Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Race and Liberty in America
The Essential Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The history of civil rights in the United States is usually analyzed and interpreted through the lenses of modern conservatism and progressive liberalism. In Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader, author Jonathan Bean argues that the historical record does not conveniently fit into either...
Walk in My Shoes
Conversations between a Civil Rights Legend and his Godson on the Journey Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A top aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young has been a witness to history and has made his own. During the cvil rights movement, he worked tirelessly as a strategist and negotiator during the campaigns that resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, and was at Martin...
Freedom in the World 2011
The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 194 countries and 14 territories are used by policymakers,...
A More Noble Cause
A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana's courts. A More Noble Cause presents both the powerful story of one man's lifelong battle for racial justice and...
Blackballed
The Black Vote and US Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Blackballedis Darryl Pinckney’s meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through...
Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal
A Sociology of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation. Engaging debate about how ‘cosmopolitan’ principles...
by Samuel Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
“Polygamy, Bigamy and Human Rights Law” focusses mainly on UK law, but has been cited in international research on polygamy, and referred to in the British Columbia Supreme Court in the 2010-11 Polygamy Reference Case in Canada, where the book was entered into evidence as an exhibit and relied...
The Dream Is Lost
Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Once the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history. By the early 1960s, the city served as an important center for integrated politics, as African...
Bearing the Cross
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
In this monumental account of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., professor and historian David Garrow traces King’s evolution from young pastor who spearheaded the 1955–56 bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama,...
Rights at Risk
The Limits of Liberty in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms.
With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution...
Unfinished Business
Racial Equality in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Michael J. Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History, is one of the leading authorities on the history of civil rights law in the United States. In Unfinished Business, he illuminates the course of racial equality in America, revealing...
Human Rights in Our Own Backyard
Injustice and Resistance in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Most Americans assume that the United States provides a gold standard for human rights—a 2007 survey found that 80 percent of U.S. adults believed that "the U.S. does a better job than most countries when it comes to protecting human rights." As well, discussions among scholars and public...
Howard Zinn's Southern Diary
Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
In the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across Atlanta, leading to the arrest of some for participating in sit-ins in the local community. A young Howard Zinn (future author of the worldwide best seller...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
In the early years of America, there were a lot of situations that are frowned upon in today’s societies. There were divisions in classes and unjust decisions that caused significant retaliation from victims. Read this ebook to learn about the civil rights moments - what they were and why they happened. Learn from reading.