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Books by Walter White
The Fire in the Flint (novel,1924)
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Flight
(novel,1926) /
Rope
and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (1929)
How far the Promised Land?
955) /
A
Man Called White (autobiography,1948).
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Books on
Lynching & Racial Violence
The Chronological
History of the Negro in America (1969) /
Strain of
Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism (1975)
But There Was
No Peace: The
Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction
(1984) /
Lynch Law
( 1905) /
An American Dilemma
(1944)
The Crucible of Race:
Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation
(1984) /
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
(1989)
Rope and Faggot
( 1929) /
The Tragedy of
Lynching (1933) /
Race Riot in East St,
Louis (1964) /
Urban Racial Violence
(1976)
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Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
(1968) /
Violence
in America (1969) *
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White:
The Biography
of Walter White, Mr. NAACP
By Kenneth Janken
Reviews
Almost forgotten today, Walter
White was the civil rights virtuoso of the mid-20th century
whose literary salesmanship helped launch the Harlem Renaissance
and whose organizational leadership made possible Brown v. Board
of Education. This superbly researched, consistently perceptive,
and long-overdue life and time of a voluntary Negro closes an
inexplicable gap between W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King,
Jr.
--David Levering Lewis, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1994 and 2001 for W.E.B. Du
Bois: Biography of a Race, 1968-1919 and W.E.B. Du Bois:
The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963.
Janken restores Walter White to
his proper place as one of the most important figures of the
twentieth century.
--Glenda Gilmore, Peter V. and C. Vann
Woodward Professor of History, Yale University, and author of Gender
and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North
Carolina, 1896-1920.
Walter White's explosive energy
pulses through the pages of this superb biography. White
provides a compelling portrait of an exceedingly complex figure
and offers keen insight into a formative period in the struggle
for racial justice in America.
--Patricia Sullivan, author of days of Hope:
Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era and fellow, the W.E.B.
Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
In this important book about a
largely overlooked, yet pivotal figure, Janken has made one of
the most significant contributions to the field of American
history in years.
--Paula J. Giddings, author of When and
Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in
America
Janken's spellbinding examination
of White's Extraordinary life . . . reminds us that race in
America has never been as simple as black and white. By
challenging the black-white paradigm, this richly detailed
narrative is especially relevant to today's multiracial America.
--Helen Zia, author of Asian American
Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
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Bill
Moyers Interviews Douglass A. Blackmon
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06202008/watch2.html
Douglas A. Blackmon,
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the
Civil War to World War II (2008)
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update 2 July
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