Civil Rights category: 2079 books
The Color of Work
The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South's major industries. The paper industry, which has played an important role in the southern economy since the 1930s, has been particularly neglected. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history...
The Third Reconstruction
How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.
Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions...
Gambling
Vegas, Birmingham, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A participant’s portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, from Harry Belafonte’s memoir of activism and entertainment, My Song.
Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 was one of the most segregated cities in America. It had segregated lunch counters, restrooms, and water fountains....
Ripples Of Hope
Great American Civil Rights Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., this is the first compilation of its kind, bringing together the most influential and important voices from two hundred years of America's struggle for civil rights, including essential speeches from leaders, both famous and obscure....
Manufacturing Hysteria
A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
A vital, engaging, and sometimes troubling story of modern America’s struggle to live up to its ideals.
In this ambitious and wide-ranging history, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to World War I and its anti-German hysteria through the September 11 attacks and Arizona’s current anti-immigration...
by Robert Jefferson Norrell
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Bringing us close to the complex history of the civil rights movement in the American South—the currents that involved thousands of communities and millions of individual lives—this book looks deeply into the experiences of a single Alabama town, Tuskegee, and its surrounding Macon County. It...
Dividing Lines
Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
With this bold offering from two decades of research, J. Mills Thornton III presents the story of the civil rights movement from the perspective of community-municipal history at the grassroots level. Thornton demonstrates that the movement had powerful local sources in its three birth cities—Montgomery,...
Answering the Call
An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
“Jones, a trailblazing African American judge, delivers an urgently needed perspective on American history . . . [A] passionate and informative account” (Booklist, starred review).
Answering the Call is an extraordinary eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality...
Civil Rights
RHETORIC OR REALITY
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which...
Watching Brief
reflections on human rights, law, and justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AHRC'S ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS MEDALS AND AWARDS
The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen a sharp decline in respect for human rights and the international rule of law. The legal conventions of the new realpolitik seem to owe more to Guantanamo than Geneva.
Australia...
A Stone of Hope
Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it...
Sweet Land of Liberty
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest...
Law and Order
Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Law and Order offers a valuable new study of the political and social history of the 1960s. It presents a sophisticated account of how the issues of street crime and civil unrest enhanced the popularity of conservatives, eroded the credibility of liberals, and transformed the landscape of American...
by Jamie J. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This book gives readers a comprehensive introduction to the topic of the Civil Rights Movement—arguably the most important political movement of the 20th century—and provides a road map for future study and historical inquiry.
• Provides a chronology that traces the unfolding of the subject...