Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Some of My Best Friends Are Black
The Strange Story of Integration in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
An irreverent, yet powerful exploration of race relations by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Chris Farley Show
Frank, funny, and incisive, Some of My Best Friends Are Black offers a profoundly honest portrait of race in America. In a book that is part reportage, part history, part...
by John Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
What do you want?
"I want the Ed Sullivan Show."
At the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, like a lot of black Americans, comedian Jackie Mann wanted to be somebody. And for him there was only one way to achieve that: to make it big. Make it, no matter the cost: friends, family,...
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The book connects with the growing Black Lives Matter movement, the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement that has intensified since Israel's latest assualt on Gaza
Angela Davis is internationally renowned and among the most well respected voices and leaders in the civil rights and black...
by Linda Rae Hermann
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Winning the Culture War is an exposé on America’s gradual but steady secular and socialist drift. It serves as a treatise that unashamedly reinforces our country’s Judeo-Christian heritage while sounding the alarm at where we as Americans are heading unless Christians and concerned citizens take...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves, to follow the dictates of their own conscience and to make an art of their lives. This representative sampling of his thought includes five of his...
The Promise and the Dream
The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“A fascinating, elegiac account” of the bond between two of the Civil Rights Era’s most important leaders—from the journalist and author of Strange Fruit (Chicago Tribune).
With vision and political savvy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy set the United States on a path...
I Have a Dream
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s Speech 50 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before 250,000 people and held them in the palm of his hand. Speaking at the March on Washington, the Baptist minister gave what has come to be known as his I have a dream speech. King began by saying America had failed to deliver on its promise of equality...
Jackson, 1964
And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present
In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South....
The World of the John Birch Society
Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
As far as members of the hugely controversial John Birch Society were concerned, the Cold War revealed in stark clarity the loyalties and disloyalties of numerous important Americans, including Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, and Earl Warren. Founded in 1958 as a force for conservative political...
Freedom's Orphans
Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Has contemporary liberalism's devotion to individual liberty come at the expense of our society's obligations to children? Divorce is now easy to obtain, and access to everything from violent movies to sexually explicit material is zealously protected as freedom of speech. But what of the effects...
by John D. Inazu
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
This original and provocative book looks at an important constitutional freedom that today is largely forgotten: the right of assembly. While this right lay at the heart of some of the most important social movements in American history—abolitionism, women's suffrage, the labor and civil rights movements—courts...
We Have Overcome
An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
It has been more than fifty years since the Civil Rights Act enshrined equality under the law for all Americans. Since that time, America has enjoyed an era of unprecedented prosperity, domestic and international peace, and technological advancement. It’s almost as if removing the shackles of enforced...
The Double V
How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years...
Freedom Summer
The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.
In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964,...