Civil Rights category: 2079 books
A Freedom Budget for All Americans
Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked today. That vision sought economic justice for every person in the United States, regardless of race....
Deep Roots
How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American South
Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights,...
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Legislating a New America
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Along with the civil rights and voting rights acts, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is one of the most important bills of the civil rights era. The Act's political, legal, and demographic impact continues to be felt, yet its legacy is controversial. The 1965 Act was groundbreaking in eliminating...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights discourses and practices. Covering events as far removed from one another in time and space as the...
Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers
Memories of Mississippi 196465
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In June 1964, courageous young civil rights workers risked their lives in the face of violence, intimidation, illegal arrests, and racism to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. With a firsthand account of the...
Resisting Equality
The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
In Resisting Equality Stephanie R. Rolph examines the history of the Citizens’ Council, an organization committed to coordinating opposition to desegregation and black voting rights. In the first comprehensive study of this racist group, Rolph follows the Citizens’ Council from its establishment...
Intimate Justice
The Black Female Body and the Body Politic
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
In 1973, the year the women's movement won an important symbolic victory with Roe v. Wade, reports surfaced that twelve-year-old Minnie Lee Relf and her fourteen-year-old sister Mary Alice, the daughters of black Alabama farm hands, had been sterilized without their or their parents' knowledge or...
River of Hope
Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865--1954
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry, Memphis, Tennessee, was at the forefront of black political empowerment during the Jim Crow era. Compared to other cities in the South, Memphis had an unusually large number of African American voters. Black Memphians sought reform...
The Enigma of Diversity
The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That’s a remarkable change from the Civil Rights era—but does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victory? What does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts...
Strong Inside
Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
New York Times Best Seller
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title
Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball...
In Defense of Our America
The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“A brave, powerful book from one of freedom’s most courageous defenders. These stories remind us how real -- how personal -- the threats to our Constitutional rights really are -- and of the duty that we all have to protect them in times of trouble. Woven through these riveting chapters is a strong...
Equality
An American Dilemma, 1866-1896
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
An in-depth study of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today by a prizewinning historian
The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women’s rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers...
The Martyred Madonna
"Ss = Schutzstaffel"
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
In ardent dedication to defend civil liberties, the author speaks from the viewpoint of a progressive conservative aiming to resolve injustices placed upon the vulnerable, defenseless, & disadvantaged. In effort to propel a voice of the majority of citizens who have no podium for projecting, no...
Elusive Citizenship
Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Since the late nineteenth century, federal and state rules governing immigration and naturalization have placed persons of Asian ancestry outside the boundaries of formal membership. A review of leading cases in American constitutional law regarding Asians would suggest that initially, Asian immigrants...