Civil Rights category: 2079 books
America's Growing Inequality
The Impact of Poverty and Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council from 2006 to the present. Authors are some of the leading figures in a range of activities around these themes. It is the fourth such...
Colorblind
The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era. Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to...
Marks, Martin and the Mule Train
Marks, Mississippi Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Origin of the 1968 Poor People’S Campaign Mule Train
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Marks, Martin and the Mule Train is a third person chronicle of Marks, Mississippi as the origin of the Mule Train component of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. The book begins with the backdrop of living conditions in Marks, a small town in the Mississippi Delta, mired in abject poverty during the...
by Stephanie Mills, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2004
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Writer, editor, ecologist, and activist, Stephanie Mills has been involved with matters ecological, bioregional, social, and political for over...
Contesting the Iron Fist
Advocacy Networks and Police Violence in Democratic Argentina and Chile
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This work analyzes the interactions and international connections of the "civil rights" and "pro-order" coalitions of state and societal actors in the two countries. The author demonstrates that in democratizing contexts, protecting citizens from police abuse and becomes part of...
Understanding Mass Incarceration
A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and impact of our criminal justice system? Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in...
SONGS AND VERSES OF THE SUFFRAGETTES - music and hymns from the Suffrage Movement
25 songs and poems used by the Suffrage Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
A MUST READ FOR EVERY TEENAGE GIRL AND WOMEN OF ALL AGES! This book will impart the passion and feeling behind the women of the Suffrage movement whithout whom women of today would not have the right to vote and other civil liberties.
Herein are 25 songs and poems compiled from various sources...
Common Sense
and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Thomas Paine is most famous for writing Common Sense, a pamphlet distributed during the American Revolution advocating for colonial America's independence from Great Britain. Now, collected here in a beautiful gift book volume, are excerpts from this important historical American document, as well...
Rising Road
A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had married Stephenson's...
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
To Tell It Like It Is
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972...
by Dale Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
“A highly informative, detailed, even thrilling account of how the Supreme Court arguments reshaped American law.”—Michael Bronkski, San Francisco Chronicle
No one could have predicted that the night of September 17, 1998, would be anything but routine in Houston, Texas. Even the call...
Democratic Coma
The Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
For too long, Blacks have held onto the lies their “friends and leaders” have told them … and then wondered why success and the American dream elude them. Sleep no more in this comatose state. Listen to Virgil Brannon as he removes the blinds and exposes the raw truth of who has done the most to...
Our Separate Ways
Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as "the capital of the black...
From the Closet to the Altar
Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics. But if most young people support gay marriage, and if there are clear indicators that a substantial majority of the population will soon favor it, why has the outcry against it been so strong? Bancroft Prize-winning...