Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


robert korstad

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert korstad
Skip side bar filters
  • Remembering Jim Crow

    African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

    This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Right These Wrongs

    The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America

    When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the “tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt.” Illustrated with evocative photographs by Billy Barnes, To Right These Wrongs offers a lively account of this pioneering effort in America’s War on Poverty.Robert Korstad and James ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Civil Rights Unionism

    Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

    Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Fragile Democracy

    The Struggle over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina

    Unabridged

    5 hours 23 min

    America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circumstances. Conservatives speak in ominous tones of voter fraud so widespread that it threatens public trust in elected government. Progressives counter that fraud is rare and that calls for reforms such as voter ID are part of a campaign to shrink the ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fragile Democracy

    The Struggle over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina

    America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circumstances. Conservatives speak in ominous tones of voter fraud so widespread that it threatens public trust in elected government. Progressives counter that fraud is rare and that calls for reforms such as voter ID are part of a campaign to shrink the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Like a Family

    The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

    Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality (LOA #303)

    Edited by Brooks D. Simpson ...
    The aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing from the Reconstruction era—featuring pieces by Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, and more“Very, very good. . . . Reconstruction conveys the struggle for racial equality better than many other anthologies documenting the era.” —The Wall Street JournalFew periods in American history are more ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • My Vanishing Country

    A Memoir

    New York Times Bestseller: This insightful and deeply personal portrait of African American working-class life "offers something so authentic . . . compelling" ( Charleston Post and Courier).Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future.Anchored in Bakari Sellers' hometown of Denmark, South Carolina, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill's Hellraisers

    The Thrilling Secret WW2 Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress

    by Damien Lewis ...
    From award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis, the untold story of the heroic hellraisers who stormed a Nazi fortress—in one of the most daring raids of World War II . . .Winter, 1944. Allied forces have liberated most of Axis-occupied Italy—with one crucial exception: the Nazi headquarters north of the Gothic Line. Heavily guarded and surrounded by rugged terrain, the mountain fortress is nearly ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Darkest Year

    The American Homefront, 1941–1942

    The acclaimed narrative history of the American home front during WWII, from the attack on Pearl Harbor through 1942.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to disguise the magnitude of American losses, it was clear that the nation had suffered a nearly unbroken string ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Beginning Or the End

    How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    by Greg Mitchell ...
    The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production.Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called “the most important story” he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bending Toward Justice

    The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights

    The senator relates the decades-long fight for justice after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing—including his prosecution of the last living bombers.On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant ... Read more

    $12.99 USD