Civil Rights 63

Author : Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0063236796

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I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. Pdf

Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman A beautiful collectible edition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legendary speech at the March on Washington, laid out to follow the cadence of his oration--part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before thousands of Americans who had gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in the name of civil rights. Including the immortal words, "I have a dream," Dr. King's keynote speech would energize a movement and change the course of history. With references to the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, Shakespeare, and the Bible, Dr. King's March on Washington address has long been hailed as one of the greatest pieces of writing and oration in history. Profound and deeply moving, it is as relevant today as it was nearly sixty years earlier. This beautifully designed hardcover edition presents Dr. King's speech in its entirety, paying tribute to this extraordinary leader and his immeasurable contribution, and inspiring a new generation of activists dedicated to carrying on the fight for justice and equality.

Author : Judy L. Hasday
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781438104256

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Judy L. Hasday Pdf

Describes the struggle for civil rights in the United States including the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

Author : Sabrina Crewe,Scott Ingram
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836834119

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The 1963 Civil Rights March by Sabrina Crewe,Scott Ingram Pdf

Discusses the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the 1963 March on Washington.

Author : Dr Martin Luther King,Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2025-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0063425815

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Dr Martin Luther King,Martin Luther King, Jr. Pdf

Author : Taylor Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0333529456

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Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch Pdf

Author : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807001134

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Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Pdf

Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can’t Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can’t Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963—during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—Asia and Africa were “moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace.” King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: “For years now, I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’”

Author : William P. Jones
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393082852

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The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones Pdf

A history professor describes the impact and history of the opening speech made during the March on Washington by the trade unionist Philip Randolph, whose vision and fight for equal economic and social citizenship began in 1941.

Author : Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813140957

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Thunder of Freedom by Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner Pdf

The world's eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964, when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration project and were met with violent resistance from white supremacists. Sue Sojourner and her husband arrived in Holmes County, Mississippi, in the wake of this historic time, known as "Freedom Summer." From September 1964 until her departure from the state in 1969, Sojourner collected an incredible number of documents, oral histories, and photographs chronicling the dramatic events that she witnessed. In this remarkable book, written in collaboration with Cheryl Reitan, Sojourner presents a fascinating account of one of the civil rights movement's most active and broad-based community organizing operations in the South. Thunder of Freedom unites Sojourner's personal experiences with her insights regarding the dynamics of race relations in the 1960s South, providing readers with a unique look at the struggle for rights and equality in Mississippi. Illustrated with selections from Sojourner's acclaimed catalog of photographs, this profound book tells the powerful, often intimate stories of ordinary people who accomplished extraordinary things.

Author : Jill Karson
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000050633159

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Civil Rights by Jill Karson Pdf

Contains reprints of some of the most significant Civil Rights speeches in the history of the United States, each with a brief explanatory introduction.

Author : Jeanne Theoharis
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807075876

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A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis Pdf

Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered the movement firmly in the past, whitewashed the forces that stood in its way, and diminished its scope. And it is used perniciously in our own times to chastise present-day movements and obscure contemporary injustice. In A More Beautiful and Terrible History award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis dissects this national myth-making, teasing apart the accepted stories to show them in a strikingly different light. We see Rosa Parks not simply as a bus lady but a lifelong criminal justice activist and radical; Martin Luther King, Jr. as not only challenging Southern sheriffs but Northern liberals, too; and Coretta Scott King not only as a “helpmate” but a lifelong economic justice and peace activist who pushed her husband’s activism in these directions. Moving from “the histories we get” to “the histories we need,” Theoharis challenges nine key aspects of the fable to reveal the diversity of people, especially women and young people, who led the movement; the work and disruption it took; the role of the media and “polite racism” in maintaining injustice; and the immense barriers and repression activists faced. Theoharis makes us reckon with the fact that far from being acceptable, passive or unified, the civil rights movement was unpopular, disruptive, and courageously persevering. Activists embraced an expansive vision of justice—which a majority of Americans opposed and which the federal government feared. By showing us the complex reality of the movement, the power of its organizing, and the beauty and scope of the vision, Theoharis proves that there was nothing natural or inevitable about the progress that occurred. A More Beautiful and Terrible History will change our historical frame, revealing the richness of our civil rights legacy, the uncomfortable mirror it holds to the nation, and the crucial work that remains to be done. Winner of the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize in Nonfiction

Author : Megan Ming Francis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037106

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Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State by Megan Ming Francis Pdf

This book extends what we know about the development of civil rights and the role of the NAACP in American politics. Through a sweeping archival analysis of the NAACP's battle against lynching and mob violence from 1909 to 1923, this book examines how the NAACP raised public awareness, won over American presidents, secured the support of Congress, and won a landmark criminal procedure case in front of the Supreme Court.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : James F. Simon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871407559

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Eisenhower vs. Warren by James F. Simon Pdf

The epic 1950s battle that would shape the legal future of the civil rights movement is chronicled here for the first time. The bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement. Eisenhower was a gradualist who wanted to coax white Americans in the South into eventually accepting integration, while Warren, author of the Supreme Court’s historic unanimous opinion in Brown v. Board of Education, demanded immediate action to dismantle the segregation of the public school system. In Eisenhower vs. Warren, two-time New York Times Notable Book author James F. Simon examines the years of strife between them that led Eisenhower to say that his biggest mistake as president was appointing that “dumb son of a bitch Earl Warren.” This momentous, poisonous relationship is presented here at last in one volume. Compellingly written, Eisenhower vs. Warren brings to vivid life the clash that continues to reverberate in political and constitutional debates today.

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : MINN:30000008435129

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Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights by United States Commission on Civil Rights Pdf

Author : Charles Patterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0816029687

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The Civil Rights Movement by Charles Patterson Pdf

Traces the development of the civil rights movement, highlighting significant leaders and events such as court cases, protests, and marches.