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JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In 1961—as America crackled with racial tension—the Washington Redskins stood alone as the only professional football team without a black player on its roster. In fact, during the entire twenty-five-year history of the franchise, no African American had ever played for George Preston Marshall,...
Letters from Concerned Americans
Mr. President, Republicans, and Democrats. You Need to Listen to Us!
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
America has been through the storm lately, with catastrophic events that tested our strength and faith as a nation. However, as always, America persevered, and now it is the time for America to hold true to the promises of democracy by improving the lives of all Americans. There is a great discourse...
A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
In 1946 a young woman named Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (1924–1995) was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma College of Law because she was African American. The OU law school was an all-white institution in a town where African Americans could work and shop as long as they got out before sundown....
by Richard Kreitner (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Millions of Americans have read and been galvanized by A People’s History of the United States. But many years before Howard Zinn published that epic saga of exploitation and resistance, he was organizing civil-rights protests and agitating for an end to the Vietnam War—and writing about those...
A Crisis of Leadership and the Role of Citizens in Black America
Leaders of the New School
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A theoretical examination of the concepts of the citizen, citizenship, and leadership, A Crisis of Leadership and the Role of Citizens in Black America: Leaders of the New School proposes to develop a prototype or model of effective Black leadership. Furthermore, it examines “citizenship habits”...
Because of Sex
One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
“Meticulously researched and rewarding to read…Thomas is a gifted storyteller.” —The New York Times Book Review
Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America’s working women. Title VII of the...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
*Includes the full text of the Dred Scott decision and every opinion written by the Supreme Court justices. *Analyzes the Dred Scott decision and its impact on future civil rights cases.*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. *Includes a Table of Contents. "The question is simply...
Blood Done Sign My Name
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird
*Chicago Tribune
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old...
by Polly Ann Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
On a rainy night in a little town in Sanford, Florida, a shot rang out that would soon be heard all over the world, and a young, black, teenage boy lay dead on the wet grass. His name was Trayvon Martin. He was only 17 years old. Trayvon Martin is dead. Never again will we hear his sweet laughter...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Thurgood Marshall rides the train in the Jim Crow car (the one directly behind the engine) to the American south to defend yet another black citizen in court. Marshall, who was the grandson of a mixed-race slave, is an integral part of the growing civil rights movement in America. His father and uncle...
Across That Bridge
Life Lessons and a Vision for Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography.
In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested...
The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice
Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and noted professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, a groundbreaking book that examines both civil and criminal court cases from the Civil War to the present, to reveal the impact of stereotyping--race, class, gender--on the American...
A Will to Be Free, Vol. I
Up From Slavery; Twelve Years a Slave; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent men whose rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup...
The New Abolition
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a “new abolition” would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual...