Civil Rights category: 2079 books

Cover of Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right: Rebuilding a Middle-Class Democracy by Enhancing Worker Voice
by Richard D. Kahlenberg, Moshe Z. Marvit
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012

American society has grown dramatically more unequal over the past quarter century. The economic gains of American workers after World War II have slowly been eroded—in part because organized labor has gone from encompassing one-third of the private sector workers to less than one-tenth. One reason...
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Winning While Losing

Civil Rights, The Conservative Movement and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama

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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017

"Explor[es] the paradoxical nature of racial politics in the post–civil rights period. . . . Does us the service of detailing how different presidential administrations handled civil rights, complicating our understanding of the major themes that defined the era."--American Historical...
Cover of Yale Law Journal: Symposium - The Meaning of the Civil Rights Revolution (Volume 123, Number 8 - June 2014)
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014

"Symposium: The Meaning of the Civil Rights Revolution" is, in effect, a new and extensive book of contemporary thought on civil rights. In February 2014, the Yale Law Journal held a symposium at Yale Law School marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the simultaneous...
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Race, Labor, and Civil Rights

Griggs versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity

by Robert Samuel Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

In 1966, thirteen black employees of the Duke Power Company's Dan River Plant in Draper, North Carolina, filed a lawsuit against the company challenging its requirement of a high school diploma or a passing grade on an intelligence test for internal transfer or promotion. In the groundbreaking decision...
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Waking from the Dream

The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by David L. Chappell
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

The author of A Stone of Hope, called “one of the three or four most important books on the civil rights movement” by The Atlantic Monthly, turns his attention to the years after Martin Luther King’s assassination—and provides a sweeping history of the struggle to keep the civil rights movement...
Cover of A History of Civil Rights Through Legislation: Constitutional Amendments, Laws, Supreme Court Decisions & Key Foreign Policy Acts

A History of Civil Rights Through Legislation: Constitutional Amendments, Laws, Supreme Court Decisions & Key Foreign Policy Acts

Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Complete Amendments, The Federalist Papers, Gettysburg Address, Voting Rights Act, Social Security Act, Loving v. Virginia and more

by U.S. Government, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Congress
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017

This collection incorporates the crucial democratic principles on which our identity as Americans is based. From the Declaration of Independence to the Civil Rights Act of 1968, this edition contains 40 most important decisions and acts that shaped the legal system and democracy of the USA. Table...
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by Phillip J. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016

Promises of justice and equality made in the U.S. Constitution, numerous Amendments, and decisions of the Supreme Court are hallmarks of American civil rights. Yet the realities of inequality remain facts of modern life for too many Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans, even though...
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Rights Gone Wrong

How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality

by Richard Thompson Ford
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt discrimina­tion and prejudice. But how successful are they at combating the whole spectrum of social injustice-including conditions that aren't...
Cover of Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973
by Christopher P. Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014

Focusing on four major civil rights groups, Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 documents how factions within the movement and sabotage from the federal government led to the gradual splintering of the Civil Rights Movement. Well-known historian...
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Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers

Reflections from the Deep South, 1964–1980

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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

“Fascinating. . . . The kind of book you can open anywhere, maybe thumb back or forth a few pages, and settle into a good story.”—USA Today "One of the great, largely unknown stories of American history. This volume is a wonderfully evocative demonstration of something often discounted--how...
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Delaying the Dream

Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938-1965

by Keith M. Finley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasize the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations...
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by Sidney Fine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic...
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In Search of the Movement

The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now

by Benjamin Hedin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015

"Benjamin Hedin went looking for the civil rights movement's past, but he also ran smack into the present, which can suddenly look like the past and then just as suddenly look totally different. By bringing stirring people like Septima Clark into focus, Hedin does what good historians do, but...
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Our Minds on Freedom

Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967

by Shannon Frystak
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

Traditionally, literature on the civil rights movement has highlighted the leadership of ministerial men and young black revolutionaries like the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and Malcolm X. Though recent studies have begun to explore female participation in the struggle for...
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