Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Cradle of Freedom
Alabama and the Movement That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s. While exceptional leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis, and others rose up from the ranks and carved their places...
Praying for Sheetrock
A Work of Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded all the power, controlling everything...
Shaping Race Policy
The United States in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Shaping Race Policy investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing the United States today: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era. Unlike other books on the topic, it is comparative, examining American developments alongside parallel histories of...
Suspicion Nation
The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post-racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen-year-old boy walking to a friend’s...
Never Too Late
A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evars Case
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2001
In June 12, 1963, Mississippi's fast-rising NAACP leader Medgar Evers was gunned down by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith. Beckwith escaped conviction twice at the hands of all-white Southern juries, and his crime went unpunished for more than three decades. Now, from Bobby DeLaughter,...
Make No Law
The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
A crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis.
The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech,...
by Michael J. LaMonica
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Join Michael LaMonica, author of French Revolutions For Beginners, as he takes you on a journey through the ins and outs of an amendment that means so much more than just freedom of speech. First Amendment For Beginners will explore some of the biggest cases ever to come before the Supreme Court...
Selma, Lord, Selma
Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to organize non-violent demonstrations against discriminatory voting laws. Selma, Lord, Selma is their firsthand account of the events from that turbulent...
"Thou, Dear God"
Prayers That Open Hearts and Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
"Thou, Dear God" is the first and only collection of sixty-eight prayers by Martin Luther King, Jr. Arranged thematically in six parts--with prayers for spiritual guidance, special occasions, times of adversity, times of trial, uncertain times, and social justice--Baptist minister and King...
by Roberta Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2015: “A riveting account of a watershed moment in our history.”—President Bill Clinton
Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and...
Defending Faith
The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2017
When, in Obergefell v. Hodges, the US Supreme Court held that bans on same-sex marriage violate the Constitution, Christian conservative legal organizations (CCLOs) decried the ruling. Foreseeing an “assault against Christians,” Liberty Counsel president Mat Staver declared, “We are entering...
Where Do We Go from Here
Chaos or Community?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, he lays out his thoughts, plans, and...
Advancing the Ball
Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Following the NFL's desegregation in 1946, opportunities became increasingly plentiful for African American players--but not African American coaches. Although Major League Baseball and the NBA made progress in this regard over the years, the NFL's head coaches were almost exclusively white up until...
Justice for Ella
A Story That Needed to Be Told
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Based on actual events from Mississippis Civil Rights Movement, Justice for Ella is a story of two womenone black, one whitewho fought and won against seemingly insurmountable meanness. For Ella Gaston and Jewell McMahan, the fight was about justice, in a time and place when it was rarely bestowed...