Civil Rights category: 2079 books
The People of This Generation
The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
At the heart of the tumult that marked the 1960s was the unprecedented scale of student protest on university campuses around the world. Identifying themselves as the New Left, as distinguished from the Old Left socialists who engineered the historic labor protests of the 1930s, these young idealists...
by Gavin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Southern bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins were famous acts of civil disobedience but were also demands for jobs in the very services being denied blacks. Gavin Wright shows that the civil rights struggle was of economic benefit to all parties: the wages of southern blacks increased dramatically but not at the expense of southern whites.
Silent Covenants
Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2004
When the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates believed that the decision, which declared public school segregation unconstitutional, would become the Holy Grail of racial justice. Fifty years later, despite its legal irrelevance...
Courts and Consociations
Human Rights versus Power-Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Consociations are power-sharing arrangements, increasingly used to manage ethno-nationalist, ethno-linguistic, and ethno-religious conflicts. Current examples include Belgium, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Burundi, and Iraq. Despite their growing popularity, they have begun to be challenged before human...
by William J. Talbott
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In the last half of the twentieth century, legalized segregation ended in the southern United States, apartheid ended in South Africa, women in many parts of the world came to be recognized as having equal rights with men, persons with disabilities came to be recognized as having rights to develop...
Two Treatises on Government
A Translation into Modern English
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Two Treatises on Government: A Translation into Modern English
John Locke’s 1690 book is one of the most important and influential works on government ever published. The first part demolishes the main authoritarian/totalitarian ideology of its day: the doctrine of the divine right of kings...
Policing Hatred
Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Policing Hatred explores the intersection of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. The nation’s attention has recently been focused on high-profile hate crimes such as the dragging death of James Byrd and the torture-murder of Matthew Shepard. This book calls attention...
The Crisis of Britain's Surveillance State
Security, Law Enforcement, and the Intelligence War in Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Great Britain is in a great crisis, one that gets worse with every attempt to patch things up. The global spread of technology and international links enables a rapid rise in the traffic of dangerous ideas, dangerous materials and dangerous people. An international journalist ties together the common...
by Thomas Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Freedom and the Foundation is a study in depth of the first and most controversial of the tax-exempt foundations dedicated to research and public education in the field of civil liberties and civil rights: The Fund for the Republic.
The story of its struggle for survival, as Mr. Reeves demonstrates,...
The Essential Mario Savio
Speeches and Writings that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, was pivotal in shaping 1960s America. Led by Mario Savio and other young veterans of the civil rights movement, student activists organized what was to that point the most tumultuous student rebellion in American history. Mass sit-ins, a nonviolent...
by Christopher N. J. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Today, the idea of human rights enjoys near-universal support; yet, there is deep disagreement about what human rights actually are - their true source of origin, how to study them, and how best to address their deficits. In this sweeping historical exploration, Christopher N. J. Roberts traces these...
The Varieties of Religious Repression
Why Governments Restrict Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Religious repression--the non-violent suppression of civil and political rights--is a growing and global phenomenon. Though most often practiced in authoritarian countries, levels of religious repression nevertheless vary across a range of non-democratic regimes, including illiberal democracies and...
Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma
Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
As Mississippi's attorney general from 1956 to 1969, Joe T. Patterson led the legal defense for Jim Crow in the state. He was inaugurated for his first term two months before the launch of the Sovereignty Commission--charged "to protect the sovereignty of Mississippi from encroachment thereon...
Fault Lines of History
The India Papers II
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important yet silenced subject. Six country volumes (one each...