Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Song for My Father
Memoir of an All-American Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
On Election Day in 1960, a classmate of Stephanie Stokes Oliver threatened to beat her up. Why? Because in their class's mock presidential election, Stephanie revealed that she would follow her father's lead and vote for Nixon over Kennedy. Stephanie realized this day that her family was different...
Bullies
How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
From the editor-at-large of Breitbart.com comes a galvanizing and alarming look at the strategy and tactics of leftist thuggery.
While President Obama and the left like to pretend that they oppose bullying with all their hearts and souls, the truth is far darker: the left is the greatest purveyor...
Hard Time
Life with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in America?s Toughest Jail
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Shaun Attwood was a millionaire day trader in Phoenix, Arizona, but his hedonistic lifestyle of drugs and parties came to an abrupt end in 2002 when a SWAT team broke down his door. Attwood found himself on remand in Maricopa Jail with a $750,000 cash bond and all of his assets seized. The nightmare...
by Michael I. Meyerson
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The debate over the framers’ concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and others. Legal...
Plessy v. Ferguson
Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination—but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court's landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly...
by Dr. Jack Kushner
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
When one reads the history of the state of Alabama, courageous judicial decisions appears to be an oxymoron because there have not been many such decisions. Most that did occur were related in some fashion to the racial problems that have existed in Alabama from the very beginning of statehood. It...
Who's Gonna Take the Weight?
Manhood, Race, and Power in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“A mighty wind of fresh air. His pitiless self-examination—and his equally honest exploration of the racial, sexual, cultural, and class fault lines that thread our psychic and social landscape—is not only brave but necessary if our nation is to survive.”
—Michael Eric Dyson
“Kevin...
Going Too Far
Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Ishmael Reed goes too far, again! Just as the fugitive slaves went to Canada and challenged the prevailing view that slaves were well off under their masters, Ishmael Reed has gone all the way to Quebec—where this book is published—to challenge the widespread opinion that racism is no longer a...
The Terror Courts
Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Last Chance for Justice
How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Revealing the story of the reopening of the case of the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing of 1963, this insider’s account divulges the ins and outs of the investigation led by detective Ben Herren of the Birmingham Police Department and special agent Bill Fleming of the FBI. For more than a year,...
Police State
How America's Cops Get Away with Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
How does America, founded on the promise of freedom for all, find itself poised to become a police state?
In Police State, legendary "country lawyer" Gerry Spence reveals the unnerving truth of our criminal justice system. In his more than sixty years in the courtroom, Spence has...
by Richard Carlile
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
3 works of Richard Carlile Agitator for the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press in the United Kingdom (1790-1843)
This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Richard Carlile. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - An Address to Men of Science - Church Reform - Life of Thomas Paine
Smokescreen
The US, NATO and the Illegitimate Use of Force
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When is it legitimate for nations to use force?The United States and NATO regularly employ the illegitimate use of force, using false arguments and a haze of purported altruistic justifications to justify their actions. But objective standards to legitimacy exist, and those standards are enshrined...
The Slaveholding Republic
An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2002
Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America's most eminent historians refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln....