Civil Rights list 10

Elbert Parr Tuttle

Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution

by Anne Emanuel, Paul Finkelman, Timothy Huebner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

This is the first—and the only authorized—biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897–1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution. By the time Tuttle became chief judge of the United States...

The Promise and Perils of Transnationalization

NGO Activism and the Socialization of Women’s Human Rights in Egypt and Iran

by Benjamin Stachursky
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013

To date, most constructivist international relations studies have characterized the influence of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism as uniformly positive. In particular, transnational interactions are viewed as positive factors for the development and daily impact of gender activism. Benjamin...

Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa

Symbols or Substance?

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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013

The embrace of socio-economic rights in South Africa has featured prominently in scholarship on constitution making, legal jurisprudence and social mobilisation. But the development has attracted critics who claim that this turn to rights has not generated social transformation in practice. This book...

Rights on Trial

How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality

by Ellen Berrey, Robert L. Nelson, Laura Beth Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017

Gerry Handley faced years of blatant race-based harassment before he filed a complaint against his employer: racist jokes, signs reading “KKK” in his work area, and even questions from coworkers as to whether he had sex with his daughter as slaves supposedly did. He had an unusually strong case,...

Rightlessness

Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II

by A. Naomi Paik
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016

In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively rightless,...

Forcing the Spring

Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality

by Jo Becker
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

**A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction) A Kirkus Best Book of the Year “[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train...Becker's...

The Delivery of Human Rights

Essays in Honour of Professor Sir Nigel Rodley

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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010

The Delivery of Human Rights reflects on two overlapping issues in international human rights law: how can existing norms be better implemented and effected, and how can other branches of international law or other international actors be used so as to provide an improved delivery of those norms....

Challenging U.S. Apartheid

Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960–1977

by Winston A. Grady-Willis
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2006

Challenging U.S. Apartheid is an innovative, richly detailed history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city’s first Black mayor, in 1977. Winston A. Grady-Willis provides a seamless...

The Children

by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Fifties: An “intimate and monumental” account of the people at the core of the civil rights movement (Publishers Weekly). The young men and women at the heart of David Halberstam’s brilliant and poignant The Children came together through...

Memphis 68

The Tragedy of Southern Soul

by Stuart Cosgrove
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017

WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music. It was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease...

Radio Free Dixie

Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

by Timothy B. Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009

This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, Williams and his followers...

The A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham: A Civil Rights Landmark

by Marie A. Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

Traveling throughout the South during the 1950s was hazardous for African Americans. There were precious few hotels and restaurants that opened their doors to minorities, and fewer still had accommodations above the bare minimum, to say nothing of the racism and violence that followed. But in Birmingham,...

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

by Jeanne Theoharis
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013

**2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013 The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades...