In Sullivan's Shadow: The Use and Abuse of Libel Law During the Long Civil Rights Struggle, Hardcover - Aimee Edmondson

For many years, the far right has sown public distrust in the media as a political strategy, weaponizing libel law in an effort to stifle free spee...

Reducere. A]s long as the past is principally used as a model for imitation, it is always in danger of being a little altered and touched up and brought near...

Description"While life needs the services of history, it must just as clearly be comprehended that an excess measure of history will do harm to the...

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In the second edition of this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie builds upon his guide to using - and indeed abusing - logic in order to win a...

American environmentalism is defined by its icons: the "Crying Indian, " who shed a tear in response to litter and pollution; the cooling towers of...

This book is a pneumatological reflection on the use and abuse of Spirit in light of the abuse of religion within South African Pentecostalism.Publ...

In this provocative book, journalist Peter Hetherington argues that Britain, particularly England, needs an active land policy to protect against r...

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...

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DescriptionThe first in-depth history and analysis of a much-abused policing policyNo policing tactic has been more controversial than "stop and fr...

Reducere. In a working life that spanned half a century, Ernie Goodman was one of the nation's preeminent defense attorneys for workers and the militant poor...

Reducere. In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with t...

Reducere. "A classic. . . . It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American l...

Bill Clinton has always had a congenial relationship with African Americans, even being labeled "the first black president." Yet Clinton's presiden...

Awards🏆Winner (2005) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: Michael J. KlarmanA monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's ruling...

Reducere. In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the...

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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. Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or ...

Reducere. While Florida is rarely considered a traditional southern state, its history of race relations reveals otherwise. This study of the civil rights mo...

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

Reducere. DescriptionNamed to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 The Newspaper Boy is a remarkable collection of memories and personal reflections of the deep...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Victoria W. WolcottIllustration(s): 16 halftones, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 272Publication date...

Everyone condemns the 'abuse of rights', but it is seldom applied as a rule of decision. This book concludes that except when given context as part...

Reducere. Here is an illustrated history of the civil rights movement, written and designed for ages 10 to adult, that clearly and effectively brings the tur...

Reducere. What time do we live in? To gain perspective on what is happening now, we need to be aware of the roots and even the detours that have led us here....

Reducere. Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far fr...

Reducere. Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or ...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Martin A. BergerIllustration(s): 65 b-w illus.Number of pages: 162Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

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Reducere. Named One of the "Best Art Books of 2018" by the New York Times Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death--and at a time when race relations...

Reducere. Although no battles were fought on Long Island, the Civil War deeply affected all of its residents. More than three thousand men--white and black--...

Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans--in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the...

Cleveland Sellers Jr. was the scapegoat for one of the bloodiest civil rights events of the 1960s. In 1968 state troopers gunned down black student...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ruth ColkerIllustration(s): 1 tableNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x ...

A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the worldPublisher: Yale ...

Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? This book delivers a devas...

Reducere. On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was j...