Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
There is a huge difference between the world then and today. Learn what makes the difference and who was responsible for the change. Learning about the past has never been this exciting! This history book comes with a mix of carefully selected images and texts that will keep a child turning the pages all the way through the end. Secure a copy now!
by Universal Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Activists are people who managed to change the status quo, which they believe are unfair. In this book, you’re going to be inspired by the lives of influential and brave people from around the world. Filled with images and a layout design that captures the attention, this book is a must-have in either print, hardcover or digital format. Enjoy the read.
Love Wins
The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades—the legalization of same-sex marriage.
In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex...
Building the Great Society
Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
**The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform, to Medicare...
Shocking the Conscience
A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-size magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, "If it wasn't in Jet, it didn't happen." Writing for the magazine and its glossy, big sister Ebony, for fifty-three...
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
**In time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi's writings on nonviolent resistance and activism.
A Penguin Classic**
The year 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi's birth, and Penguin...
We Have Not Been Moved
Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A compendium of writings that detail the grassroots actions of social and political activists from the civil rights era of the early 1960s to the present day, this book reviews the major points of intersection between white supremacy and the war machine through historic and contemporary articles from...
The 1970s
A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military...
Remembering America
A Voice from the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
From the speechwriter and top adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson: A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics.
Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 1958 as a law clerk for Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter. He left politics ten...
Acting for Freedom
Fifty Years of Civil Liberties in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with this overview of its activities--sometimes quiet and sometimes strident--as a watchdog and safeguard for Canadians and their rights as citizens. Through a series of discussions and interviews, a picture of Canada over...
by David K. Shipler
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
From the best-selling author of The Working Poor, an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives.
How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly...
Torture as Tort
Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
The controversial nature of seeking globalised justice through national courts has become starkly apparent in the wake of the Pinochet case in which the Spanish legal system sought to bring to account under international criminal law the former President of Chile,for violations in Chile of human rights...
by Stephen L. Pevar
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law. The book, which explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way, is particularly useful for tribal advocates, government...
Daddy King
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
From coming of age under poverty and the looming threat of racial violence to preaching from the Ebenezer pulpit for forty years, King, Sr., candidly reveals his life inside the civil rights movement, illustrating the profound influence he had on his son.
Born in 1899 to a family of sharecroppers...