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"The controversies surrounding the nominations, confirmations, and rejections of recent Supreme Court Justices, and the increasingly conservative nature of the Court, have focused attention on the Supreme Court as never before. Although the Supreme Court is commonly understood to be the guardian of minority rights against the tyranny of the majority, Race Against the Court argues that the Court has never successfully performed this function. Rather...

Martin Luther King's classic exploration of the events and forces behind the Civil Rights Movement-- including his Letter from Birmingham jail, April 16, 1963.

Demonstrates similarities in present-day and post-Civil War racial crises through quotations from Lincoln's works illustrated by modern photographs and nineteenth-century prints and lithographs.

During the 1960s James Forman served as Executive Secretary and Director of International Affairs of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Provides a record of the events that took place in the streets, meetings, churches, jails, and in people's hearts and minds in the 1960s civil rights movement.

This book analyses the status of black Americans since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

A brief interpretive history of the Civil Rights movement that recaptures the crusading spirit, highlights the historic moments, defines the role of individuals and groups--and generally gives shape, responsible shape, to the course of events from the Brown decision, in 1954, to the assassination of Martin Luther King, in 1968. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and...