"While the world may know the major names of the Civil Rights movement, there are countless lesser-known heroes fighting the good fight to advance equal justice for all, heeding the call when no one else was listening, often risking their lives and livelihoods in the process. This book shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things--like Pauli Murray, whose early work informed Thurgood Marshall's legal argument for Brown v. Board...

Jelks's meditations are written in the form of letter to Martin Luther King Jr. He speaks to the many public issues we presently confront in the United States: economic inequality, freedom of assembly, police brutality, ongoing social class conflicts, and geopolitics. The result is a contemporary revival of the literary tradition of meditative social analysis. These meditations on democracy provide spiritual oxygen to help readers endure the struggles...

Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.

Presents a revealing and dramatic chronicle of the 12 months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

"Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to "pass" for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the darkest crimes in America and helping to plant the...

A graphic novel trilogy based on the life of civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis.

"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.

"A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment, Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions,...

Durante las últimas décadas, la promesa de igualdad y su búsqueda han sido una constante en las prácticas, las normas y la reflexión jurídicas, lo que reafirma que ni el Estado ni los individuos deben decidir o realizar acciones discriminatorias guiadas por prejuicios y estigmatizaciones. De ahí que nuestras democracias consideren irrazonables y prohíban aquellos requisitos que puedan restringir el goce de derechos constitucionales: una estatura...

"La violencia está siendo el resultado de creer diferente al otro. Los abusos sobre las minorías son comunes y constantes. La dignidad humana está siendo pisoteada por el mismo ser humano que cree tener derechos superiores sobre quien no comulga con sus ideas y principios religiosos. Sin el mínimo respeto y tolerancia hacia los demás, se defiende erróneamente una tradición o una costumbre religiosa pasando por encima de la vida de otro ser...