Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Paul Von Blum
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A large swath of literature on the civil rights movement exists in the United States. Much of that literature focuses on the dramatic events of the African American resistance to Jim Crow and oppression from the mid 1950s through the early 1970s. Frequently, this material is scholarly and, at best,...
by Joseph Parker Witherspoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The civil rights problem of the mid-twentieth century was one of the greatest challenges to the American social fabric since the Civil War. Riots in scores of cities, and serious intergroup tensions and conflicts in thousands more, underlined the seriousness of the problem.Administrative Implementation...
After Civil Rights
Racial Realism in the New American Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In After Civil Rights, John Skrentny contends that...
Freedom on the Border
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserved thanks to the dozens of civil rights activists across Kentucky who shared their memories in the wide-ranging oral history project from which this...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Civil Rights in American Law, History, and Politics charts the ambiguous and contested meanings of civil rights in law and culture and confronts important questions about race in contemporary America. How important is civil rights in America's story of possibility and change? How has it transformed...
Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi
Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
In the 1890s, Mississippi society still drew a sharp line between its African American and white communities by creating a repressive racial system that ensured white supremacy by legally segregating black residents and removing their basic citizenship and voting rights. Over the ensuing decades,...
by Catherine M. Paden
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Representation of the poor has never been the top priority for civil rights organizations, which exist to eradicate racially prejudiced and discriminatory practices and policy. Scholars have argued that the activities and ideologies of civil rights groups have functioned with a distinct middle-class...
All for Civil Rights
African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
“The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,” writes W. Lewis Burke, “is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.” Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black lawyers were admitted...
Freedom's Pragmatist
Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
History has labeled Lyndon B. Johnson "Lincoln's successor." But how did a southern president representing a predominately conservative state, with connections to some of the nation's leading segregationists, come to play such an influential role in civil rights history? In Freedom's Pragmatist,...
Jimmie Lee & James
Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In the early months of 1965, the killings of two civil rights activists inspired the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, which became the driving force behind the passage of the Voting Rights Act. This is their story.
“Bloody Sunday”—March 7, 1965—was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This revised and expanded four-volume encyclopedia is unequaled for both the depth and breadth of its coverage. Some 650 entries address the full range of civil rights and liberties in America from the Colonial Era to the present. In addition to many updates of material from the first edition, the...
Saving the Soul of Georgia
Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia’s chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for their civil rights work, and fought to undermine...
From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights
The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality.
As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely...
The Education of a Black Radical
A Southern Civil Rights Activist's Journey, 1959-1964
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
"A strong, uncompromising voice that dreams of a better America, Judge Bailey has experienced the ugliness of both racism and fear. Yet he has not stepped back. What a wonderful life to share." -- Nikki Giovanni, from her Foreword
When four black college students refused to leave the whites-only...