Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers : Reflections From the Deep South, 1964–1980
Kent Spriggs;Kent Spriggs
“Fascinating.... The kind of book you can open anywhere, maybe thumb back or forth a f...
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Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers : Reflections From the Deep South, 1964–1980
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 important law and lawyers were, and remain, in realizing the promise of full equality for all citizens.'--Kenneth W. Mack, author of Representing the Race'Filled with tales of ordinary people exhibiting extraordinary courage, Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers provides a penetrating and vital new perspective on one of the most turbulent and important periods in American history.'--Lawrence Goldstone, author of Inherently Unequal'Spriggs has performed a great service for future historians and for all of us by collecting the personal memories of lawyers who put their boots on the ground and their lives on the line in the Deep South during the tumultuous civil rights movement.'--James Blacksher, civil rights attorney, Birmingham, Alabama'The different voices are incredibly effective at both describing a harrowing series of events for the lawyers and allowing readers to hear how they interpreted those events in their own individual ways. A powerful work.'--Thomas Aiello, author of Jim Crow's Last Stand While bus boycotts, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience were the engine of the civil rights movement, the law provided context for these events. Lawyers played a key role amid profound political and social upheavals, vindicating clients and together challenging white supremacy. Here, in their own voices, twenty-six lawyers reveal the abuses they endured and the barriers they broke as they fought for civil rights . These eyewitness accounts provide unique windows into some of the most dramatic moments in civil rights history--the 1965 Selma March, the first civil judgment against the Ku Klux Klan, the creation of ballot access for African Americans in Alabama, and the 1968 Democratic Convention. The narratives depict attorney-client relationships extraordinary in their mutual trust and commitment to risk-taking. White and black, male and female, northern- and southern-born, these recruits in the battle for freedom helped shape a critical chapter of American history. Kent Spriggs, author of the two-volume Representing Plaintiffs in Title VII Actions, has been a civil rights lawyer for over fifty years. He practices in Tallahassee, Florida, where he was a city commissioner and mayor.
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African American lawyers--Southern States--History--20th century - Lawyers--Southern States--History--20th century - Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century - Civil rights workers--Southern States--History--20th century - African American civil rights workers--Southern States--History--20th century - African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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From Slavery to Civil Rights : On the Streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present
Hilary McLaughlin-Stonham;Hilary McLaughlin-Stonham
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From Slavery to Civil Rights : On the Streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present
2020; Vol. 00017
An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Author Fund. The history of Louisiana from slavery until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shows that unique influences within the state were responsible for a distinctive political and social culture. In New Orleans, the most populous city in the state, this was reflected in the conflict that arose on segregated streetcars that ran throughout the crescent city. This study chronologically surveys segregation on the streetcars from the antebellum period in which black stereotypes and justification for segregation were formed. It follows the political and social motivation for segregation through reconstruction to the integration of the streetcars and the white resistance in the 1950s while examining the changing political and social climate that evolved over the segregation era. It considers the shifting nature of white supremacy that took hold in New Orleans after the Civil War and how this came to be played out daily, in public, on the streetcars. The paternalistic nature of white supremacy is considered and how this was gradually replaced with an unassailable white supremacist atmosphere that often restricted the actions of whites, as well as blacks, and the effect that this had on urban transport. Streetcars became the'theatres'for black resistance throughout the era and this survey considers the symbolic part they played in civil rights up to the present day.
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African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans - Segregation in transportation--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century - Segregation in transportation--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century - African Americans--Civil rights--Louisiana--New Orleans - Electric railroads--Cars--Louisiana--New Orleans--HistoryContent provider:
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Michael Capek;Michael Capek
In the face of injustice, people band together to work for change, and through their i...
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2014
In the face of injustice, people band together to work for change, and through their influence, what was once unthinkable becomes common. This title traces the history of the civil rights movement in the United States , including the key players, watershed moments, and legislative battles that have driven social change. Iconic images and informative sidebars accompany compelling text that follows the movement from the Reconstruction era through the movement's great successes in the 1960s and up to the challenges that still face the country today. Features include a glossary, selected bibliography, Web sites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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African Americans--Civil rights--Juvenile literature - Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Juvenile literatureContent provider:
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The Sword and the Shield : The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Peniel E. Joseph;Peniel E. Joseph
This “landmark” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times–bestselling author of How to Be an Ant...
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The Sword and the Shield : The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
2020
This “landmark” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times–bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights , the sword versus the shield. The struggle for Black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American democracy, the movement's militancy is either vilified or erased outright. In The Sword and the Shield, Peniel E. Joseph upends these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. Now updated with a new afterword, this is a strikingly revisionist account of Malcolm and Martin, the era they defined, and their lasting impact on today's Movement for Black Lives.
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Political activists--United States--Biography - African American civil rights workers--Biography - Civil rights workers--United States--Biography - African American political activists--Biography - Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century - African American clergy--Biography - Clergy--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Gettysburg 1963 : Civil Rights , Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America's Most Famous Small Town
Jill Ogline Titus;Jill Ogline Titus
The year 1963 was unforgettable for Americans. In the midst of intense Cold War turmoi...
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Gettysburg 1963 : Civil Rights , Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America's Most Famous Small Town
2021
The year 1963 was unforgettable for Americans. In the midst of intense Cold War turmoil and the escalating struggle for Black freedom, the United States also engaged in a nationwide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Civil War. Commemorative events centered on Gettysburg, site of the best-known, bloodiest, and most symbolically charged battle of the conflict. Inevitably, the centennial of Lincoln's iconic Gettysburg Address received special focus, pressed into service to help the nation understand its present and define its future--a future that would ironically include another tragic event days later with the assassination of another American president. In this fascinating work, Jill Ogline Titus uses centennial events in Gettysburg to examine the history of political, social, and community change in 1960s America. Examining the experiences of political leaders, civil rights activists, preservation-minded Civil War enthusiasts, and local residents, Titus shows how the era's deep divisions thrust Gettysburg into the national spotlight and ensured that white and Black Americans would define the meaning of the battle, the address, and the war in dramatically different ways.
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Collective memory--United States - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Centennial celebrations, etcContent provider:
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Revolutionary Feminists : The Women's Liberation Movement in Seattle
Barbara Winslow;Barbara Winslow
Revolutionary Feminists tells the story of the radical women's liberation movement in ...
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Revolutionary Feminists : The Women's Liberation Movement in Seattle
2023
Revolutionary Feminists tells the story of the radical women's liberation movement in Seattle in the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of a founding member, Barbara Winslow. Drawing on her collection of letters, pamphlets, and photographs as well as newspaper accounts, autobiographies, and interviews, Winslow emphasizes the vital role that Black women played in the women's liberation movement to create meaningful intersectional coalitions in an overwhelmingly White city. Winslow brings the voices and visions of those she calls the movement's “ecstatic utopians” to life. She charts their short-term successes and lasting achievements, from organizing women at work and campaigning for subsidized childcare to creating women-centered rape crisis centers, health clinics, and self-defense programs. The Seattle movement was essential to winning the first popular vote in the United States to liberalize abortion laws. Despite these achievements, Winslow critiques the failure of the movement's White members to listen to Black, Latina, Indigenous, and Asian American and Pacific Islander feminist activists. Reflecting on the Seattle movement's accomplishments and shortcomings, Winslow offers a model for contemporary feminist activism.
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Feminists--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century - Women political activists--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century - African American feminists--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century - African American women political activists--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century - Women's rights--United States--History--20th century--Sources - Feminism--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century--Sources - Civil rights movements--Washington (State)--SeatContent provider:
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The Right to Vote
Duchess Harris, JD, PhD;Kari A. Cornell;Duchess Harris, JD, PhD;Kari A. Cor...
The Right to Vote examines how voting rights have evolved throughout the history of th...
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The Right to Vote
2018
The Right to Vote examines how voting rights have evolved throughout the history of the United States . This title looks at the reasons behind limiting the right to vote, the suffrage movements of various groups, and current debates surrounding voting issues in the country. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Elections--United States--Juvenile literature - Voting--United States--History--Juvenile literature - Women--Suffrage--United States--History - Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Juvenile literature - Women--Political activity--United States--Juvenile literatureContent provider:
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My Race to Freedom : A Life in the Civil Rights Movement
Gwendolyn Patton;Gwendolyn Patton
Gwendolyn Patton's parents moved north from Alabama to Detroit in the Great Migration,...
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My Race to Freedom : A Life in the Civil Rights Movement
2019
Gwendolyn Patton's parents moved north from Alabama to Detroit in the Great Migration, ensuring that their children would avoid the worst that the post-Reconstruction South had to offer. As a young woman, Patton would return to Montgomery, Alabama, just in time for the civil rights movement, becoming engaged in protests and political demonstrations as a student at Tuskegee University. Shocked by the subjugation of black Americans in the South, she would participate in landmark civil rights events, such as the Selma-to-Montgomery March led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. My Race to Freedom is the story of how Patton's eyes were opened to the injustices of the Jim Crow South and how one young woman helped make equality a reality for Southern African Americans.
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Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography - African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography - African American women civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--BiographyContent provider:
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Compensation for Wrongful Convictions : A Comparative Perspective
Wojciech Jasiński;Karolina Kremens;Wojciech Jasiński;Karolina Kremens
This book presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of the substantive and procedu...
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Compensation for Wrongful Convictions : A Comparative Perspective
2023
This book presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of the substantive and procedural aspects of compensation for wrongful convictions in European countries and the USA , as well as the standard derived from the case law of the European Court of Human Rights . The collection draws comparative conclusions as to the similarities and differences between selected jurisdictions and assesses the effectiveness of the national compensation schemes. This enables the designing of an optimum model of compensation, offering accessibility and effectiveness to the victims of miscarriages of justice and being acceptable to jurisdictions based on common law, and civil law traditions, as well as inquisitorial and adversarial types of criminal process. Moreover, the discussion of the minimum European standard as established in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights enables readers to identify how the Strasbourg Court can contribute to strengthening the compensation scheme. The book will be essential reading for students, academics and policymakers working in the areas of criminal law and procedure.
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Government liability - Compensation for judicial error - Reparation (Criminal justice) - Compensation for judicial error--United States - Compensation for judicial error--EuropeContent provider:
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White Fright : The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America's Racist History
Jane Dailey;Jane Dailey
A major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of ...
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White Fright : The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America's Racist History
2020
A major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.In White Fright, historian Jane Dailey brilliantly reframes our understanding of the long struggle for African American rights . Those fighting against equality were not motivated only by a sense of innate superiority, as is often supposed, but also by an intense fear of black sexuality.In this urgent investigation, Dailey examines how white anxiety about interracial sex and marriage found expression in some of the most contentious episodes of American history since Reconstruction: in battles over lynching, in the policing of black troops'behavior overseas during World War II, in the violent outbursts following the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and in the tragic story of Emmett Till. The question was finally settled -- as a legal matter -- with the Court's definitive 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia, which declared interracial marriage a'fundamental freedom.'Placing sex at the center of our civil rights history, White Fright offers a bold new take on one of the most confounding threads running through American history.
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African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions - White people--Southern States--Attitudes - African Americans--Sexual behavior--Public opinion - Miscegenation--Southern States--History--20th century - Interracial marriage--Southern States--History--20th century - White supremacy movements--United States--History--20th century - Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century - African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Poll Power : The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South
Evan Faulkenbury;Evan Faulkenbury
The civil rights movement required money. In the early 1960s, after years of grassroot...
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Poll Power : The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South
2019
The civil rights movement required money. In the early 1960s, after years of grassroots organizing, civil rights activists convinced nonprofit foundations to donate in support of voter education and registration efforts. One result was the Voter Education Project (VEP), which, starting in 1962, showed far-reaching results almost immediately and organized the groundwork that eventually led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In African American communities across the South, the VEP catalyzed existing campaigns; it paid for fuel, booked rallies, bought food for volunteers, and paid people to canvass neighborhoods. Despite this progress, powerful conservatives in Congress weaponized the federal tax code to undercut the important work of the VEP. Though local power had long existed in the hundreds of southern towns and cities that saw organized civil rights action, the VEP was vital to converting that power into political motion. Evan Faulkenbury offers a much-needed explanation of how philanthropic foundations, outside funding, and tax policy shaped the southern black freedom movement.
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Civil rights movements--Southern States - Voter registration--Southern StatesContent provider:
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The Purpose of Power : How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
Alicia Garza;Alicia Garza
An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of o...
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The Purpose of Power : How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
2020
An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country's leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter “Excellent and provocative... a gateway [to] urgent debates.”—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New YorkerNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Time • Marie Claire • Kirkus ReviewsIn 2013, Alicia Garza wrote what she called “a love letter to Black people” on Facebook, in the aftermath of the acquittal of the man who murdered seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. Garza wrote: Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. With the speed and networking capacities of social media, #BlackLivesMatter became the hashtag heard'round the world. But Garza knew even then that hashtags don't start movements—people do. Long before #BlackLivesMatter became a rallying cry for this generation, Garza had spent the better part of two decades learning and unlearning some hard lessons about organizing. The lessons she offers are different from the “rules for radicals” that animated earlier generations of activists, and diverge from the charismatic, patriarchal model of the American civil rights movement. She reflects instead on how making room amongst the woke for those who are still awakening can inspire and activate more people to fight for the world we all deserve. This is the story of one woman's lessons through years of bringing people together to create change. Most of all, it is a new paradigm for change for a new generation of changemakers, from the mind and heart behind one of the most important movements of our time.
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African Americans--Civil rights--History--21st century - Political participation - Social movements - Black lives matter movement - Racism--United StatesContent provider:
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Black Against Empire : The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Joshua Bloom;Waldo E. Martin Jr;Joshua Bloom;Waldo E. Martin Jr
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of ...
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Black Against Empire : The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
2016
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities. In Oakland, California, in 1966 , community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the United States , the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S . government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism. In the face of intense repression, the Party flourished, becoming the center of a revolutionary movement with offices in sixty-eight U.S . cities and powerful allies around the world.Black against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions, such as why so many young black people across the country risked their lives for the revolution, why the Party grew most rapidly during the height of repression, and why allies abandoned the Party at its peak of influence. Bold, engrossing, and richly detailed, this book cuts through the mythology and obfuscation, revealing the political dynamics that drove the explosive growth of this revolutionary movement and its disastrous unraveling. Informed by twelve years of meticulous archival research, as well as familiarity with most of the former Party leadership and many rank-and-file members, this book is the definitive history of one of the greatest challenges ever posed to American state power.
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Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century - African Americans--Politics and government--20th century - African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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In the Name of Emmett Till : How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
Robert H. Mayer;Robert H. Mayer
The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous exampl...
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In the Name of Emmett Till : How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
2021
The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. These children, however, would rise up against the culture that made Till's death possible. From the violent Woolworth's lunch-counter sit-ins in Jackson to the school walkouts of McComb, the young people of Mississippi picketed, boycotted, organized, spoke out, and marched, working to reveal the vulnerability of black bodies and the ugly nature of the world they lived in. These children changed that world.In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Tore Down Yesterday and Showed Us Tomorrow weaves together the riveting tales of those young women and men of Mississippi, figures like Brenda Travis, the Ladner sisters, and Sam Block who risked their lives to face down vicious Jim Crow segregation. Readers also discover the adults who guided the young people, elders including Medgar Evers, Robert Moses, and Fannie Lou Hamer.This inspiring new book of history for young adults from award-winning author Robert H. Mayer is an unflinching portrayal of life in the segregated South and the bravery of young people who fought that system. As the United States still reckons with racism and inequality, the activists working In the Name of Emmett Till can serve as models of activism for young people today.
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Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--20th century--Juvenile literature - African American student movements--Mississippi--History--20th century--Juvenile literature - African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--History--20th century--Juvenile literature - African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--History--20th century--Juvenile literature - African American youth--Mississippi--Social conditions--20th century--Juvenile literatureContent provider:
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Integration Now : Alexander V. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education
William P. Hustwit;William P. Hustwit
Recovering the history of an often-ignored landmark Supreme Court case, William P. Hus...
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Integration Now : Alexander V. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education
2019
Recovering the history of an often-ignored landmark Supreme Court case, William P. Hustwit assesses the significant role that Alexander v. Holmes (1969) played in integrating the South's public schools. Although Brown v. Board of Education has rightly received the lion's share of historical analysis, its ambiguous language for implementation led to more than a decade of delays and resistance by local and state governments. Alexander v. Holmes required'integration now,'and less than a year later, thousands of children were attending integrated schools. Hustwit traces the progression of the Alexander case to show how grassroots activists in Mississippi operated hand in glove with lawyers and judges involved in the litigation. By combining a narrative of the larger legal battle surrounding the case and the story of the local activists who pressed for change, Hustwit offers an innovative, well-researched account of a definitive legal decision that reaches from the cotton fields of Holmes County to the chambers of the Supreme Court in Washington.
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School integration--Law and legislation--United States--History--20th century - School integration--Mississippi--Holmes County--History--20th century - African Americans--Civil rights--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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The Schoolhouse Gate : Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
Justin Driver;Justin Driver
A Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors'ChoiceA...
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The Schoolhouse Gate : Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
2018
A Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors'ChoiceAn award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school students, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compulsory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer—these are but a few of the cultural anxieties dividing American society that the Supreme Court has addressed in elementary and secondary schools. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation. Justin Driver maintains that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated its responsibility for protecting students'constitutional rights and risked transforming public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court's decisions in recent decades would conclude that the following actions taken by educators pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporal punishment on students without any procedural protections, searching students and their possessions without probable cause in bids to uncover violations of school rules, random drug testing of students who are not suspected of wrongdoing, and suppressing student speech for the viewpoint it espouses. Taking their cue from such decisions, lower courts have upheld a wide array of dubious school actions, including degrading strip searches, repressive dress codes, draconian “zero tolerance” disciplinary policies, and severe restrictions on off-campus speech. Driver surveys this legal landscape with eloquence, highlights the gripping personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and warns that the repeated failure to honor students'rights threatens our basic constitutional order. This magisterial book will make it impossible to view American schools—or America itself—in the same way again.
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Educational law and legislation--United States - Students--Civil rights--United States - Constitutional law--United States--Social aspectContent provider:
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How State Courts Apply Lawrence v. Texas in Civil Contexts: A Mixed-Methods Content Analysis of Two Decades of Cases
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Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality. Annual, 2023, Vol. 32, p1, 110 p.
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Black Power : Radical Politics and African American Identity
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar;Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
Exploring the profound impact of the Black Power movement on African Americans.Outstan...
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Black Power : Radical Politics and African American Identity
2019
Exploring the profound impact of the Black Power movement on African Americans.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceIn the 1960s and 70s, the two most important black nationalist organizations, the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party, gave voice and agency to the most economically and politically isolated members of black communities outside the South. Though vilified as fringe and extremist, these movements proved to be formidable agents of influence during the civil rights era, ultimately giving birth to the Black Power movement.Drawing on deep archival research and interviews with key participants, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar reconsiders the commingled stories of—and popular reactions to—the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, and mainstream civil rights leaders. Ogbar finds that many African Americans embraced the seemingly contradictory political agenda of desegregation and nationalism. Indeed, black nationalism, he demonstrates, was far more favorably received among African Americans than historians have previously acknowledged. It engendered minority pride and influenced the political, cultural, and religious spheres of mainstream African American life for the decades to come.This updated edition of Ogbar's classic work contains a new preface that describes the book's genesis and links the Black Power movement to the Black Lives Matter movement. A thoroughly updated essay on sources contains a comprehensive review of Black Power–related scholarship. Ultimately, Black Power reveals a black freedom movement in which the ideals of desegregation through nonviolence and black nationalism marched side by side.
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Radicalism--United States--History--20th century - Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century - Black power--United States--History--20th century - African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century - African Americans--Politics and government--20th century - African Americans--Race identity - Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Winning While Losing : Civil Rights , The Conservative Movement and the Presidency From Nixon to Obama
Kenneth Osgood;Derrick E. White;Kenneth Osgood;Derrick E. White
During the four decades separating the presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Barack Ob...
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Winning While Losing : Civil Rights , The Conservative Movement and the Presidency From Nixon to Obama
2013
During the four decades separating the presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Barack Obama, the meaning of civil rights has become increasingly complex. Civil rights leaders made great strides in breaking down once-impermeable racial barriers, but they also suffered many political setbacks in their attempts to remedy centuries of discrimination and oppression as race and the ascendancy of conservatism in America became inextricably intertwined.This pioneering collection of essays chronicles the ways in which presidential politics have shaped black experiences in the aftermath of the civil rights legislation passed in the 1960s, from the experimental and transitional nature of Richard Nixon's policies and the transformative aspect of Ronald Reagan's presidency to the constraints that Reagan's legacy placed on Bill Clinton and the continued efforts to disenfranchise black and poor people in the twenty-first century.
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African Americans--Civil rights - Presidents--United States - African Americans--Social conditions - Conservatism--United States - Racism--Political aspects--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Strategic Sisterhood : The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
Rebecca Tuuri;Rebecca Tuuri
When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy ...
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Strategic Sisterhood : The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
2018
When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her own women's conference for the very next day. Defying the march's male organizers, Height helped harness the womanpower waiting in the wings. Height's careful tactics and quiet determination come to the fore in this first history of the NCNW, the largest black women's organization in the United States at the height of the civil rights , Black Power, and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s.Offering a sweeping view of the NCNW's behind-the-scenes efforts to fight racism, poverty, and sexism in the late twentieth century, Rebecca Tuuri examines how the group teamed with U.S . presidents, foundations, and grassroots activists alike to implement a number of important domestic development and international aid projects. Drawing on original interviews, extensive organizational records, and other rich sources, Tuuri's work narrates the achievements of a set of seemingly moderate, elite activists who were able to use their personal, financial, and social connections to push for change as they facilitated grassroots, cooperative, and radical activism.
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African American women--Societies and clubs--History--20th century - African American women--Civil rights--History--20th century - Black power--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg : A Life in American History
Nancy Hendricks;Nancy Hendricks
This book offers both a biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, only the second-ever woman a...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg : A Life in American History
2021
This book offers both a biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, only the second-ever woman appointed to the Supreme Court, and a historical analysis of her impact.Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life in American History explores Ginsburg's path to holding the highest position in the judicial branch of U.S . government as a Supreme Court justice for almost three decades. Readers will learn about the choices, challenges, and triumphs that this remarkable American has lived through, and about the values that shape the United States .Ginsburg, sometimes referred to as'The Notorious RBG'or'RBG'was a professor of law, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, an advocate for women's rights , and more, before her tenure as Supreme Court justice. She has weighed in on decisions, such as Bush v. Gore (2000); King v. Burwell (2015); and Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018), that continue to guide lawmaking and politics. Ginsburg's crossover to stardom was unprecedented, though perhaps not surprising. Where some Americans see the Supreme Court as a decrepit institution, others see Ginsburg as an embodiment of the timeless principles on which America was founded.
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Fight Against Discrimination. Human Dignity in American Legal Tradition
Michał Urbańczyk;Michał Urbańczyk
The book is a collection of essays designed to take the reader on a journey through Am...
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Fight Against Discrimination. Human Dignity in American Legal Tradition
2022; Vol. 00019
The book is a collection of essays designed to take the reader on a journey through American law and the American political and legal tradition. Their common ground is to trace the influence of the idea of human dignity on the American system of civil rights protection and to characterize more than two centuries of struggle against discrimination against various groups and minorities. Beginning with the views of the Founding Fathers and the creation of the first modern republic, through the struggles against slavery and gender discrimination, to the 20th century challenges of abortion, euthanasia, and the legalization of same-sex marriage. Although human dignity does not appear in the Constitution or in constitutional amendments, the influence of this idea on the legal order has been, is, and will continue to be considerable. Indeed, along with liberty, equality, and justice, it is one of the core values that underlie the political, legal, and judicial system of the United States of America. The reader will find in the book both reflections on political and legal thought, as well as a number of judgments of the Supreme Court of the United States , which established the most important legal principles expanding the sphere of individual freedoms and protecting civil rights . The reader will also find key figures in American history, such as revolutionary columnist Thomas Paine, Supreme Court Justice James Wilson, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass
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African Americans and the First Amendment : The Case for Liberty and Equality
Timothy C. Shiell;Timothy C. Shiell
2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleAfrican Americans and the First Amendment is the...
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African Americans and the First Amendment : The Case for Liberty and Equality
2019
2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleAfrican Americans and the First Amendment is the first book to explore in detail the relationship between African Americans and our'first freedoms,'especially freedom of speech. Timothy C. Shiell utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate that a strong commitment to civil liberty and to racial equality are mutually supportive, as they share an opposition to orthodoxy and a commitment to greater inclusion and participation. This crucial connection is evidenced throughout US history, from the days of colonial and antebellum slavery to Jim Crow: in the landmark US Supreme Court decision in 1937 freeing the black communist Angelo Herndon; in the struggles and victories of the civil rights movement, from the late 1930s to the late'60s; and in the historical and modern debates over hate speech restrictions. Liberty and equality can conflict in individual cases, Shiell argues, but there is no fundamental conflict between them. Robust First Amendment values protect and encourage demands for racial equality while weak First Amendment values, in contrast, lead to censorship and a chilling of demands for racial equality.
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African Americans--Civil rights - Freedom of speech--United StatesContent provider:
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THE JACKIE ROBINSONS OF THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY: EXAMINING THE APPOINTMENT OF THE FIRST BLACK FEDERAL JUDGES.
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University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class. Fall2022, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p228-288. 61p.
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University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class. Fall2022, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p228-288. 61p.
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi;Ibram X. Kendi
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped ...
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How to Be an Antiracist
2019
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface.“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus ReviewsAntiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
