American Realities with Bill Youngs
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      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
      • Chapter 2: The Minister's Calling
      • Epilogue
      • Appendix: Length of Ministerial Settlement
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    • The Congregationalists >
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    • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life >
      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
        • Eleanor Roosevelt South Pacific
      • A Victorian Family
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      • Volume One >
        • The Native Americans
        • The English Background
        • The British American
        • Reform in Colonial America
        • Divided Loyalties
        • The American Revolution
        • Testing the Constitution
        • Republican Nationalism
        • The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
        • Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
        • Texas Revolution
        • Reform in the Early Republic
        • Manifest Destiny
        • A Slave's Story
        • The Civil War >
          • Two Soldiers
      • Volume Two >
        • The “Taming” of the West
        • Beyond Emancipation
        • The New Industrial Era
        • The Birth of Environmentalism
        • New Immigrants
        • Expanding American Democracy
        • World War I
        • Modernity versus Tradition
        • The New Deal
        • Total War
        • The Cold War
        • The Civil Rights Movement
        • Turmoil on the Campuses
        • The New Computer Age
        • America, the Cold War, and Beyond
      • Additional Essays >
        • Norsemen in the New World
    • The Fair and the Falls >
      • Part I: Possessing the Falls >
        • Chapter One: James Glover: Purchasing the Falls
        • Chapter Two: Waiting for the Indians
        • Chapter Three: Harnessing the Falls
        • Chapter Four: "The World's Fair of the Northwest"
        • Chapter Five: The City Beside the Falls
      • Part II: Rediscovering the Falls >
        • Chapter Six: The Twilight of Old Spokane
        • Chapter Seven: Urban Blight and Urban Renewal
        • Chapter Eight: King Cole and The Heart of a City
        • Chapter Nine: Visualizing a World's Fair
      • Part III Redesigning the Falls >
        • Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris >
          • Tom Foley's Turn
        • Chapter Eleven: Wooing the Foreign Exhibitors
        • Chapter Twelve: Wooing the Domestic Exhibitors
        • Chapter Thirteen: The Environmental Debate
        • Chapter Fourteen: Building the Fair
        • Chapter Fifteen: Marketing, Money, and Management
      • Part IV: The Fair by the Falls >
        • Chapter Sixteen: Opening Day
        • Chapter Seventeen: A Mingling of Peoples
        • Chapter Eighteen: Days at the Fair
        • Chapter Nineteen: The Press of New Ideas
        • Chapter Twenty: The Final Tally
      • Part V: An American Environment >
        • Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
      • The Fair and the Falls Map
Bibliography

BASS, JACK. Unlikely Heroes (1991). Account of the role of federal judges in implementing desegregation in the South.

BASS, JONATHAN S. Blessed Are the Peacemakers (2001). Study of King’s writing of the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and of the eight white clergymen toward whom it was directed.

BRANCH, TAYLOR. Parting the Waters (1988). A history of America during the King years, 1954–1963. His Pillar of Fire(1998) takes the story to 1965; and At Canaan’s Edge (2006) continues to 1968.

BRAUER, CARL M. John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction (1977). Kennedy’s role in the civil rights movement.

CARSON, CLAYBORNE. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (1981). History of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

ESKEW, GLENN T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle (1997). A study of the local and national forces at work in Birmingham—both in defending and attacking segregation.

KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. Stride Toward Freedom (1958). King’s account of the Montgomery bus boycott.

———. Why We Can’t Wait (1963). King’s account of Birmingham with his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

LANDSBERG, BRIAN K. Enforcing Civil Rights: Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice (1997). Account of the activities of the Civil Rights Division by a former attorney for the Department of Justice.

MALCOLM X. Autobiography (1966). Life story of the foremost black nationalist of his time.

NUNNELLEY, WILLIAM A. Bull Connor (1991). Biography of the police commissioner who opposed King at Birmingham.

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