Civil Rights
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Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation
$20.99 Add to cartI have a dream. When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans t
- Author: Jones, Clarence B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0230337554
- Language: English
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Natural Right and History
$25.00 Add to cartIn this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the… [more below]
- Series: Walgreen Foundation Lectures
- Author: Strauss, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 1965
- ISBN10: 0226776948
- Language: English
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Anatomy of the State
$14.99 Add to cartMurray Rothbard was known as the state’s greatest living enemy, and this book is his most powerful statement on the topic. He explains what a state is and what it is not. He shows how it is an institu… [more below]
- Author: Rothbard, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: September 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1607967723
- Language: English
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Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
$24.02 Add to cartThe classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectuals
Hailed by Publ- Author: Reed, Adolph L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1565846753
- Language: English
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Soul City
$30.99 Add to cart“One of the greatest least-told stories in American history. . . . Healy does an excellent job recounting the details.”
In 1969, with America’s inner cities in turmoil
–The New York Times Book Review- Author: Healy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250811260
- Language: English
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Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
$22.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive history of the vital role women—both black and white—played in the civil rights movement.
In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, credit finally goes where credit is due—- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0684850133
- Language: English
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In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
$30.00 Add to cartA fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.
Looting — a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods — is one of the more extr… [more below]- Author: Osterweil, Vicky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1645036693
- Language: English
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The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartNo topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Cook, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0190073454
- Language: English
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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
$16.95 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist
53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography “[A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer’s life. . . . Bri- Author: Blain, Keisha N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0807007250
- Language: English
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Asà Que Quieres Hablar de Raza / So You Want to Talk about Race
$16.95 Read moreEn este bestseller del New York Times, Ijeoma Oluo nos brinda un análisis contundente e intuitivo del tema de la raza en los Estados Unidos.
La amplia cobertura que han tenido los rasgos y facetas d- Author: Oluo, Ijeoma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 059331462X
- Language: Spanish
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Black Panthers Speak
$20.00 Add to cartA sweeping collection of the most vital and representative writings of the Black Panther party.
- Author: Foner, Philip S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1608463281
- Language: English
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Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968
$20.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for non
- Author: Ricks, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872529
- Language: English
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
$20.00 Add to cartMLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott.
A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the succe- Series: King Legacy (Paperback) #1
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0807000698
- Language: English
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Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America
$18.95 Add to cartGunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how gun… [more below]
- Author: Winkler, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0393345831
- Language: English
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A National Park for Women’s Rights: The Campaign That Made It Happen
$28.95 Add to cartA National Park for Women’s Rights chronicles a little-known story in American history: the establishment of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York; the first “idea park
- Author: Hart, Judy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501771655
- Language: English
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A Life in the American Century
$29.95 Read moreFor the past eight decades, we have lived in “the American Century” – a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivalled power – be it political, economic or military – on the global stage. Born on t… [more below]
- Author: Nye, Joseph S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1509560688
- Language: English
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This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
$25.95 Add to cartVisiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self-defense,” King assured him. It was not the only wea… [more below]
- Author: Cobb, Charles E., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 04 2015
- ISBN10: 082236123X
- Language: English
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A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
$18.99 Add to cartA powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from t… [more below]- Author: Carson, Clayborne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0446678090
- Language: English
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
$18.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inc
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1635574285
- Language: English
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American Identity in Crisis: Notes from an Accidental Activist
$24.99 Add to cartA trailblazing activist’s passionate and incisive look at why she started a movement to ensure that 26 million Americans have access to the IDs they need to escape poverty and live healthy and product
- Author: Calvin, Kat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063273160
- Language: English
