Civil Rights category: 2079 books
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.
The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents...
Deep South Dispatch
Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of entrenched...
Voices of Freedom
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
In this monumental volume, Henry Hampton, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize, and Steve Fayer, series writer, draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary...
by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
**Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 **
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response...
by Michael J. Klarman
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005. Now, in this marvelously abridged, paperback edition, Michael J. Klarman has compressed his acclaimed...
Let the People Decide
Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate racial communities over four decades.
Sunflower...
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that created modern America, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passage
It was a turbulent time in America—a time of sit-ins, freedom rides, a March on Washington and a governor...
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. Just for self-defense,” King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as an arsenal.” Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced...
by Mary Frances Berry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.
Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An...
Murder in Mississippi
United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney—idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like...
by Sam Cacas
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Far too often, the traditional Black-white paradigms of race relations in America have ignored the contributions of Asian Pacific Americans to the U.S. civil rights movement. Academic classes that cover civil rights at all levels of American education have left out seminal cases such as the first...
Courage to Dissent
Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
In this Bancroft Prize-winning history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that long before "black power" emerged and gave black dissent from the mainstream civil rights agenda a name, African Americans in Atlanta questioned...
by Roy L. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
With the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage. Have black Americans finally achieved racial justice? Is government intervention no longer required? Racial Justice in the Age of Obama considers contemporary...
This Is Not Civil Rights
Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century problems, that tradition continues, with Americans...