New @ the Library: Juneteenth

Contents: Romancing slavery -- Being or becoming the stranger -- The color fetish -- Configurations of blackness -- Narrating the other -- The foreigner's home.

Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "What shall we do with the negro?"

From publisher's summary: "The Stono Rebellion [1739] serves as a touchstone for Calling Out Liberty, an exploration of human rights in early America."

From publisher's summary: "Albion Tourgée battled his entire life for racial justice...fought for equality long after most Americans had abandoned the ideals of Reconstruction. Tourgée's brief [in Plessy v. Ferguson] coined the phrase that justice should be 'color-blind.'"

From the publisher summary: "But most people today know relatively little about King, the campaigner against militarism, materialism, and racism--what he called the 'giant triplets.'...Yanco reminds us that King was a strong critic of militarism who argued that the United States should take the lead in promoting peaceful solutions rather than imposing its will through military might; that growing materialism and an ethos of greed was damaging the moral and spiritual health of the country; and that in a nation where racism continues unabated, white Americans need to educate themselves about racism and its history and take their part in the weighty task of dismantling it."

From publisher's summary: "Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing against segregated rails that led to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896 and the streetcar boycott movement waged in twenty-five southern cities from 1900 to 1907. The book forces a reassessment of the timelines of the black freedom struggle, revealing that a period once dismissed as the age of accommodation should in fact be characterized as part of a history of protest and resistance."

Also available in print: 323.119 KING Stride

Scholars regard the March on Washington Movement (MOWM) as a forerunner of the postwar Civil Rights movement.