Liberty Legacy Foundation Award

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2018     The promise of patriarchy : women and the Nation of Islam by Ula Yvette Taylor
2017     We are an African people : independent education, black power, and the radical imagination by Russell Rickford
2016     Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soul by Tanisha C. Ford
2015     A world more concrete : real estate and the remaking of Jim Crow South Florida by N. D. B. Connolly
2014     Defining the struggle : national organizing for racial justice, 1880–1915 by Susan D. Carle
2013     The land was ours : African American beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South by Andrew W. Kahrl
2012     Courage to dissent : Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
2011     Torchbearers of democracy : African American soldiers in the World War I era by Chad L. Williams
2010     Family properties : race, real estate, and the exploitation of Black urban America by Beryl Satter
2009     The senator and the sharecropper : the freedom struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer by Chris Myers Asch
2008     Going down Jericho Road : the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign by Michael Honey; 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 (finalist)
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; A little taste of freedom : the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi by Emilye Crosby (honorable mention)
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