Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Distopía mexicana
Perspectivas para una nueva transición
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Un libro que aborda la suma de aquellos males que agobian a México y que en cada página nos coloca ante un espejo, forzosamente incómodo, para advertirnos sobre el horror de seguir en este indeseable camino.
En Distopía mexicana Lorenzo Meyer reprueba categóricamente el actuar del gobierno...
The Last Invisible Continent
Essays on Adoption and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
These twelve essays span nearly twenty years of research and activism that chronicle one man's search for his family. Together, they explore the concept of personal identity from the perspective of someone who was erased completely by adoption in The State of New York.
"The Last Invisible...
A Stone of Hope
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
In the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and Just Mercy, a searing memoir and clarion call to save our at-risk youth by a young black man who himself was a lost cause—until he landed in a rehabilitation program that saved his life and gave him purpose.
Born into abject poverty in Haiti, young...
Old Sparky
The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A shocking exploration of America’s preferred method of capital punishment.
In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method. Shouting Póg mo thóin (Kiss my ass” in Gaelic), he grinned as electricity shot through his...
by Eric Deggans
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Gone is the era of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, when news programs fought to gain the trust and respect of a wide spectrum of American viewers. Today, the fastest-growing news programs and media platforms are fighting hard for increasingly narrow segments of the public and playing on old...
Rising Tide
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million...
Determined
A Lifetime of Love and Hate, War and Peace ... And What the Water Moccasin Taught Me
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
A personal, inspiring memoir of Felker Ward Jr., an Atlanta, Georgia, legal, business, community and military legend. He is also a husband, father of four and grandfather. Introduction by former Atlanta Mayor and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young. Includes dozens of photos.
Tears We Cannot Stop
A Sermon to White America
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, GUELPH MERCURY TRIBUNE, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post • Bustle • Men's Journal • The Chicago Reader •...
Becoming Ms. Burton
From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Media hook: In the midst of an unprecedented national conversation about incarceration, a book that will put a human face on the War on Drugs and on what it really means to come home from prison—with an introduction by and launch event with Michelle Alexander.
Platform: A media-savvy author...
A Mighty Long Way
My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
BONUS: This edition contains an A Mighty Long Way discussion guide.
When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock...
by Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Legendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd teams up with influential labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on solidarity unionism, the do-it-yourself workplace organizing system that is rapidly gaining prominence around the country and around the world. Lynd and Gross make the audacious argument...
Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida
Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the “First Lady of Negro America,” but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well. From the founding of the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in 1904, Bethune galvanized African American women for...
The Feminism Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Discover more than 85 of the most important ideas, movements, and events that have defined feminism and feminist thought throughout history with this original, graphic-led book.
Using the Big Ideas series' trademark combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics, this book...
Hack Attack
The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The definitive book on how the News of the World phone-hacking scandal reached the highest echelons of power in the government, security, and media in the UK, from the journalist who broke the story.
At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught...