Liberty Legacy Foundation Award

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2008     Going down Jericho Road : the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign by Michael Honey
            Finalist:  New Orleans after the promises : poverty, citizenship and the search for a Great Society by Kent Germany
            Finalist:  Battling the plantation mentality : Memphis and the Black freedom struggle by Laurie Green
2007     From civil rights to human rights : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the struggle for economic justice by Thomas F. Jackson
2006     Up South : civil rights and Black power in Philadelphia by Matthew J. Countryman
            Honorable mention: A little taste of freedom : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi by Emilye Crosby
2005     Black is a country : race and the unfinished struggle for democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh
2004     Civil rights unionism : tobacco workers and the struggle for democracy in the mid-twentieth century South by Robert Rodgers Korstad
            Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement : a radical democratic vision by Barbara Ransby
2003     Dividing lines : municipal politics and the struggle for civil rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma by J. Mills Thornton III