Nancy Elaine Weiss

Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Whitney M. Young, Jr., the charismatic executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, bridged the worlds of race and power. The "inside man" of the black revolution, he served as interpreter between black America and the businessmen, foundation executives, and public officials w...

How to Make MeCards4Kids: Creative Expression for Children and the Grownups in Their Lives

This book won the 2014 Nautilus Silver Medal Book Award in the Parenting/Family category. The children in this book, aged 4-9, who made these cards in a Los Angeles school, named them MeCards and wanted to show other kids how to make them. So in this book you'll find out how to make MeCards, a child...

Farewell to the Party of Lincoln

This book examines a remarkable political phenomenon--the dramatic shift of black voters from the Republican to the Democratic party in the 1930s, a shift all the more striking in light of the Democrats' indifference to racial concerns. Nancy J. Weiss shows that blacks became Democrats in response ...

The National Urban League, 1910 - 1940

The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology)

This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture. Provides an invaluable reference resource to all interested in the cultural structures and processes that animate contemporary life Contai...

Shoofly, Vol. 4, No. 4: An Audiomagazine for Children

Shoofly is dedicated to the celebration of contemporary children's poetry, storytelling, and literature, and strives to introduce curious young minds to the wonder and magic of poetry and language - we also try to have a lot of fun!

Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR

Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR