Civil rights

Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning

Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion

African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas

Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle

Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South

Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South

Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television

Civil Rights Childhood

Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South

The Civil Rights Movement in America

The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture

The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936

Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas

Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels

Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust

The Fruits of Integration: Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990

The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980

A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000

Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist

The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America

Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States

Justice Older than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta

Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture

Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers

Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi

Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis

Mississippi Liberal: A Biography of Frank E. Smith

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights

Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism

No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey through the American South

Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964

The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement

Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field

Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 Third Edition

Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990, Revised Second Edition

Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch

Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890-1901

The Rise of David Duke

The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC

The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South

Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Three Lives for Mississippi

A Time to Speak: Speeches by Jack Reed

Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War

Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

Why I Left America and Other Essays

Witness to Injustice

Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965

The World of Richard Wright

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UPM Fall BOOKFRIENDS Party Announced

On Sunday, November 22 from 3–5 p.m. the University Press of Mississippi will be holding its annual BOOKFRIENDS fall membership party at The Auditorium Restaurant at the Duling School. This year’s party will honor the memory of Willie Morris on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. To mark the occasion UPM is featuring a new, limited edition of the quintessential Morris essay, My Two

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