And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America 9780307271235

This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civi

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And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America
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Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest i

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Many of us have grown up with the language of civil rights, yet rarely consider how the construction of civil rights cla

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In 1973–1974 soaring commodity prices and an oil embargo alerted Americans to the twin dangers of resource exhaustion an

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On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people descended on Washington, D.C. They came by bus, car, and bicycle. Some even

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From Civil Rights to Human Rights examines King's lifelong commitments to economic equality, racial justice, and in

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This study, first published in 1978, compares the ways in which the systems in England, Scotland and the United States b

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Do democratic states bring about greater social and economic equality among their citizens? Modern India embraced univer

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