The Best Civil Rights Political Books 2025

1. Pre-Owned Power of the Tongue (Paperback) 1575621134 9781575621135

Words have played a vital role since the beginning of time. In the book of Genesis, God created the world and everything in it with His words. Today, believers have that same God-like ability to speak those things which be not as though they were. Through God?s Word, Kenneth Copeland reveals the Bible secret of words and the vital importance of using the tongue to create rather than destroy.

Title: Power of the Tongue Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 1575621134 EAN: 9781575621135 Author: Copeland, Kenneth CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

2. Long Shot: The Triumphs and Struggle of an NBA Freedom Fighter, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

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Long Shot: The Triumphs and Struggle of an NBA Freedom Fighter, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

3. My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the peeople who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration. Here, too, are voices from the Down-Home Resistance that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the traditions of the Old South--voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. My Soul is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen.

My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

4. Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less--and why we should.With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance--the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects. Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage--especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves. Obfuscation will teach users to push back, software developers to keep their user data safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it.Brunton and Nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary. They describe a series of historical and contemporary examples, including radar chaff deployed by World War II pilots, Twitter bots that hobbled the social media strategy of popular protest movements, and software that can camouflage users' search queries and stymie online advertising. They go on to consider obfuscation in more general terms, discussing why obfuscation is necessary, whether it is justified, how it works, and how it can be integrated with other privacy practices and technologies.

Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

5. Freedom Bound : A History of America's Civil Rights Movement, Used [Paperback]

In this singe volume, Robert Weisbrot gives a vivid, admirably balanced history of the civil rights movement--from its rise with the Brown decision and the Montgomery bus boycott in the 1950s, through the dramatic sit-ins, freedom rides, marches, and great legislative gains in the 1960s, to its decline in the urban riots, disputes over leadership, and affirmative action in the late 1960s and 1970s. Black-and-white photos.

Freedom Bound : A History of America's Civil Rights Movement, Used [Paperback]

6. Old South, New South, down South? : Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement, Used [Paperback]

How does a state, tarnished with a racist, violent history, emerge from the modern civil rights movement with a reputation for tolerance and progression? Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement exposes the image, illusion, and reality behind Florida's hidden story of racial discrimination and violence. By exploring multiple perspectives on racially motivated events, such as black agency, political stonewalling, and racist assaults, this collection of nine essays reconceptualizes the civil rights legacy of the Sunshine State. Its dissection of local, isolated acts of rebellion reveals a strategic, political concealment of the once dominant, often overlooked, old south attitude towards race in Florida.

Old South, New South, down South? : Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement, Used [Paperback]

7. Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity, Used [Paperback]

The Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune presents a series of essays examining the central questions of race, gender, and ethnic identity that have emerged since the civil rights reforms of the mid-1960s. The essays address such topics as how racism still acts to keep nonwhites in subordinate political, economic, and social status; how the hip-hop generation has turned -black is beautiful' on its head; and the volatile relationship between blacks and Jews. Page reflects on changes in the racial landscape since the 1960s and reconnects the increasingly abstract political debates about black conservatives, affirmative action, and the race card to the people for whom these words mean something more than just votes.

Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity, Used [Paperback]

8. Lunch at the 5 & 10 [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Lunch at the 5 & 10 is the story of the Greensboro sit-ins--how four African-American college students sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in North Carolina and ignited the civil rights movement in America. The year was 1960, but the racial sensibilities of Americans were light years removed from what they are today. Mr. Wolff's even-handed account of this pivotal event in our race relations has been widely praised since it was first published in 1970. In this new edition, the author adds a new conclusion, written after the 30th anniversary commemoration of the event where the Greensboro Four met once again. August Meier's introduction places the Greensboro sit-in in historical context and explains its importance in the course of the civil rights movement. "A remarkable account...reads like a novel. Wolff has recaptured these days with a sense of their drama, with deft characterizations of the principals, and with a sure feeling for the mood....An extraordinary accomplishment."--Book World.

Lunch at the 5 & 10 [Paperback - Used]

9. Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement (Profiles in History) [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This anthology provides a biographical record of the men and women who made the civil rights movement of the 1960s possible. While the leaders profiled in this volume represent diverse backgrounds and ideas, each was selected because their vision and work profoundly shaped one of history's great episodes of social reform.

Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, Used [Hardcover]

10. Constitutional Law for a Changing America: A Short Course, Used [Paperback]

Winner of the APSA Law and Courts Section's Teaching and Mentoring Award Meeting the needs of professors who teach one-term courses--or for those teaching two terms who wish to assign other readings--this condensed and concise one-volume text spans the breadth of institutional powers and civil rights and liberties. Epstein and Walker emphasize political context--arguments and input from lawyers and interest groups, justices' ideological and behavioral inclinations, elected officials' partisan positions, as well as public opinion-- allowing students to see the development of constitutional doctrine within its decidedly political environment. For this new fourth edition, material has been thoroughly updated through the end of the 2007-2008 term of the Supreme Court, with coverage and analysis of presidential signing statements, a survey of how legal principles affect the Court's decision making, and detailed overviews of recent cases, such as Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Gonzales v. Raich, Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, Kelo v. City of New London, and Van Orden v. Perry . Additionally, Epstein and Walker are including a brand new, concise chapter on the Second Amendment with the recent District of Columbia v. Heller case . Commentary helps students understand context of particular cases, while Aftermath boxes and profiles of influential groups and justices, photographs of litigants, and exhibits from cases enliven the text and enhance learning.

Constitutional Law for a Changing America: A Short Course, Used [Paperback]