Civil Rights
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Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)
$16.95 Add to cart“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase be… [more below]
- Author: Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1642596884
- Language: English
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The Real Ones: How to Disrupt the Hidden Ways Racism Makes Us Less Authentic
$30.00 Read moreTop political strategist Maya Rupert reveals how, for people of color, being real comes at a cost and authenticity is a privilege the marginalized cannot afford–that is, unless we change the system t… [more below]
- Author: Rupert, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593475976
- Language: English
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Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America
$17.99 Add to cartWith a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by Nadine Strossen
A new edition of the most important free speech book of the past half-century, with a new chapter by the auth- Author: Neier, Aryeh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979918
- Language: English
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Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
$23.99 Add to cart
An inside look at who’s watching you, what they know and why it matters. We are being watched.
We see online ads from websites we’ve visited, long after we’ve moved on to other interests. Our smartphon- Author: Angwin, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1250060869
- Language: English
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Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back
$27.95 Add to cartA bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence–and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a centur
- Series: Politics and Society in Modern America
- Author: Davis, Joshua Clark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0691238839
- Language: English
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God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
$22.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over r
- Series: Princeton Classics #142
- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0691266352
- Language: English
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Just Freedom: Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle
$28.00 Add to cartThe story of an extraordinary
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expansion of voting rights and the obstacles holding back its implementation
Florida citizens voted in 2018 to pass Amendment 4 to the state constitution, which
promi- Author: Rivero, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0813081165
- Language: English
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Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles
$28.95 Add to cartLIBERALS WITH ATTITUDE DOCUMENTS THE SIXTEEN MONTHS IN 1991-92 between the brutal beating of Rodney King by four police officers that was captured on a home video camera and the resignation of LAPD c
- Author: Goldberg, Danny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1636142591
- Language: English
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On Freedom
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A “visionary” (The Guardian) exploration of freedom–what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival–by the acclaimed Yale historian and… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593728742
- Language: English
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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
$25.00 Add to cartA riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.
In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony abou- Author: Watson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119435
- Language: English
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Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
$20.00 Add to cartA crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis.
The First Amen… [more below]- Author: Lewis, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679739394
- Language: English
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New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement
$28.99 Add to cartIn this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize, bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement.
More than a century of civil ri- Author: Williams, Juan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1668012359
- Language: English
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Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction
$35.00 Add to cartThe next phase of the war over reproduction in America
What’s next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion m- Author: Ziegler, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273045
- Language: English
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Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It
$27.99 Add to cartFrom the creator of “a unified field theory of racism” (NPR’s Planet Money), a dollars-and-cents reckoning of the state of Black America and a new framework to close the power gap
Historically, Black- Author: Perry, Andre M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1250869714
- Language: English
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Civil Disobedience
$12.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Government, Thoreau’s classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentie… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1557094179
- Language: English
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Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice
$18.99 Add to cartA riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” (The New York Times) Nobody Marc Lamont … [more below]
- Author: Hill, Marc Lamont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1982180404
- Language: English
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$15.99 Add to cartCreated as a living memorial to the philosophies and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this essential volume includes more than 120 quotations from the greatest civil rights leader’s speeches, ser
- Series: Newmarket Words of
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 19 2001
- ISBN10: 155704483X
- Language: English
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To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care
$27.95 Add to cartAn incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care
When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Blac- Author: Harris, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0691219060
- Language: English
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Negroes with Guns
$9.99 Add to cartContains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense
- Author: F. Williams, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: June 11 2020
- ISBN10: 9339046323
- Language: English
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Making the Case for Equality: 50 Years of Legal Milestones in LGBTQ History
$59.95 Add to cartDozens of landmark legal cases, from 1973 to 2023, that drove transformative change from courtrooms to living rooms nationwide
Lambda Legal, the pioneering non-profit legal organization, opened its hal
- Author: Pizer, Jennifer C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936148
- Language: English
