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Civil Rights (English)
American history has been marked, is still being marked, by determined efforts to expand the scope and inclusiveness of civil rights. The Civil Rights collection items represent the timeline of American civil rights and support the programming in the field of civil society, civil rights, and human rights.
This collection contains: 35 books
Products inside this collection
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (English)
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights...
And Still I Rise: Black America since MLK (English)
The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and...
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (English)
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction " ... an essential and engaging look at...
Black Citizenship and Authenticity in the Civil Rights Movement (English)
This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that...
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners (English)
If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law? In By Hands Now...
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (English)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "An instant American classic and almost...
Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activism in the Community (English)
Much of the history of Mexican American educational reform efforts has focused on campaigns to...
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (English)
The 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams's celebrated account of the tumultuous early years...
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (English)
Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives...
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (English)
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil...
His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner): One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (English)
WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND LOS...
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope (English)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and...
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (English)
This "important and timely" (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine ) #1 New York Times bestseller examines...
King: a Life (English)
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A Washington Post and National Indie Bestseller "Supple,...
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) (English)
The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy is complete! Celebrate with this...
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (English)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER ONE...
Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America (English)
An unprecedented account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican-Americans...
Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past (English)
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record straight on the...
Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in The 1960s (English)
Two great social causes held center stage in American politics in the 1960s: the civil rights...
Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement (English)
Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-size magazine, became the "bible" for...
South to America: A Journey below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (English)
WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An...
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (English)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The...
The Civil Rights Movement (English)
Mark Newman outlines the range of white responses to the Civil Rights Movement and analyses both...
The Civil Rights Movement: a Very Short Introduction (English)
The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth...
The Jim Crow Encyclopedia: Greenwood Milestones in African American History (English)
Jim Crow refers to a set of laws in many states, predominantly in the South, after the end of...
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia (English)
As editor of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. , Dr. Clayborne Carson, with the assistance of...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (English)
Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first...
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (English)
2014 NAACP Image Award Winner- Outstanding Literary Work-Biography/Autobiography 2013 Letitia...
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels (English)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the...
The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century (English)
One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has...
They Called Us Enemy (English)
The New York Times bestselling graphic memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei returns in a...
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America (English)
National Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist 53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee-Outstanding...
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (English)
An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records...
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America (English)
From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham...
