New additions to the collections of the Government and Heritage Library:
Courage in the Moment: The Civil Rights Struggle, 1961-1964, by Jim Wallace and Paul Dickson. With 100 historic photographs, both images and text in this book vividly describe the American civil rights movement. The photographs represent the work of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student journalist Jim Wallace from 1961-1964. Scenes depict marches, peaceful sit-ins, protests, and confrontations that occurred in North Carolina along with visual history of the 1963 March on Washington.
Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980, by Devin Fergus. With a focus on North Carolina, the author reveals the interplay between liberalism and black nationalism during the era of Johnson, Nixon, Carter and Helms and the impact of the Black Power movement.
War! What Is It Good For? Black Freedom Struggles & the U.S. Military, From World War II to Iraq, by Kimberley Phillips. From an array of sources – newspapers, government documents, literature, music and film – the author brings to light how black participation in the nation’s wars after Truman’s 1948 military desegregation order, and the struggle for equal citizenship, galvanized an antiwar movement that reshaped African American struggle for equality.
Library materials will be available for check out at the Government and Heritage Library by North Carolina State Agency employees or may be borrowed through an interlibrary loan request at your local public library. To view other new library acquisitions, click here.
