Winner of the 2014 Lillian Smith Book Award Once in a great while, a photograph captures the essence of an era: Three people—one black and two white—demonst

Tells the story of a group of African-American lawyers and plaintiffs and their white allies who were determined to break down racial barriers at the University

Describes the efforts to secure a better working environment for women in the garment industry of early twentieth-century New York, leading to the formation of

In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with

As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization. Their city was about to undertake the la