Political Science : Civil Rights

There is a new form of jihad to fear—one that threatens the very values on which our freedom rests Bruce Bawer’s While Europe Slept sounded the alarm about the dire impact of Muslim immigration in Europe. Now, in Surrender, he reveals that a combination of fear and political correctness has led politicians, intellectuals, religious leaders, and the media—both in the United States and abroad—to appease radical Islam at the cost of our most cherished values: freedom of speech and freedom of the press. more...

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Foreword. Acknowledgments. Prologue: "Does This Look Natchel?". One: Into a Changing World. Two: A Moral Education. Three: Unladylike Lady. Four: Edged Tools. Five: Ambition to Edit. Six: They Say. Seven: Do Something. Eight: Exiled. Afterword. Selected Bibliography. Index more...

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In the generation that followed Frederick Douglass, no African American was more prominent, or more outspoken, than Ida B. Wells. Her crusade against lynching in the 1890s made her famous, or notorious, across America, and she was seriously considered as a rival to W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington for race leadership. This book is the first full biography of Wells, a passionate crusader for black people and women--and one who was sometimes torn by her conflicting loyalties to race more...

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In September 1957, the nation was transfixed by nine black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision. Governor Orval Faubus had defied the city's integration plan by calling out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the students from entering the school. Newspapers across the nation ran front-page photographs of whites, both students and parents, screaming epithets at the quiet, well-dressed black children. President Eisenhower reluctantly deployed troops from the 101st Air-borne, both outside and inside the school. Integration proceeded, but the turmoil of Little Rock had only just begun. Public schools were soon shut down for a full year. Black students endured outrageous provocation by white classmates. Governor Faubus's popularity skyrocketed, while the landmark case Cooper v. Aaron worked its way to the Supreme Court and eventually paved the way for the integration of the south. more...

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This book addresses key issues in the historical struggle for civil rights, political rights, and social rights in the USA and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present. Issues include the rights of women and minorities, National Socialism, and the emergence of the concept of social rights. more...

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