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English
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Rich in information, Motion for Justice: - I Rest My Case shares Brian Vukadinovich's experiences and intimate knowledge of governmental and judicial corruption and what went on behind the scenes in Indiana for years in efforts to take away his freedom and livelihood as a teacher. Motion for Justice: - I Rest My Case, in a straightforward, no-holds-barred style, will open your eyes to government and judicial corruption that you have never before heard...
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Language
Español
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Este libro del Grupo de Investigación en Seguridad y Defensa (Gisde) de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, La Fuerza Pública Colombiana en el posacuerdo: reflexiones acerca de su proceso de adecuación, busca contribuir a la reflexión y el debate actual en nuestro país acerca de qué tipo de fuerza pública es la que requerimos en este periodo de posacuerdo con las FARC. Con este objetivo examinamos cuál debe ser el camino más adecuado para...
Publisher
Passport Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., filtered through the prism of the struggle between black and white America, divisiveness within the civil rights movement itself, and an undeclared war in Vietnam. Includes archival footage of Dr. King and interviews with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, and others.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 85 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe, filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, William Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed "Chicago 8" activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
Description
The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles--even its language--can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange charter and how did it gain such legendary status? Historian Dan Jones takes us back to the turbulent year of 1215, when, beset by foreign crises and cornered by a growing domestic rebellion, King john reluctantly agreed to fix his seal to a...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
In the spring of 1964, the civil rights community is gearing up for "Mississippi Freedom Summer," during which hundreds, if not thousands, of mostly white student activists from the North will link up with mostly black freedom workers to accomplish what the Mississippi power structure fears the most: registering black people to vote. For the segregationists, Freedom Summer is nothing less than a declaration of war. The state responds by swearing in...
Publisher
Diamond Law
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of growing up gay, lesbian, bisexual, gender non-conforming, and transgender in the Pacific Northwest. Issues discussed include microaggressions, implicit bias, coming out, the gender binary, discrimination at the workplace, and family dynamics.
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English
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"America, Goddam explores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the United States today. Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities. America Goddam powerfully demonstrates...
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English
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Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far race relations have progressed, and sadly, how far we have yet to go. Included are "Industrial Education for the Negro" by Booker T. Washington, "The Talented Tenth" by W.E. Burghardt DuBois, "The Disfranchisement of the Negro" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Negro...
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English
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The Science of Right has for its object the principles of all the laws which it is possible to promulgate by external legislation. Where there is such a legislation, it becomes, in actual application to it, a system of positive right and law; and he who is versed in the knowledge of this system is called a jurist or jurisconsult (jurisconsultus). A practical jurisconsult (jurisperitus), or a professional lawyer, is one who is skilled in the knowledge...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Newtown school shooting. Aurora theater shooting. Tucson supermarket shooting. Are visceral reactions to tragedies trumping the words of our forefathers? Should we allow fear and the growing concern over public safety to limit our civil liberties? Dead Patriot Films presents Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire, a documentary that brings audiences to the center of the controversy over the issue that is dividing our nation - gun control. Narrated by...
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century...
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English
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Written in a fit of pique brought about by Edmund Burke's blistering attack of the French Revolution, Paine's The Rights of Man has come to be regarded as one of the most important works in the realm of Western political philosophy. In it, Paine contends that some rights that are granted through natural law, rather than by governments or constitutions. A must-read for those interested in politics, philosophy, and the intersection of the
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Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1993.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrated (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Martin Luther King Jr. that tells the story of how he used nonviolence to lead the civil rights movement"--
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Publisher
Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 280 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr, a journalist working on the...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Deeply researched and widely reported, this exploration of the Black Power phenomenon that began to challenge the traditional civil rights movement in 1966 offers portraits of the major characters in the yearlong drama and the fierce battles over voting rights, identity politics, and the teaching of Black history.
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