Sarah Keys refused to give up her seat on a state-to-state charter bus, prompting the landmark court case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.

Schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings Graham successfully challenged racist streetcar policies in New York City.

Before the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Freedom Rides, Black women passengers founded bus protest and made the right to a bus seat a symbol of the right to...

A revelatory and immersive biography of Lillian Smith, a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to e...

Over a year later, they are struggling to find financial footing and make sense of the racist backlash that displaced them.

The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work

Welcome to the UNC Press Fall/Winter 2025 Seasonal Catalog. Here you’ll find a listing of our new books scheduled to be published between August 2025 and

The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in December 2024.