Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Covering
The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.
“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone...
Born along the Color Line
The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B....
by Helen Fenwick, Richard Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
More than merely describing the evolution of human rights and civil liberties law, this classic textbook provides students with detailed and thought-provoking coverage of the most crucial developments in the field, clearly explaining the law in context and practice.
Updated throughout for this...
Path Towards Equality: Anti-Discrimination Acts & Most Important Supreme Court Decisions Against Racism
Civil Rights Legislation and Racial Discrimination Law: From the Thirteenth Amendment to the Hate Crimes Prevention Act & from the Strauder v. West Virginia to the Batson v. Kentucky Case
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This is a unique legal collection comprised of the most important U.S. Civil Rights Acts and Supreme Court decisions considering racial discrimination. Ideals, hopes and dreams of Nat Turner, Dred Scott, Martin Luther King and many other activists who fought for equality, are built in the legislative...
From Civil Rights to Human Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King's nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated, Thomas F. Jackson argues in this searching reinterpretation of...
Give Us the Ballot
The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Nonfiction
A New York Times Notable Book of 2015
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015
An NPR Best Book of 2015
Countless books have been written...
Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy
The Politics of Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An examination of US public policymaking and securing rights for people with disabilities.
Following on the heels of other Civil Rights movements, disability rights laws emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Often these laws were more symbolic than precise in terms of objectives and strategies...
A Right to Exist
Whose Rights Are Right?
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
A Right to Exist: Whose Rights Are Right? traces the development of the understanding and expression of rights in American culture. By looking back to the history of the struggle for the recognition of civil rights, John Jeffrey traces their development and, along the way, explores the emerging confusion...
MLK: An American Legacy
Bearing the Cross, Protest at Selma, and The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
**Three meticulously researched works—including Pulitzer Prize winner Bearing the Cross—spanning the life of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
This collection from professor and historian David J. Garrow provides a multidimensional and fascinating portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.,...
I Must Resist
Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's...
Shattered Glass in Birmingham
My Family's Fight for Civil Rights, 1961-1964
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Shattered Glass in Birmingham traces the experiences of a white northern family during the climax of the civil rights movement in Alabama's largest city. Recounted primarily from Randall Jimerson's perspective as one of five children of Reverend Norman C. "Jim" Jimerson, executive director...
Civil Rights Unionism
Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned...
Civil Disobedience
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Traditional democratic structures in the Western world are coming under increasing pressure. A combination of political corruption, voter apathy and attacks on the rights of the citizen are being driven by authoritarian tendencies not seen for generations. In turn, this is being stoked by an artificial...
The Civil Rights Movement in America: From Black Nationalism to the Women's Political Council
From Black Nationalism to the Women's Political Council
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
This single volume encyclopedia not only provides accessible A–Z entries about the well-known people and events of the Civil Rights Movement but also offers coverage of lesser-known contributors to the movement's overall success and outcomes. This comprehensive work provides both authoritative ready...