Books written by Adam Fairclough
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A Class of Their Own: Black teachers in the segregated South
It boasted the first, and for many years the only, brick schoolhouse in Wilcox County.45 A third Washington disciple, Charles P. Adams, had the misfortune to run afoul of black Baptists while lacking a strong white patron such as S. G. ...
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To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr
The increases in the other five counties were also impressive : 295 to 4,257 in Marengo , 320 to 6,789 in Dallas , 289 to 2,466 in Perry , 0 to 1,496 in Lowndes , and o to 6,085 in Wilcox.32 But elsewhere in Alabama and the South the ...
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A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South
This magisterial narrative offers a bold new vision of black teachers, built from the stories of real men and women, from teachers in one-room shacks to professors in red brick universities.
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Martin Luther King, Jr
Chronicles the life and work of the civil rights leader, discussing his philosophies and politics, his response to Black power, and his concern for the poor, both Black and white In this concise and readable biography, Adam Fairclough ...
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Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972
235 ; William Ivy Hair , Carnival of Fury : Robert Charles and the New Orleans Riot of 1900 ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University ... 7 , 39-46 ; Herbert R. Northrup , " The New Orleans Longshoremen , " Political Science Quarterly ...
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Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
PREFACE 1John W. Cell, The Highest Stage of White Supremacy: The Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the ... 11 H. Leon Prather, Resurgent Politics and Educational Progressivism in the New South: North Carolina, 1890-1913 ...
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Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
From the end of postwar Reconstruction in the South to an analysis of the rise and fall of Black Power, acclaimed historian Adam Fairclough presents a straightforward synthesis of the century-long struggle of black Americans to achieve ...
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Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow
In Teaching Equality, Adam Fairclough provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States.
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The Makers Of the 20th Century: Martin Luther King
Part of a series of biographies of statesmen and women who have shaped the modern world, this book concerns Martin Luther King, who from both the pulpit and from jail, inspired black Americans to defy white supremacy and in so doing, re ...