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Focuses on the experience of African Americans during World War II on the homefront and in the armed forces. States that African Americans not only fought fascism overseas but also apartheid in the United States, also known as the "Double V." (CMK)

Ford R. Bryan. Rouge: Pictured in Its Prime, Covering the Years 1917-1940. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. Pp. 285. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $34.95. In 1913 Henry Ford began to [...]

'Black Thursday Remembered: Race, Politics, and Campus Unrest in Northeast Wisconsin during the Late 1960s' is an exhibition that features civil rights activism at Wisconsin State University campus in Oshkosh in the 1960s. The activism pertains to the 94 black WSU students, who created the Black Student Union in response to the discrimination against black students.

Once upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age. By Herbert Mitgang. (New York: The Free Press, 2000. Pp. [...]

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965. By Taylor Branch. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. Pp. xiv, 746. $30.00.) In 1988, Taylor Branch published Parting the Waters: [...]

The Roosevelt Women. By Betty Boyd Caroli. (New York: Basic Books, 1998. Pp. rd, 512. $30.00.) The author of this study has done yeoman work by researching and publishing The [...]

Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court. By Jeff Shesol. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. Pp. x, 644. $27.95.) This study joins an already crowded [...]

Edmund F. Wehrle. Between a Raver and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. 320. Bibliography. Drawing. Index. Notes. Photographs. Paper, [...]

FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address. By Davis W. Houck. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002, Pp. xii, 166. $29.95. In the spring of 1933, [...]

The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election. By Hugh E. Evans. (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Pp. xvii, 202. $29.95.) The author of this study, a professor [...]

Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Edited by Bernard Grofman. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Pp. xiii, 320. $55.00.) In 1994, Bernard Grofman organized a conference commemorating the [...]