Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Meredith Coleman McGee
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This book provides an honest look at the life and times of Civil Rights icon James Howard Meredith within the context of the America that created him and his generation.
• Includes information on Meredith's family history that has not previously been available to the general public
•...
The Cincinnati Human Relations Commission
A History, 1943–2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
In the summer of 1943, as World War II raged overseas, the United States also faced internal strife. Earlier that year, Detroit had erupted in a series of race riots that killed dozens and destroyed entire neighborhoods. Across the country, mayors and city councils sought to defuse racial tensions...
Betraying Big Brother
The Feminist Awakening in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A feminist movement clashing with China’s authoritarian government
On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking...
by Daniel C. Lavery
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Daniel C. Lavery's All the Difference is a riveting memoir about a conservative naval officer about to navigate marines to Vietnam who had an epiphany of conscience at Berkeley. A judge ordered Dan when five to leave his mother and live with his Dad, a naval officer who molds him for the military....
Barbara Jordan
American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Yet Jordan herself remained a mystery, a woman so private that even...
Making Good Neighbors
Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods, Philadelphia's West Mount Airy became one of the first neighborhoods in the nation where residents came together...
Unjust Deeds
The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive...
The Pursuit of Fairness
A History of Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Affirmative action strikes at the heart of deeply held beliefs about employment and education, about fairness, and about the troubled history of race relations in America. Published on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, this is the only book available that gives readers a balanced,...
Class Struggle and the Color Line
American Socialism and the Race Question, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Offers a glimpse into the early history of Black radicalism, before the Civil Rights or Black Power movements.
Collects many hitherto unpublished works from central figures in the history of American Black radicalism, from Claude McKay to A. Philip Randolph.
Assembles in one place the...
Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality
The Political Economy of Employment in Southern Communities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The civil rights movement of the 1960s improved the political and legal status of African Americans, but the quest for equality in employment and economic well-being has lagged behind. Blacks are more than twice as likely as whites to be employed in lower-paying service jobs or to be unemployed, are...
Jim Crow Terminals
The Desegregation of American Airports
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands...
Faith in Black Power
Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In 1969, nineteen-year-old Robert Hunt was found dead in the Cairo, Illinois, police station. The white authorities ruled the death a suicide, but many members of the African American community believed that Hunt had been murdered -- a sentiment that sparked rebellions and protests across the city....
A Spectacular Leap
Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with “a spectacular leap,” African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty years before they would experience something akin...
From Civil Partnership to Same-Sex Marriage
Interdisciplinary Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 are important legal, social and historical landmarks, rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings. While fiercely opposed by many, within mainstream narratives they are often represented as a victory in a legal reform...