Civil Rights category: 2079 books
In the Shadow of Korematsu
Democratic Liberties and National Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass incarceration link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris-San Bernardino attacks to the Trump era in America - an era darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom of religion, association...
Speak Now
Marriage Equality on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
**A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that stands as the most potent argument for marriage equality
*Speak Now *tells the story of a watershed trial that unfolded over twelve tense days in California in 2010. A trial that legalized same-sex...
The War Before the War
Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
**Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
A New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018
"Excellent... stunning."—Ta-Nehisi Coates
The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War**
For...
Assuming Boycott
Resistance, Agency and Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Street protests are one side of a worldwide citizens' movement. Another side is the increasing use of boycotts, one of the most powerful weapons in the organizer’s arsenal: it is an effective and moral lever for civil rights, most notably today in its adoption by the BDS movement.
Since the...
In Search of the Black Fantastic
Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2008
Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows in this provocative and insightful volume, despite the changes brought about by...
by Steve Babson, David Elsila, Dave Riddle
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Biography of Ernie Goodman, a Detroit lawyer and political activist who played a key role in social justice cases.
Faces at the Bottom of the Well
The Permanence of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The classic work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice
In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American...
Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South
Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike their peer public institutions, no federal court ordered these schools to admit black students and no troops arrived to protect access to the schools, to suggest that desegregation at...
Race and Education in North Carolina
From Segregation to Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The separation of white and black schools remained largely unquestioned and unchallenged in North Carolina for the first half of the twentieth century, yet by the end of the 1970s, the Tar Heel State operated the most thoroughly desegregated school system in the nation. In Race and Education in North...
Murder at Broad River Bridge
The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan on a back-country Georgia road in 1964, nine days after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Longtime Atlanta Constitution reporter Bill Shipp...
The Arrest Handbook
A Guide To Your Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Arrest Handbook is a guide to your rights and responsibilities when you deal with the police. Arrest, detention, searches, seizures and complaints are all covered in easy-to-understand language. Also included are special sections on mental health detentions, civil disobedience and protest, poverty law and anti-terrorist law.
The Parchman Ordeal
1965 Natchez Civil Rights Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
In October 1965, nearly 800 young people attempted to march from their churches in Natchez to protest segregation, discrimination and mistreatment by white leaders and elements of the Ku Klux Klan. As they exited the churches, local authorities forced the would-be marchers onto buses and charged them...
Prison Power
How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the African American Communication and Culture Division's 2017 Outstanding Book Award, both from the National Communication Association
In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource....
Whitewashed
America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not - an article by John TehranianThe Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on terrorism, the growing tension between preservation of our national security and protection of our civil rights,...