Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far race relations have progressed, and sadly how far we have yet to go. Included are "Industrial Education...
What Set Me Free (The Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture Brian Banks)
A True Story of Wrongful Conviction, a Dream Deferred, and a Man Redeemed
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Brian Banks, the major motion picture starring Aldis Hodge, Greg Kinnear, and Sherri Shepherd**, winner of the audience award at the 2018 LA Film Festival, opens nationwide in 2019!**
Discover the unforgettable and inspiring true story of Brian Banks—a young man who was wrongfully convicted...
by Nelson Mandela
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable...
Through Prison Bars
The Lives and Labours of John Howard and Elizabeth Fry
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A fascinating look—first published in 1894—at two philanthropists known as the “Prisoner’s Friends” and the early history of prison reform.
Prisons in England were once dark, inhumane places lacking any regulations. The facilities were poorly managed and unsanitary, and prisoners...
Insecure at Last
Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
“Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? Nothing is secure. And this is the good news. But only if you are not seeking security as the point of your life.”–Eve Ensler
When her stage play The Vagina Monologues became a runaway hit and an international sensation,...
Dromen van mijn vader
het verhaal van mijn familie
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 26, 2017
In ‘Dromen van mijn vader’ vertelt Barack Obama helder, meeslepend en zonder vals sentiment hoe hij als zoon van een zwarte Afrikaanse vader en een witte Amerikaanse moeder probeert een betekenisvol Amerikaans leven te leiden. Hij is opgevoed door zijn moeder; zijn vader was de grote afwezige,...
Enslaved
The New British Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Slavery in Britain did not end with William Wilberforce at the beginning of the nineteenth century. They may be largely invisible to us, but living in our midst are thousands of slaves. Rahila Gupta seeks out five escapees and persuades them to tell us their stories in this compelling book. We meet...
by Phillip M. Duse Sr
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
This is the third book authored by Phillip M. Duse Sr. and is directed towards law-abiding people of the Western world, particularly teachers and students. It shares horrific experience of the author forced to deal with and unlawful actions of U.S. Government and local investigative entities against him.
by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
This Plunkett Lake Press eBook is produced by arrangement with Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Castellio is a book against zealots of every kind: against anything engendering “the destruction of this world’s divine manifoldness”...
by Ishmael Reed
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed’s The Complete Muhammad Ali is more than just a biography—it is a fascinating portrait of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. An honest, balanced portrayal of Ali, the book...
Invisible Women
Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical,...
Altreconomia 191 - Marzo 2017
Fino all’ultimo biglietto
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 1, 2017
L’inchiesta di copertina di Altreconomia 191 s’intitola “Fino all’ultimo biglietto”: vi accompagnerà alla scoperta del secondary ticketing, la rivendita online che fa schizzare il costo per assistere ai concerti delle star. Un mercato da 8 miliardi di dollari. Il “primo tempo” del giornale...
Altreconomia 192 - Aprile 2017
La verità sul lavoro
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 1, 2017
L’inchiesta di copertina del numero di aprile di Altreconomia è dedicata al “lavoro tradito” in Italia. Tra contratti a termine, incentivi a pioggia, licenziamenti facili e giustizia a caro prezzo, ecco come stanno davvero le cose, a due anni e mezzo dal Jobs Act.
Un bel reportage dall’Ucraina,...
Hidden Girl
The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
An inspiring and compelling memoir from a young woman who lost her childhood to slavery—and built a new life grounded in determination and justice.
When Shyima Hall was eight years old, her impoverished parents sold her to pay a debt. Two years later, the wealthy family she was sold to moved...