Federal Civil Rights

Reducere. As the first comprehensive study of one state's federal district courts during the long civil rights movement, The Slow Undoing argues for a recons...

In the latest edition of this book, authors Rosalie Berger Levinson and Ivan E. Bodensteiner provide a more comprehensive overview of Post-Civil Wa...

Reducere. A deep dive into the politics of the Civil Rights Era, including the passing of new laws and the presidential responses to protest. A terrific way ...

Reducere. What is Section 1983?"Section 1983" refers to 42 U.S.C. 1983, the federal statute that enables you to file a civil action for deprivation of consti...

The Civil Rights Act of 1960 attempted to rectify loopholes in the 1957 Civil Rights Act that had enabled southern states to continue disenfranchis...

Reducere. DescriptionIn June 1964, Neshoba County, Mississippi, provided the setting for one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era: the Klan-o...

Regulations governing highly diverse welfare programs and projects including family assistance, child support enforcement, the Commission on Civil ...

The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100, 000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal I...

Reducere. This is a story of a great and noble man. A man of courage and determination who was willing to face arrest for leaving the government's reservatio...

Chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth ce...

Reducere. The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off...

Reducere. In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segre...

Title 34 presents regulations governing education related activities and programs. General provisions, civil rights, elementary and secondary educa...

Reducere. In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segre...

Regulations governing highly diverse welfare programs and projects including family assistance, child support enforcement, the Commission on Civil ...

Title 34 presents regulations governing education related activities and programs. General provisions, civil rights, elementary and secondary educa...

Reducere. Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation ...

Reducere. A deep dive into the period after the Civil War, when the country struggled to both heal and find a way forward. An essential read for students age...

Reducere. A deep dive into the period after the Civil War, when the country struggled to both heal and find a way forward. An essential read for students age...

Reducere. A young nun shocked by the Birmingham church bombing in 1963 begins to wake up to the horrors of racism on her first teaching assignment in the dee...

Reducere. In 1967, Reies Lopez Tijerina led an armed takeover of a New Mexico courthouse in the name of land rights for disenfranchised Spanish-speaking loca...

Reducere. DescriptionDomestic Terrorist or American Patriot? Cliven Bundy The Federal Government treats him as a domestic terrorist.The media characterizes h...

Pillars of Justice explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through moving accounts of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world...

Reducere. In April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John BostonAuthor: Daniel E. ManvillePrisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual, in its much-anticipated fourth edition, is an ...

Reducere. In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring a...

DescriptionA rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today's tumultuous times From acclaimed leg...

Reducere. Four-time mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry, Jr. tells his shocking and courageous life story, beginning in the cotton fields in Mississippi to...

Inspired by the recent wave of activism led by young people fighting for racial justice, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, wa...

Since the first day after the tragedy was announced, controversy has surrounded the death of rap and cultural icon Tupac Shakur. In this work, pree...

Reducere. This is the best nonfiction book I ever readEver wondered: where do people have sex when occupying a federal building?how the disability rights mov...

DescriptionThe Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three ...

This casebook is the outcome of the P.A.T.C.H. Law Program of the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District in New York. The casebook pro...

Reducere. The occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, focused the attention of the world on Native A...

Reducere. On the one hand, we rightly blame fast food for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, and fast food restaurants are viewe...

Reducere. The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison populati...

Reducere. America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentimen...

Reducere. To understand fully the complexities of Thurgood Marshall's work as a practicing lawyer, civil rights advocate for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, fe...

DescriptionBeginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. ...

Based on the Harvard thesis of DuBois-one of the great black intellectuals of American history-and incorporating analyses of national, state, and c...

Reducere. Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound, ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war's meaning has shifted over time and ...

Reducere. Racism has permeated the workings of the U.S. Constitution since ratification. At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, supporters of slavery ensured...

Reducere. In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Terri LeClercqIllustrator: Patrick HubikIllustrator: Shawn Van BriesenPrison Grievances: when to write, how to write (Capti...

Reducere. In this history, Helen C. Roundtree traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with Englis...

Reducere. Was Abraham Lincoln influenced by communism when the Union condemned the rights of Southern states to express their independence? It's shocking to ...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring America's Early Republic, the pastoral villages and forests of Vermont were anything but peaceful. Conflict raged along the Canad...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the most misunderstood periods in American history, Reconstruction remains relevant today because its central issue -- the role o...

Reducere. Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent ...

Contributor(s): Author: Loch K. JohnsonAll democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise re...

Reducere. In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child D...

DescriptionRecent events--the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, am...

Reducere. This remarkable, hard-to-find resource is an exhaustive compilation of state laws and local ordinances in effect in 1950 that mandated racial segre...

Reducere. A decade after his release from federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis-ex-president of the Confederacy, the "Southern Lincoln, " popularly...

Reducere. A decade after his release from Federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis--ex-President of the Confederacy, the "Southern Lincoln, " popularl...

Reducere. Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self-rule. In t...

Reducere. In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from ...

Robert Dallek's masterful John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life was a number one national bestseller, and it remains the most widely read one-volume ...

Reducere. Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential. -- Ibram X. Kendi Required reading to understand the context of this pandemic. -- Jelani Cobb Carte Blan...

Reducere. A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s--and shows ...

Reducere. The 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule was the most significant federal effort to increase equality of access to place-based resources...

Reducere. Most Americans--even those with significant disability--want to live in their homes and communities. Unpaid family members or friends often work as...

Reducere. William Powell wrote The Anarchist Cookbook in 1969 at the age of nineteen. It included everything from making bombs to brewing LSD in the bathroom...

DescriptionFrom a mother, role model, and civil rights veteran, an inspiring gift of love to a child in his darkest hour. Jacqueline Jackson promis...

A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum ...

Reducere. The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of ...