Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement
1944-1968
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Since Reconstruction, African Americans have served as key protagonists in the rich and expansive narrative of American social protest. Their collective efforts challenged and redefined the meaning of freedom as a social contract in America. During the first half of the 20th century, a progressive...
by John C Domino
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This up-to-date analysis of the Supreme Court's landmark rulings on civil rights and liberties is a discussion of the facts, legal issues, and constitutional questions surrounding those rulings. Domino's text serves as either a core text in courses on civil liberties and civil rights, or as a supplementary...
by Brent Waterbury
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This book is about our civil rights, gun violence, courts and the 2nd Amendment. As many realize, gun violence in America is off the charts compared to other industrialized nations. Over 70,000+ Americans a year are a victims of gun violence either through death or injury. This ebook argues that gun...
Bending Toward Justice
The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer...
We Do!
American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
“The encouraging story of American acceptance of gay marriage and the roles that politicians—gay and straight—have played in that history” (The Philadelphia Tribune).
Through speeches, interviews, and commentary, this book chronicles the road toward marriage equality in the United States,...
by Virginia Mantouvalou, Professor Conor Gearty
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
'Debating Law' is a new series that gives scholarly experts the opportunity to offer contrasting perspectives on significant topics of contemporary, general interest.
In this second volume of the series, Conor Gearty argues that for rights to work effectively in the wider promotion of social...
by David Herbert Donald
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
A Pulitzer Prize winner's “magisterial” biography of the Civil War–era Massachusetts senator, a Radical Republican who fought for slavery’s abolition (The New York Times).
In his follow-up to Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, acclaimed historian David Herbert Donald examines...
Democracy Reborn
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A riveting narrative of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, an act which revolutionized the U.S. constitution and shaped the nation's destiny in the wake of the Civil War
Though the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation inspired optimism for a new, happier reality...
Groundwork
Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
"A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the Foreword
Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American...
Loren Miller
Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood Marshall, Miller argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decisions...
The Freedom Schools
Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates,...
by David Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Progressive Racism is about the transformation of the civil rights movement from a cause opposing racism-the denigration of individuals on the basis of their skin color - into a movement endorsing race preferences and privileges for select groups based on their skin color. It describes the tragic...
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights
The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In a highly provocative...
Raymond Pace Alexander
A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Raymond Pace Alexander (1897-1974) was a prominent black attorney in Philadelphia and a distinguished member of the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest association of African American lawyers and judges. A contemporary of such nationally known black attorneys as Charles Hamilton Houston,...