With more than 240 primary sources, this introduction to a complex topic is a resource for student research.
McWilliams, Carey. Prejudice: Japanese-Americans: Symbol of Racial Intolerance. Boston: Little, Brown, 1944. (California's antiJapanese movement and the World War II relocation centers.) Martin, Ralph G. Boy from Nebraska: The Story of ...
The Black American A Documentary History Glen P. Watkins, Author The purpose of this work is to present an overall view of the black race in American culture from slavery until 1992.
In this 2stunning collection of documents3 (Washington Post Book World), African-American women speak of themselves, their lives, ambitions, and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are...
The story of blacks at Harvard is thus inspiring but painful, instructive but ambiguous—a paradoxical episode in the most vexing controversy of American life: the "race question.
This collection of manifestos, Supreme Court decisions, congressional testimonies, speeches, articles, book excerpts, pastoral letters, interviews, song lyrics, memoirs, and poems reflects the vitality, diversity, and changing nature of ...
This is a resource on racism and segregation in American life.
Race in America: A Documentary History (Preliminary Edition)
Drawing from a broad range of articles, speeches, short stories, pamphlets, sermons, debates, laws, public statements, Supreme Court decisions and conventions, this documentary history demonstrates the persistence of a humanist,...
Handlin, as cited in Peter Binzen, Whitetown, U.S.A. (New York, 1970), 47, 44–46; Jenks, Lauck, and Smith, Immigration Problem, 358–359; David B. Tyack, The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education (Cambridge, Mass., ...
Here in a single volume are the documents, speeches, and letters that have forged American history, accompanied by interpretations of their significance by noted historian and broadcaster Richard D. Heffner.