Mary Frances Berry

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Mary Frances Berry

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#817

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#1320

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#354

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Mary Frances Berry

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#1255

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#1597

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#652

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#248

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#269

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#42

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#1533

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#1821

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#690

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According to Wikipedia, Mary Frances Berry is an American historian, writer, lawyer, activist and professor who focuses on U.S. constitutional and legal, African-American history. Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought where she teaches American legal history at the Department of History, School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Previously, Berry was provost of the College of Behavioral and Social Science at University of Maryland, College Park, and was the first African American chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Mary Frances Berry's Published Works

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Long Memory: The Black Experience in America (1984) (99)
Why Era Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution (1986) (51)
The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother (1994) (47)
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2005) (45)
Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America (1971) (36)
The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present (1999) (23)
Power in Words: The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House (2010) (16)
The Social and political implications of the 1984 Jesse Jackson presidential campaign (1990) (16)
The Civil Rights Record: Black Americans and the Law (1972) (16)
Judging Morality: Sexual Behavior and Legal Consequences in the Late Nineteenth-Century South (1991) (15)
The New Literature on Gender and the Welfare State: The U.S. Case (1996) (15)
Twentieth-Century Black Women in Education. (1982) (14)
Negro troops of antebellum Louisiana : a history of the Battalion of Free Men of Color (1968) (13)
Military Necessity and Civil Rights Policy: Black Citizenship and the Constitution, 1861-1868 (1977) (11)
Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year 1783 to 1852 (2009) (11)
The Politics of Parenthood (1993) (10)
Vindicating Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Road to a Color-Blind Society (1996) (10)
Reparations for Freedmen, 1890-1916: Fraudulent Practices or Justice Deferred? (1972) (9)
GREGORIAN CHANT: The restoration of the chant and seventy-five years of recording (1979) (8)
Voting Rights in America: Continuing the Quest for Full Participation (1992) (7)
Status Report on Probe of Election Practices in Florida During The 2000 Presidential Election (2001) (7)
The Concept of Excellence. (1978) (5)
In Search of Callie House and the Origins of the Modern Reparations Movement (2006) (4)
THE ROAD TO A COLOR-BLIND SOCIETY (2016) (4)
Deborah Gray White. Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South. New York: W. W. Norton. 1985. Pp. 216. $18.95 (1986) (4)
Du Bois as Social Activist: Why We Are Not Saved (2000) (4)
How to Teach Controversial Constitutional Issues Facing Women (1988) (4)
From Contraband to Freedman: Federal Policy toward Southern Blacks, 1861–1863. By Louis S. Gerteis. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1973. xii + 255 pp. Table, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $11.50.) (1974) (3)
From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls 1839-1915 (review) (2013) (3)
And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America (2009) (3)
The Teacher and the Rand Study. (1979) (3)
Cantors: A Collection of Gregorian chants (1979) (2)
Relevance to American Needs (1979) (2)
Defeat from the Jaws of Victory (1987) (2)
"Reckless Eyeballing": The Matt Ingram Case and the Denial of African American Sexual Freedom (2008) (2)
Taking the United States to Court: Callie House and the 1915 Cotton Tax Reparations Litigation (2018) (2)
Recipe for Life (2013) (2)
Qualified Praise for Liberal Learning (1983) (2)
History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times (2018) (1)
Slavery, the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers: The Afro-American Vision. (1988) (1)
When Education Was Seen as Proper Reparations for Slavery (2005) (1)
Popular French cookery (1972) (1)
Reviews of Books:"Belonging to the World": Women's Rights and American Constitutional Culture Sandra F. VanBurkleo (2002) (0)
New Directions for the Children of Hurst (2000) (0)
A Selective Annotated Bibliography of African-American Historical and Cultural Studies (2016) (0)
Book Reviews: Blassingame, John W. (Ed.) New Perspectives on Black Studies. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1971. 243 + xx pp. $7.95. (1973) (0)
BREAK and Book Signing by Dr. Mary Frances Berry (2016) (0)
Nell Irvin Painter, Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present (2007) (0)
David Fort Godshalk, Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. 376. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8078-2962-5); $22.50 paper (ISBN 0-8078-5626-6). (2007) (0)
Reparations: Pro and Con. By Alfred L. Brophy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii, 287 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-530408-4.) (2007) (0)
Slave Behavior in Eighteenth-Century Virginia@@@Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. (1973) (0)
The Politics of Thinking About China: 1. Mary Berry on China. 2. Shanker Versus Berry. (1978) (0)
Increasing Women's Influence in Government and Politics: The Inclusion of Women of Color. (1986) (0)
Letter to Governor Bush from Chairperson Mary Frances Berry March 8, 2001 (2001) (0)
The Politics of Thinking About China (1978) (0)
Sandra F. VanBurkleo. “Belonging to the World” Women's Rights and American Constitutional Culture. (Bicentennial Essays on the Bill of Rights.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xix, 409. $24.95 (2002) (0)
Mary Berry: New Coalitions, Partnerships, and Policies to Promote Social Justice (May 3, 1984) (1984) (0)
The new cook (1997) (0)
The Rise of Guardian Democracy: The Supreme Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes, 1845–1969. By Ward E. Y. Elliott. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. xiv + 391 pp. Illustration, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) (1975) (0)
The Republic according to John Marshall Harlan. By Linda Przybyszewski. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 286 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2493-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4789-5.) (2000) (0)
Ronald Reagan and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (2014) (0)
Richard B. Sherman. The Republican Party and Black America from Mc-Kinley to Hoover, 1896-1933. Pp. vii, 274. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1973. $9.50 (1974) (0)
The Pusuit of Excellence: Utilizing Political Resources. (1978) (0)
The Grace of Friendship: Horace Walpole and the Misses Berry (1995) (0)
THE MEASURE OF POVERTY (2007) (0)
The Pursuit of Excellence (2015) (0)
C. Duncan Rice, The Rise and Fall of Black Slavery (1976) (0)
LHR volume 15 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1997) (0)
We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law (review) (2011) (0)
On the Editorship of The Journal of African American History (2017) (0)
Partnerships, Coalitions and Policies for Civil Rights. (1984) (0)
Hamlyn all colour cookbook : over 300 quick and easy recipes all illustrated in full colour (1992) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2009) (0)
Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, Why Do We Keep Trying to Change It? By Richard B. Bernstein and Jerome Agel. (New York: Times, 1993. xx, 392 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8129-2038-4.) (1994) (0)
Diluting the Vote: The Irony of Bush v. Gore (2001) (0)
Mary Berry's Complete Cookbook (1995) (0)
Demanding Democracy: The Continuing Struggle for the Right to Vote (2014) (0)
Mary Berry's Best Desserts (1997) (0)
Prescriptions for the Women's Movement@@@Frances Willard: A Biography.@@@From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, 1910-1928.@@@Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution.@@@Why We Lost the Era. (1987) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2011) (0)
'Belonging to the World' (Book) (2002) (0)
Lincoln and Civil Rights for Blacks (1980) (0)
Paul E. Wilson, A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education , Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1995. Pp. 254. $24.95 (ISBN 0-7006-0709-9). (1998) (0)

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