Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Human Rights in Northern Ireland
The Committee on the Administration of Justice Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This Handbook is the latest version of a book that was last published in 2003, and has been completely revised to take account of the innumerable legal developments since then. The book contains 26 chapters on topics ranging across the full spectrum of civil, political, social, economic and environmental...
The Two Faces of America
Denouncing Civil and Human Rights Violations Abroad While Violating Civil and Human Rights Here at Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Leonard C. Garrett Sr. was born May 17, 1930 to parents sharecropping a 40 acres slave plot given his mothers parents when they were freed from slavery. Forced from the farm by the Ku Klux Klan, his parents fled to Tampa, Florida. An avid reader, He learned that outside the southern states, for those...
Reforming Jim Crow
Southern Politics and State in the Age Before Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Historians of the Civil Rights era typically treat the key events of the 1950s Brown v. Board of Education, sit-ins, bus boycotts, and marches--as a revolutionary social upheaval that upended a rigid caste system. While the 1950s was a watershed era in Southern and civil rights history, the tendency...
The Art of Protest
Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
The Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction...
Injustice in Person
The Right to Self-Representation
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
In common law jurisdictions, litigants are free to choose whether to procure legal representation or litigate in person. There is no formal requirement that civil litigants obtain legal representation, and the court has no power to impose it on them, regardless of whether the litigant has the financial...
Human Rights and Public Finance
Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. Its central theme is the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and social rights. While much academic and political...
No Small Thing
The 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The Mississippi Freedom Vote in 1963 consisted of an integrated citizens' campaign for civil rights. With candidates Aaron Henry, a black pharmacist from Clarksdale for governor, and Reverend Ed King, a college chaplain from Vicksburg for lieutenant governor, the Freedom Vote ran a platform aimed...
by Marc Perrusquia
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
**Only Ernest Withers, a key figure in the civil rights movement, could have delivered such iconic photographs—and the kind of information the FBI wanted . . . **
Renowned photographer Ernest Withers captured some of the most stunning moments of the civil rights era—from the age-defining...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC.
SHORT STORY #26. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The 1964 was a historic year for American women and minority. The Civil Right Act of 1964 was created in the USA. It was the 1st time in American history when women and minority were given an equal opportunity to enter colleges, and workplaces. To enforce the Civil Right Act of 1964—Equal Employment...
Protest at Selma
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the Cross
Vivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow’s account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma,...
The Lines that Divide America
Race, Protests, and Police
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
White police officers killing black men, protesters taking over college campuses, streets, and cities claiming injustice and demanding change. It seems unreal that officers are behaving the way the headlines allege, the events make us feel like the civil rights era has returned with social media and...
Why Marriage Matters
America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Why Marriage Matters offers a compelling and clear discussion of a question at the forefront of our national consciousness. It is the work of a brilliant civil rights litigator who has dedicated his life to the protection of individuals' rights and our Constitution's commitment to equal justice under...
by Kirby Goidel, Craig Malcolm Freeman, Brian Smentkowski Governmenssistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Interestingly, most Americans today—even professional political commentators—misinterpret or misunderstand what the Bill of Rights' intended meaning and purposes were. Culturally ingrained myths about the Bill of Rights have helped to define what it means to be an "American" but also limited the...
Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials
The First Modern Civil Rights Convictions
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In 1965 the drive for black voting rights in the south culminated in the epic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. After brutal state police beatings stunned the nation on “Bloody Sunday,” troops under federal court order lined the route as the march finally made its way to the State Capitol and...