The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African Ameri
The story of the civil rights movement typically begins with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and culminates with the 1965 voting rights struggle in Selma. Bu
How military service led black veterans to join the civil rights struggle Fighting for Democracy shows how the experiences of African American soldiers during W
"The story of the modern civil rights movement typically begins in the South with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. But as Martha Biondi shows, a grassroots s
This collection is a timely reconsideration of the intersection between two of the dominant events of twentieth-century American history, the upheaval wrought b