Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Freedom Riders
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this...
Behind the Dream
The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
"I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly established himself as one of the greatest orators...
by Dorothy Sterling
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1994
“[The author] tells this remarkable story with honesty and compassion. Readers will find a wealth of new information not only about Kelley’s outstanding contribution to abolitionism but about the movements to bring about the end of slavery and to advance the cause of women.” —Mari Jo Buhle,...
Scapegoating Islam: Intolerance, Security, and the American Muslim
Intolerance, Security, and the American Muslim
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Exploring the experience of Muslims in America following 9/11, this book assesses how anti-Muslim bias within the U.S. government and the larger society undermines American security and democracy.
• Provides a history of Muslim experience in the United States up to September 11
•...
Winning Marriage
The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits—and Won
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
In this updated, paperback edition of Winning Marriage, Marc Solomon, a veteran leader in the movement for marriage equality, gives the reader a seat at the strategy-setting and decision-making table in the campaign to win and protect the freedom to marry. With depth and grace he reveals the inner...
Driving While Black
Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxi Cabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back if You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A practical handbook for people who want to be safe and do something.
Racial profiling does happen. And while cases where victims find themselves looking down the barrel of a policeman's gun make the six o'clock news, dozens of less extreme, yet troubling, examples occur every day. Cabs that...
by Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. DALLAS 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city-and a nation.
In the months and weeks...
Stokely Speaks
From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism....
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama’s rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive...
Redeeming the Dream
The Case for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
“Breathtakingly inspiring.” —Laurence H. Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
When advocates for marriage equality sought to challenge California’s notorious Proposition 8, they were fortunate to have the support of two of the nation’s preeminent lawyers, David...
No Fear
A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Retracing the steps of the first civil rights and whistleblower act of the 21st century, this chronicle follows young, black, MIT-educated social scientist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, shortly after she landed her dream job at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The account illustrates how the author...
by Rob Clewley
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
A collection of political views from a liberal point of view. This book covers topics from gun control to civil rights and economic difficulties that many Americans face. This book is the first of ten from the author and is the one that got the whole America Views From the Left franchise off the ground as a podcast and blog would soon follow.
1000 Lashes
Because I Say What I Think
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
"Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear, mild, nuanced, but clear. His examination of his culture is perceptive and rigorous. Of course he must be saved from the dreadful sentence against him and the appalling conditions of his imprisonment. But he must also be read, so that...
Sons of Mississippi
A Story of Race and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in *Life magazine *or that it will become an icon of its era. The year is 1962, and these...