Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Anthony Amatrudo, Leslie William Blake
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
We now live in a world which thinks through the legislative implications of criminal justice with one eye on human rights. Human Rights and the Criminal Justice System provides comprehensive coverage of human rights as it relates to the contemporary criminal justice system. As well as being a significant...
Emerging Areas of Human Rights in the 21st Century
The Role of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
This book includes a set of studies and reflections that have emerged since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Encompassing a number of human rights, such as the right to environmental protection, the right to humanitarian aid, and the right to democratic governance,...
Contemporary Human Rights Challenges
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Continuing Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was drafted by the UN Commission on Human Rights in the aftermath of the World War II in an attempt to address the wrongs of the past and plan for a better future for all.
With contributions from President Jimmy Carter, UNESCO Secretary General...
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**If you’re both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a “new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness” (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor).
Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make a difference? How...
The King Years
Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Taylor Branch, author of the acclaimed America in the King Years, introduces selections from the trilogy in clear context and gripping detail.
The King Years delivers riveting tales of everyday heroes who achieved miracles in constructive purpose and yet poignantly fell short. Here is the full...
The Hollow Hope
Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald Rosenberg’s critics—not to mention his supporters—have spent nearly two decades debating the arguments he first put forward in The Hollow Hope. With this substantially expanded second edition...
The Burglary
The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and...
The Invisible Line
A Secret History of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
"The Invisible Line" shines light on one of the most important, but too often hidden, aspects of American history and culture. Sharfstein's narrative of three families negotiating America's punishing racial terrain is a must read for all who are interested in the construction of race in...
The Chicago Freedom Movement
Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership...
Eyes on the Prize
America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v*. the Board of Education* case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series.
The Good Man
The Civil War's "Christian General" and His Fight for Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Gen.O.O. Howard, the white man from Maine for whom Howard University, the leading university for African-Americans, was named, was W.T. Sherman's principal deputy in the march across the South and later took charge of the federal government's Reconstruction efforts. Though Reconstruction failed, Howard...
Count Them One by One
Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when, in 1961, the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd. While thirty percent of the county's residents were black, only twelve black persons were on its voting rolls....
The Voting Rights War
The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
The Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legalized segregation in 1896 through...
by Howard Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all black women’s Spelman College, Zinn was an outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights movement....