’s memoir takes a different tack from most civil rights legal autobiographies: in a series of compact, powerful vignettes, he reveals dramatic courtroom moments; the complex personalities of segregation’s victims…

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