Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Voices in Our Blood
America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
**A literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present—including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis **
Editor Jon Meacham has chosen...
Breaking White Supremacy
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This magisterial follow-up to The New Abolition, a Grawemeyer Award winner, tells the crucial second chapter in the black social gospel’s history.
The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with...
The Soul of America
The Battle for Our Better Angels
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian...
Arc of Justice
A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing...
by Robert F. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense against the...
The Devil Is Here in These Hills
West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
“The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan
On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On...
Unfinished Agenda
Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Unfinished Agenda offers an inside look at the Black Power Movement that emerged during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. A political memoir that teaches grass-roots politics and inspires organizing for real change in the Age of Obama, this book will appeal to readers of black history, Occupy...
Enough
The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Half a century after brave Americans took to the streets to raise the bar of opportunity for all races, Juan Williams writes that too many black Americans are in crisis—caught in a twisted hip-hop culture, dropping out of school, ending up in jail, having babies when they are not ready to be parents,...
Hazel Scott
The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
"Hazel Scott was an important figure in the later part of the Black renaissance onward. Even in an era where there was limited mainstream recognition of Black Stars, Hazel Scott's talent stood out and she is still fondly remembered by a large segment of the community. I am pleased to see her...
Color Blind Justice : Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2006
Civil War officer Reconstruction "carpetbagger" best-selling novelist and relentless champion of equal rights--Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice. Now in this engaging biography Mark Elliott offers an insightful portrait of a fearless lawyer jurist and writer who fought...
Freedom in the Family
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships,...
by Harvard Sitkoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans....
The Aware Saga
Civil Society and Public Morality in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
In March 2009, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was briefly taken over by a Christian faction. Their coup was overturned within a matter of weeks, but the episode highlighted a variety of issues, including the role of religion in civil society, sex education, homosexuality,...
On the Laps of Gods
The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
They shot them down like rabbits . . .
September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. During the previous three months, racial fighting had erupted in twenty-five cities. And deep in the Arkansas Delta, black sharecroppers were meeting in a humble wooden church,...