The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights (Holt Thomas C.)(Pevná vazba)

The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights (Holt Thomas C.)(Pevná vazba)

The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral

The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance (Riches William)(Paperback)

Focusing on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945 to today, Riches shows how the black community used the institutions created by de jure segregation to overcome apartheid and white resistance. In this updated new edition, Riches incorporates the latest scholarship and provides a

The American Civil Rights Movement (Green Robert)(Paperback)

The American Civil Rights Movement: A documentary history collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents), the legal struggle in the courts, and governmental responses to civil rights issues - public

I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement (Estes Steve)(Paperback)

The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of

Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement (Southard Bjorn F. Stillion)(Pevná vazba)

The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of

Civil Rights for Beginners (Von Blum Paul)(Paperback)

A large swath of literature on the civil rights movement exists in the United States. Much of that literature focuses on the dramatic events of the African American resistance to Jim Crow and oppression from the mid 1950s through the early 1970s. Frequently, this material is scholarly and, at best,

Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Dittmer John)(Paperback)

Traces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of

Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band (Staebler Christian)(Paperback)

Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of West Coast rock 'n' roll pioneers Redbone. You've heard the hit song 'Come and Get Your Love' in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, but

Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Meacham Jon)(Paperback)

A literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present--including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis Editor Jon Meacham has chosen pieces by

Civil Rights Stories: Refugees and Homelands (Spilsbury Louise)(Pevná vazba)

An introductory book on the powerful topic of refugees throughout history and the ongoing struggles that refugees face as they flee their

Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives) (Jawando Danielle)(Pevná vazba)

Maya Angelou was an African-American author, poet, playwright and civil rights

Meet Miss Fancy (Latham Irene)(Pevná vazba)

A charming and significant story set prior to the Civil Rights Movement about a boy who finds a way to challenge segregation laws. Frank has always been obsessed with elephants. He loves their hosepipe trunks, tree stump feet, and swish-swish tails. So when Miss Fancy, the elephant, retires from

The Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath (Aiello Thomas)(Paperback)

In 1963, at the height of the southern civil rights movement, Cecil Brathwaite (1936-2014), under the pseudonym Cecil Elombe Brath, published a satire of Black leaders entitled Color Us Cullud! The American Negro Leadership Official Coloring Book. The book pillories a variety of Black leaders--from

March: Book Two (Lewis John)(Paperback)

Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, inspired by a 1950s comic book that helped prepare his own generation to join the struggle. Now,

Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights (Patterson Robert J.)(Paperback)

The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks fueled by resentment and reaction. African American artists responded with black approaches to expression that made history in their own time and

Pewabic Pottery: The American Arts and Crafts Movement Expressed in Clay (Brunk Thomas W.)(Pevná vazba)

Pewabic Pottery is a significant manifestation of the international Arts and Crafts movement in Michigan. As ceramic expert Martin Eidelberg points out in his introductory essay, it was also a striking example of the coterie of talented American female ceramists who broke with traditional norms,

Debate on Black Civil Rights in America (Verney Kevern)(Paperback / softback)

Once a neglected area, African American history is now the subject of extensive scholarly research. The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It

Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (Zamalin Alex)(Pevná vazba)

American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In

Short History of The American Civil War (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Citizen Woman: An Illustrated History of the Women's Movement (Gerhard Jane)(Pevná vazba)

The first illustrated history to celebrate women's struggle for equality around the globe. One hundred years ago American women fought for and won an equal voice at the ballot box with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. This happened thanks to the unrelenting activism of women in the US

From Prejudice to Pride: A History of LGBTQ+ Movement (Lam Amy)(Paperback)

A rare and inspiring retelling of the LGBTQ+ movement's struggle for civil

A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories (Collier-Thomas Bettye)(Pevná vazba)

A collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century through the Depression era. Back in print for the first time in over a decade, this landmark collection features writings from well-known writers and activists such as

Awakening - #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights (Stone Meighan)(Pevná vazba)

A groundbreaking account of the #MeToo movement in Brazil, China, Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt, Tunisia and

Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion (McGrogan David)(Pevná vazba)

This book describes the evolution of the human rights movement into a grand managerial project, rooted in compassion, with the aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. It argues that