Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Richard D. Kahlenberg, Moshe Z. Marvit
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
American society has grown dramatically more unequal over the past quarter century. The economic gains of American workers after World War II have slowly been eroded—in part because organized labor has gone from encompassing one-third of the private sector workers to less than one-tenth. One reason...
Winning While Losing
Civil Rights, The Conservative Movement and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
"Explor[es] the paradoxical nature of racial politics in the post–civil rights period. . . . Does us the service of detailing how different presidential administrations handled civil rights, complicating our understanding of the major themes that defined the era."--American Historical...
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
"Symposium: The Meaning of the Civil Rights Revolution" is, in effect, a new and extensive book of contemporary thought on civil rights. In February 2014, the Yale Law Journal held a symposium at Yale Law School marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the simultaneous...
Race, Labor, and Civil Rights
Griggs versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In 1966, thirteen black employees of the Duke Power Company's Dan River Plant in Draper, North Carolina, filed a lawsuit against the company challenging its requirement of a high school diploma or a passing grade on an intelligence test for internal transfer or promotion. In the groundbreaking decision...
Waking from the Dream
The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The author of A Stone of Hope, called “one of the three or four most important books on the civil rights movement” by The Atlantic Monthly, turns his attention to the years after Martin Luther King’s assassination—and provides a sweeping history of the struggle to keep the civil rights movement...
A History of Civil Rights Through Legislation: Constitutional Amendments, Laws, Supreme Court Decisions & Key Foreign Policy Acts
Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Complete Amendments, The Federalist Papers, Gettysburg Address, Voting Rights Act, Social Security Act, Loving v. Virginia and more
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This collection incorporates the crucial democratic principles on which our identity as Americans is based. From the Declaration of Independence to the Civil Rights Act of 1968, this edition contains 40 most important decisions and acts that shaped the legal system and democracy of the USA. Table...
by Phillip J. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Promises of justice and equality made in the U.S. Constitution, numerous Amendments, and decisions of the Supreme Court are hallmarks of American civil rights. Yet the realities of inequality remain facts of modern life for too many Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans, even though...
Rights Gone Wrong
How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt discrimination and prejudice. But how successful are they at combating the whole spectrum of social injustice-including conditions that aren't...
Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973
A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Focusing on four major civil rights groups, Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 documents how factions within the movement and sabotage from the federal government led to the gradual splintering of the Civil Rights Movement. Well-known historian...
Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers
Reflections from the Deep South, 1964–1980
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
“Fascinating. . . . The kind of book you can open anywhere, maybe thumb back or forth a few pages, and settle into a good story.”—USA Today "One of the great, largely unknown stories of American history. This volume is a wonderfully evocative demonstration of something often discounted--how...
Delaying the Dream
Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938-1965
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasize the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations...
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"
Michigan, 1948-1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic...
In Search of the Movement
The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
"Benjamin Hedin went looking for the civil rights movement's past, but he also ran smack into the present, which can suddenly look like the past and then just as suddenly look totally different. By bringing stirring people like Septima Clark into focus, Hedin does what good historians do, but...
Our Minds on Freedom
Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Traditionally, literature on the civil rights movement has highlighted the leadership of ministerial men and young black revolutionaries like the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and Malcolm X. Though recent studies have begun to explore female participation in the struggle for...