Civil Rights category: 2079 books
The American Civil Rights Movement 1865–1950
Black Agency and People of Good Will
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
The American Civil Rights Movement 1865–1950 is a history of the African American struggle for freedom and equality from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. It synthesizes the disparate black movements, explaining consistent themes and controversies...
Before Brown
Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Before Brown details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the...
When Freedom Would Triumph
The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954–1968
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
When Freedom Would Triumph recalls the most significant and inspiring legislative battle of the twentieth century -- the two decades of struggle in the halls of Congress that resulted in civil rights for the descendants of American slaves. Robert Mann's comprehensive analysis shows how political leaders...
by A.G. Noorani, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
The civil rights of Indian citizens are guaranteed both in the Indian Constitution and through the State's international commitments. Despite these guarantees, the civil rights framework encounters numerous challenges from the State—problematic counter-terrorism laws, continuation of the death penalty,...
by Michelle Hall Kells
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Beginning as a grassroots organizer in the 1950s, Vicente Ximenes was at the forefront of the movement for Mexican American civil rights through three presidential administrations, joining Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society and later emerging as one of the highest-ranking appointees in Johnson’s...
The Search for Justice
Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950–1975
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change were lawyers, who wielded the power of law to resolve competing concepts of order and equality and, in the end, to hold out the promise of a new and better nation.
The...
The Deacons for Defense
Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization--the Deacons for Defense and Justice--to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence. With their...
Equal Citizenship, Civil Rights, and the Constitution
The Original Sense of the Privileges or Immunities Clause
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is arguably the most historically important clause of the most significant part of the US Constitution. Designed to be a central guarantor of civil rights and civil liberties following Reconstruction, this clause could have been at the...
by Ralph J. Temple
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A memoir from one of the country’s top civil rights lawyers—from his work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through his career at the ACLU.
This volume comprises Ralph J. Temple’s memoirs of his life and his work on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged. After graduating from Harvard Law School...
Judgment Days
Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s up-close account of how a white president and a black minister ultimately came together to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
They were the unlikeliest of partners: a white Texan politician and an African American minister who led a revolution. But together, President...
by Robert Shogan
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
When Harry Truman was rescued from political obscurity to become Franklin Roosevelt's running mate, black Americans were deeply troubled. Many believed that Truman, born and raised in former slave-holding Missouri, was a step back on civil rights from Henry Wallace, the liberal incumbent vice president....
by Christopher M. Richardson, Ralph E. Luker
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement is a guide to the history of the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. The history of this period is covered in a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary...
What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said
The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision ordering the desegregation of America's public schools, is perhaps the most famous case in American constitutional law. Criticized and even openly defied when first handed down, in half a century Brown has become a venerated symbol...
If It Takes All Summer
Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This memoir recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, in the early and mid-1960s. In the summer of 1964 the nation’s oldest city became the center of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged by President Johnson, a southerner, who made the civil...