Crusade For Justice

Author : Ida B. Wells
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226691565

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Crusade for Justice by Ida B. Wells Pdf

The NAACP co-founder, civil rights activist, educator, and journalist recounts her public and private life in this classic memoir. Born to enslaved parents, Ida B. Wells was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage, both for women and for African Americans. She co-founded the NAACP, started the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, and was a leader in the early civil rights movement, working alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Church Terrell, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony. This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Wells’s private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Eve L. Ewing, new images, and a new afterword by Ida B. Wells’s great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster. “No student of black history should overlook Crusade for Justice.” —William M. Tuttle, Jr., Journal of American History

Author : Ernesto B. Vigil
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0299162249

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The Crusade for Justice by Ernesto B. Vigil Pdf

Recounts the history of a Chicano rights group in 1960s Denver.

Author : Peter J. Hammer,Trevor W. Coleman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814338469

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Crusader for Justice by Peter J. Hammer,Trevor W. Coleman Pdf

The Honorable Damon J. Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1977, where he has been an eloquent defender of civil and constitutional rights and a vigorous enforcer of civil rights law. In Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith, authors Peter J. Hammer and Trevor W. Coleman presents the first ever biography of native Detroiter Judge Keith, surveying his education, important influences, major cases, and professional and personal commitments. Along the way, the authors consult a host of Keith's notable friends and colleagues, including former White House deputy counsel John Dean, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and industrialist Edsel Ford II for this candid and comprehensive volume.Hammer and Coleman trace Keith's early life, from his public school days in Detroit to his time serving in the segregated U.S. army and his law school years at Howard University at the dawn of the Civil Rights era. They reveal how Keith's passion for racial and social justice informed his career, as he became co-chairman of Michigan's first Civil Rights Commission and negotiated the politics of his appointment to the federal judiciary. The authors go on to detail Keith's most famous cases, including the Pontiac Busing and Hamtramck Housing cases, the 1977 Detroit Police affirmative action case, the so-called Keith Case (United States v. U.S. District Court), and the Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft case in 2002. They also trace Keith's personal commitment to mentoring young black lawyers, provide a candid look behind the scenes at the dynamics and politics of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and even discuss some of Keith's difficult relationships, for instance with the Detroit NAACP and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Judge Keith's forty-five years on the bench offer a unique viewpoint on a tumultuous era of American and legal history. Readers interested in Civil Rights-era law, politics, and personalities will appreciate the portrait of Keith's fortitude and conviction in Crusader for Justice.More information can be found at crusaderforjustice.com

Author : Carlton Stowers
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781466835825

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Scream at the Sky by Carlton Stowers Pdf

Carlton Stowers, the two-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling master of true crime, is back. Scream at the Sky is his masterful chronicle of one man's murderous career, and another man's sworn promise to deliver justice and closure to the people of Texas. Wichita Falls, Texas, was home to a hundred thousand people in the last months of 1984. That winter was harsh, as the normally arid Texas plains gave way to ominous dark clouds that delivered freezing sleet and rain. But a much darker force was looming, and soon the quiet town was besieged by a faceless evil--and its young women were dying because of it. In the next seventeen months five women were found brutally beaten and murdered, their young lives cut short and their bodies left haphazardly where they fell. In the years that followed, grieving families fruitlessly sought answers. A haunted district attorney chased every lead only to meet one dead end after another. And the killer's identity remained unknown to the ravaged townspeople. Then, fourteen years after the killing started, an investigator who had been assigned the cold case brought to it a renewed dedication, and came upon a chance discovery. Searching through the yellowed case files, he caught a minor detail that suggested one more suspect. Faryion Wardrip was an unhappily married family man who drowned his anger in substance abuse and violent fantasies. But for five unfortunate families, the drugs sometimes took over and the fantasies became realities. Investigator John Little followed his instincts and tirelessly ruled out every possibility until he was left with but one conclusion: Faryion Wardrip was the serial killer who had eluded his office for so long. How he tracked down Wardrip and used the legal system to beat the killer at his own game of deception is a remarkable story of justice served.

Author : Pascal Bresson,Sylvain Dorange
Publisher : Humanoids, Inc.
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781643377506

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For Justice - The Serge & Beate Klarsfeld Story by Pascal Bresson,Sylvain Dorange Pdf

The seldom-told true story of France's most famous Nazi Hunters and heroes of the Resistance: The Klarsfelds.

Author : Isabel Vincent
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307366450

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Hitler's Silent Partners by Isabel Vincent Pdf

Award-winning journalist Isabel Vincent unravels the labyrinthine story behind the headlines by taking us through the life of survivor Renée Appel, who found refuge in Canada. With her, we come to understand what it means to wait for justice: how, on the eve of war, desperate men and women entrusted their life savings to Swiss banks; how Nazis laundered gold looted from Jewish families; how the demands of international business, Swiss bank secrecy, and greed kept the truth hidden for over half a century and still prevent restitution from being made. Hitler's Silent Partners is a rigorous and often heartbreaking look at statistics seldom given a human face.

Author : Lori Amber Roessner,Jodi L. Rightler-McDaniels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498530330

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Political Pioneer of the Press by Lori Amber Roessner,Jodi L. Rightler-McDaniels Pdf

Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career, and legacy were relegated to the footnotes of history. Beginning with the posthumously published autobiography edited and released by her daughter Alfreda in 1970, a handful of biographers and historians—most notably, Patricia Schechter, Paula Giddings, Mia Bay, Gail Bederman, and Jinx Broussard—have begun to place the life of Wells-Barnett within the context of the social, cultural, and political milieu of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This edited volume seeks to extend the discussions that they have cultivated over the last five decades and to provide insight into the communication strategies that the political advocate turned to throughout the course of her life as a social justice crusader. In particular, scholars such as Schechter, Broussard, and many more will weigh in on the full range of communication techniques—from lecture circuits and public relations campaigns to investigative and advocacy journalism—that Wells-Barnett employed to combat racism and sexism and to promote social equity; her dual career as a journalist and political agitator; her advocacy efforts on an international, national, and local level; her own failed political ambitions; her role as a bridge and interloper in key social movements of the nineteenth and twentieth century; her legacy in American culture; and her potential to serve as a prism through which to educate others on how to address lingering forms of oppression in the twenty-first century.

Author : Philip Dray
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781682633106

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Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells by Philip Dray Pdf

The award-winning picture book tells the inspirational story of journalist Ida B. Wells and her crusade for justice and civil rights. A must-have for American, Black, and women's history collections. In 1863, when Ida B. Wells was not yet two years old, the Emancipation Proclamation freed her from the bond of slavery. Blessed with a strong will, an eager mind, and a deep belief in America's promise of "freedom and justice for all," young Ida held her family together, defied society's conventions, and used her position as a journalist to speak against injustice. But Ida's greatest challenge arose after one of her friends was lynched. How could one headstrong young woman help free America from the looming "shadow of lawlessness"? Author Philip Dray tells the inspirational story of Ida B. Wells and her lifelong commitment to end injustice. Stephen Alcorn's remarkable illustrations recreate the tensions that threatened to upend a nation while paying tribute to a courageous American hero.

Author : Alisa Statman,Brie Tate
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062109491

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Restless Souls by Alisa Statman,Brie Tate Pdf

Restless Souls is the true, bone-chilling chronicle of the Manson Family murders and its aftermath, from the point of view of the victims’ families. When actress Sharon Tate and four others were brutally murdered by Charles Manson and his followers, the world was shocked. More than forty years later, the gruesome barbarity of the “Manson Family” still fascinates and horrifies. This true crime memoir by Alisa Statman, a 20-year Tate family friend, and Brie Tate, the daughter of Sharon Tate’s niece, includes interviews with the Tate family, accounts from personal letters, tape recordings, home movies, and private diaries. Complete with color photographs and personal insights, Restless Souls is the most revealing, riveting, and emotionally raw account of the gruesome slayings, the hunt and capture of the killers, and the behind-the-scenes drama of their trials, as well as a touching view of the torment that the victims families’ have endured for years after such tragedy.

Author : Rodolpho Gonzales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Mexico
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020670076

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I Am Joaquin by Rodolpho Gonzales Pdf

Author : Ida B. Wells
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226691428

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Crusade for Justice by Ida B. Wells Pdf

“She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of the country.”—Alfreda M. Duster Ida B. Wells is an American icon of truth telling. Born to slaves, she was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage, both for women and for African Americans. She co-founded the NAACP, started the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, and was a leader in the early civil rights movement, working alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Church Terrell, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony. This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Wells’s private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Eve L. Ewing, new images, and a new afterword by Ida B. Wells’s great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster.

Author : Ida B. Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:552007557

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Crusade for Justice by Ida B. Wells Pdf

Author : Francisco Arturo Rosales
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1611920396

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Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History by Francisco Arturo Rosales Pdf

This first-ever dictionary of important issues in the U.S. Latino struggle for civil rights defines a wide-ranging list of key terms.

Author : Elsie Elliot
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : China
ISBN : 9622250076

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Crusade for Justice--an Autobiography by Elsie Elliot Pdf

Author : Ida B. Wells
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0226893448

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Crusade for Justice by Ida B. Wells Pdf

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as mother of a growing family as well as her public activities as teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight against attitudes and laws oppressing blacks. "No student of black history should overlook Crusade for Justice."—William M. Tuttle, Jr., Journal of American History "Besides being the story of an incredibly courageous and outspoken black woman in the face of innumerable odds, the book is a valuable contribution to the social history of the United States and to the literature of the women's movement as well."—Elizabeth Kolmer, American Quarterly "[Wells was] a sophisticated fighter whose prose was as though as her intellect."—Walter Goodman, New York Times "An illuminating narrative of a zealous, race-conscious, civic- and church-minded black woman reformer, whose life story is a significant chapter in the history of Negro-White relations."—Thelma D. Perry, Negro History Bulletin