On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights, Hardcover - Lawrence Goldstone

Reducere. An award-winning constitutional law historian examines case-based evidence that reveals the Supreme Court's longstanding support for white supremac...

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United St...

Reducere. DescriptionThe fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old -- the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge...

DescriptionAfter a restrained 2017 term in which the Supreme Court muddled through most of its work with just eight justices, the court roared back...

Reducere. The Heart of Atlanta Supreme Court decision stands among the court's most significant civil rights rulings. In Atlanta, Georgia, two arch segregati...

Reducere. Description"Racist. Hero. Stubborn. Fighter. Chink. I've been called many things on the way to this moment, but ironically, I've never been called ...

Reducere. In The Supreme Court, Lawrence Baum provides a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court, one that is balanced and illuminatin...

Reducere. America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

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...

Reducere. A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes A Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor BookKirkusBest Books of 2015BooklistE...

Provides a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In contrast to a typical book...

Reducere. The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to t...

DescriptionJustice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform ...

A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rig...

Reducere. Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even mo...

This volume analyses the prospects and challenges of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in context. The book is for all rea...

Reducere. "An indispensible study" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience that presents a provo...

Reducere. This book explores the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Ohio et al. v. American Express, and the preceding litigation, for the tr...

Reducere. Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil rights movement, ...

Reducere. "Racist. Hero. Stubborn. Fighter. Chink. I've been called many things on the way to this moment, but ironically, I've never been called 'a slant.'"...

Reducere. In 1909, the Smithsonian Institution commissioned ex-President Theodore Roosevelt to collect specimens of African wildlife for the National Museum....

Reducere. Volume 2 of Double Exposure commemorates the ongoing fight to fulfil the promise of freedom and equality for all American citizens, from the Civil ...

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

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Joshua O. RenoIllustration(s): 11 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2022Di...

Herein The African American Civil Rights Movement is presented with 538 pages of primary documents after the civil war. Take a first-hand look into...

DescriptionWith the Constitutional Convention in 1787, America was set on a course to develop a unique system of law with roots in the English comm...

Reducere. Critically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone offers an affecting portrait of the road to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which sig...

Reducere. Exploring the little-known history behind the legal doctrine of prior appropriation--"first in time is first in right"--used to apportion water res...

Reducere. On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. Th...

Reducere. If the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while...

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Reducere. The United States Supreme Court has numbered nine justices for the past 150 years. But that number is not fixed. With the Democrats controlling the...

Reducere. In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the ...

An African American Dilemma offers the first social history of northern Black debates over school integration versus separation from the 1840s to t...

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most A...

To achieve justice and equal protection under the law, Latinos have turned to the U.S. court system to assert and defend their rights. Some of thes...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

An urgent, sharply observed chronicle of the Supreme Court during twelve months unlike any other in American history, by the legendary New York Tim...

"The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Richard Lazarus's compelling narrative is ...

Reducere. The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became t...

DescriptionA unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our "national conversation about race"--and what to do about it How to Be L...