Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Zones of Twilight
Wartime Presidential Powers and Federal Court Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
The Bill of Rights was designed to protect the American public from encroachments of liberty by the federal government. During times of war, the president often spearheads efforts to limit rights in the name of national security. When these cases make their way through the federal courts system, it...
Women's Rights in the USA
Policy Debates and Gender Roles
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Women’s Rights in the USA is a rigorous examination of the intersection of gender roles and public policy and the implications for feminist activists. The book places full information on state and federal statutes and court decisions in the context of the ebb and flow of debates that have engaged...
Democracy as Human Rights
Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Is global democracy possible? The most prominent institutional manifestations of this concept-the UN, WTO, IMF and World Bank-have been skewered as cloistered anti-democratic institutions by anti-globalization activists. Meanwhile, proponents of globalization advocate reforming these institutions...
When They Come for You
How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights—and how to fight back.
Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our...
Women, Poverty, Equality
The Role of CEDAW
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The stark reality is that throughout the world, women disproportionately live in poverty. This indicates that gender can both cause and perpetuate poverty, but this is a complex and cross-cutting relationship.The full enjoyment of human rights is routinely denied to women who live in poverty. How...
by Philip Leach
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This book provides comprehensive coverage of the law and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights. It incorporates a step-by-step approach to the litigation process, covering areas such as lodging the initial application, seeking priority treatment, friendly settlement, the pilot judgment procedure,...
Paul Robeson
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The remarkable life of Paul Robeson, quintessential Harlem Renaissance man: scholar, all-American, actor, activist, and firebrand
Born the son of an ex-slave in New Jersey in 1898, Paul Robeson, endowed with multiple gifts, seemed destined for fame. In his youth, he was as tenacious in the...
BEV
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Based on the real life story of a little-known figure in the Civil Rights Movement: a white social worker who left the comforts of her life in New York City to travel to the segregated South, comes BEV, a fictionalized account of the strength, compassion, and dangers people faced in their fight to...
The Outskirts of Hope
A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Where was there a civil war? What were the events that led to bloodshed? In this 5th grader American history, we're going to visit all those facts hoping that we won’t commit the same mistakes as our ancestors. We're also going to look at the effects of the war on the American people. Are you ready to expand your knowledge on history?
Claudette Colvin
Twice Toward Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.'" – Claudette Colvin
On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat...
Simple Justice
The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and...
A Vast Conspiracy
The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
In A Vast Conspiracy, the best-selling author of The Run of His Life casts an insightful, unbiased eye over the most extraordinary public saga of our time -- the Clinton sex scandals. A superlative journalist known for the skillfulness of his investigating and the power of his writing, Jeffrey Toobin...
Rising Tide
Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's Last Quarter
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime.
During the bloodiest years of the civil rights movement, Bear Bryant and...