Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Say It Loud!
Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Following Say It Plain, a collection of speeches that provides “a sweeping perspective on evolving issues of black identity in the struggle for equality” (Booklist).
In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, Say It Plain collected and transcribed speeches by...
by Marvin Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1997
The first book devoted to the history of African Americans in south Florida and their pivotal role in the growth and development of Miami, Black Miami in the Twentieth Century traces their triumphs, drudgery, horrors, and courage during the first 100 years of the city's history. Firsthand accounts...
The Day Freedom Died
The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town's ex-slaves and a white lawyer's historic battle to bring the perpretators to justice
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army...
From My Cold, Dead Hands
Charlton Heston and American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
Charlton Heston is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments and for his Academy Award--winning performance in the 1959 classic Ben-Hur. Throughout his long career, Heston used his cinematic status as a powerful moral force to effect social and...
by David Herbert Donald
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s penetrating analysis of the crisis of democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
In Liberty and Union, David Herbert Donald persuasively examines one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. With the same wit, eloquence, and willingness...
The End of Human Rights
Critical Thought at the Turn of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
The introduction of the Human Rights Act has led to an explosion in books on human rights, yet no sustained examination of their history and philosophy exists in the burgeoning literature. At the same time, while human rights have triumphed on the world stage as the ideology of postmodernity, our...
All the Laws but One
Civil Liberties in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In All the Laws but One, William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, provides an insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil liberties during wartime and illuminates the cases where presidents have suspended the law in the name of national security.
Abraham Lincoln,...
Engines of Liberty
The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
From the national legal director of the ACLU, an essential guidebook on standing up for fundamental civil liberties and resisting executive overreach -- named one of Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of the Year
What role do American citizens have in safeguarding our Constitution and...
by Elizabeth Hull
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
In the 2004 presidential election, 4,686,539 Americans—a population greater than the city of Los Angeles—were barred from the polls. In a country that has extended suffrage to virtually every other class of citizen, ex-felons are the sole segment of our population deemed unworthy to exercise what...
Red Power Rising
The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian...
Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly...
by Alexander Somek
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Originally the constitution was expected to express and channel popular sovereignty. It was the work of freedom, springing from and facilitating collective self-determination. After the Second World War this perspective changed: the modern constitution owes its authority not only to collective authorship,...
Human Rights, Power and Civic Action
Comparative analyses of struggles for rights in developing societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Human Rights, Power and Civic Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power, focusing on situations of poverty and oppression in developing countries. It is argued that the concept of power is a relatively neglected one in the study of rights-based...
Speechless
The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
A factory worker is fired because her boss disagrees with her political bumper sticker. A stockbroker feels pressure to resign from an employer who disapproves of his off-hours political advocacy. A flight attendant is grounded because her airline doesn't like what she's writing in her personal blog....