An exploration of the case of Brown v. Board of Education, involving civil rights giants, Thurgood Marshall and the leaders of the NAACP, who fought for an end to all segregation in education. It discusses the internal working of the High Court and the nature of constitutional interpretation. -- Amazon.com.

Contains twelve essays that examine how white liberal southern politicians who came to prominence in the New Deal and World War II handled the race issue when it became central to politics in the 1950s and 1960s. This book states that it was the southern business leaders and New South politicians who mediated the transition to desegregation.

Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Betty Chiles Nixon, conducted 19 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Library Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the one hour interview, Nixon discusses such topics as her childhood; her father, John Chiles, and his Cross Keys Restaurant; the decline of business in downtown Nashville;...

"October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. Photojournalist Bryan Shih, who has been interviewing and taking portraits of the surviving Panthers around the country for years, has partnered with Yohuru Williams, dean and history professor at Fairfield University, to deliver the definitive celebration of the Black Panthers. Part oral history, part scrapbook, this is a beautifully produced book of forty-five...