Civil Rights
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Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-Ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism
$26.95 Add to cartIn the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across Atlanta, leading to the arrest of some for participat
- Author: Cohen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353280
- Language: English
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Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan
$24.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan on a back-country Georgia road in 1964, nine
- Author: Shipp, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 082035161X
- Language: English
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No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West
$31.58 Add to cartNo Place for a Woman explores the history of the fight for women’s rights in the West, examining the conditions that prevailed during the vast migration of pioneers looking for free land and opportuni… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072412
- Language: English
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Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
$18.99 Read moreBestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton brings to light the stories of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement, drawing on his unique perspective in the history of the fight for social justice
- Author: Sharpton, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1335449647
- Language: English
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Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It
$31.99 Add to cartA novel account of how the law contributes to the insecurity of our data and a bold way to rethink it.
Digital connections permeate our lives-and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for … [more below]- Author: Solove, Daniel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0190940557
- Language: English
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Negroes with Guns
$24.99 Add to cartContains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense
- Author: F. Williams, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: June 12 2020
- ISBN10: 3663720160
- Language: English
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A Day I Ain’t Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi
$22.95 Add to cartThe Black people of Marks, Mississippi, and other rural southern towns were the backbone of the civil rights movement, yet their stories have too rarely been celebrated and are, for the most part, for
- Author: Bateman, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820363049
- Language: English
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The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition
$24.95 Add to cartThe story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles.
At once a history for understanding fascism and a
- Author: Hope, Jeanelle K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888900949
- Language: English
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Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
$36.95 Add to cartOn June 17, 2015, a white supremacist entered Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and sat with some of its parishioners during a Wednesday night Bible study session. An hour later, he be
- Author: Williams, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0820349577
- Language: English
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City on the Second Floor
$15.00 Add to cartHailed by historians and journalists alike as the “best political poet in America” and “poet laureate of struggle”, Sedillo returns with another instant classic. City on the Second Floor is a meditati
- Author: Sedillo, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1953447899
- Language: English
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Civil Rights Baby (2021 New Edition): My Story of Race, Sports, and Breaking Barriers in American Journalism
$18.99 Add to cart* New Edition *
THIS IS THE ONLY VALID, AUTHOR-APPROVED VERSION OF THIS MEMOIR.
Award-winning black TV journalist Nita Wiggins reflects on the civil rights climate in the U.S. and offers an honest acc
- Author: Wiggins, Nita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1737580500
- Language: English
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Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider
$22.00 Add to cartA firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward—written by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s pioneers.
At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the origin- Author: Person, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 125083676X
- Language: English
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Disaffected!: Access vs Apathy: Why Every Election is The Election of a Lifetime
$24.99 Add to cartSean Pittman’s Disaffected! is a heartfelt call to action and an eye-opening explanation of how the power of voting is the one true solution to address the critical issues we face today. Through detai
- Author: Pittman, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1959694073
- Language: English
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100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting
$35.00 Add to cartA timely and paradigm-shifting argument that all members of a democracy must participate in elections, by a leading political expert and Washington Post journalist
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- Author: Dionne, E. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976773
- Language: English
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Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America
$34.99 Read moreJoel Edward Goza dismantles the deep-seated myths that perpetuate white supremacy–and makes the case that reparations are necessary to heal America’s racial wounds and live up to our democratic ideal… [more below]
- Author: Goza, Joel Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0802884318
- Language: English
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Unexampled Courage
$18.00 Add to cart*The book that inspired the 2021 PBS American Experience documentary, The Blinding of Isaac Woodard.*
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How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America’s civil rights history.- Author: Gergel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1250251265
- Language: English
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Homeland
$20.99 Add to cartIn Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco–an experience th
- Series: Little Brother #2
- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0765333708
- Language: English
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Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past a Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartLike the renowned classics Praying for Sheetrock and North Toward Home, Ever Is a Long Time captures the spirit and feel of a small Southern town divided by racism and violence in the midst of the Civ… [more below]
- Author: Eubanks, W. Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 03 2005
- ISBN10: 0465021050
- Language: English
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They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
$36.00 Add to cartA deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in A… [more below]
- Author: Lowery, Wesley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316312479
- Language: English
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Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid Story
$29.95 Add to cartThe Legal Aid Society’s mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life. Everyday Ju… [more below]
- Author: Wiltshire, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826505104
- Language: English
