Civil Rights category: 2079 books
The Butler's Child
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The Butler's Child is the personal story of a Warner Brothers family grandson who spent more than fifty years as a fighting, no holds barred civil rights lawyer. Lewis M. Steel explores why he, a privileged white man, devoted his life to seeking racial progress in often uncomprehending or hostile...
The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami
Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896-1968
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Offering new insights into Florida's position within the cultural legacy of the South, The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami explores the long fight for civil rights in one of the country's most popular tourist destinations. Chanelle N. Rose examines how the sustained tourism and rapid demographic...
The South's Tolerable Alien
Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945--1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In The South's Tolerable Alien, Andrew S. Moore probes the role of Catholics in the post--World War II South and argues persuasively that, until the 1960s, religion rivaled race as a boundary separating residents of the Bible Belt. Delving deep into underutilized diocesan archives, he explores the...
by Tiyi M. Morris, Bryant Simon, Jane Dailey
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi, Tiyi M. Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi–based women’s organization Womanpower Unlimited. Founded in 1961 by Clarie Collins Harvey, the organization was created initially to provide...
The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South
Civil Rights and Local Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South, Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle...
Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace
Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace, Yasuhiro Katagiri offers the first scholarly work to illuminate an important but largely unstudied aspect of U.S. civil rights history -- the collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship between professional anti-Communists in the North and...
Lighting the Fires of Freedom
African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Recommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle
**Nominated for a 50th NAACP IMAGE Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author.
A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that plumbs the leadership of African American women in the...
Racial Realignment
The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites—such as Lyndon...
Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance
Paradigms of Power and Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
This is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for current debates in international politics.
The contributors examine salient aspects of the secular state whose monopoly...
I Am a Man!
Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what...
Civil Rights and Liberties
Provocative Questions and Evolving Answers
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
For undergraduate courses in Constitutional Law, Civil Rights & Liberties, Introduction to American Government,Introduction to Law and Legal Process, and Judicial Process & Politics. Examining contemporary and perennial constitutional issues in civil liberties and rights, this text engages...
The Crusade for Equality in the Workplace
The Griggs v. Duke Power Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
On March 8, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States decided a case, Griggs v. Duke Power Co., brought by thirteen African American employees who worked as common laborers and janitors at one of Duke Power's facilities. The decision, in plaintiffs' favor, marked a profound and enduring challenge...
At Canaan's Edge
America in the King Years, 1965-68
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement...
Justice for All
Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Civil rights leader and legislator Lloyd A. Barbee frequently signed his correspondence with "Justice for All," a phrase that embodied his life’s work of fighting for equality and fairness. An attorney most remembered for the landmark case that desegregated Milwaukee Public Schools in...