Civil Rights
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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
$27.00 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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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
$49.92 Read moreAn 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
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When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia’s Capital City
$19.95 Add to cartOur nation’s first elected Black governor, L. Douglas Wilder, returned to public service in 2005 as the first popularly elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in sixty years. Despite his landslide elect
- Author: Norman, Linwood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1958754935
- Language: English
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Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
$20.00 Read moreA masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it.
Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond’s Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a ne- Author: Bond, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0807014788
- Language: English
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Police: A Field Guide Revised Edition
$19.95 Read moreA radical guide to the language of policing
This field guide arms activists–and indeed anyone concerned about police abuse–with critical insights that ultimately redefine the very idea of policing.- Author: Correia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765879
- Language: English
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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
$26.95 Add to cartIn Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women–northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina–share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonv… [more below]
- Author: Holsaert, Faith S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0252078888
- Language: English
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In Defense of My People
$28.95 Read moreOriginally published in Spanish in 1936 and 1937, In Defense of My People contains articles, letters and speeches written by one of the most influential civil rights activists of the early twentieth c… [more below]
- Author: Perales, Alonso S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1558859284
- Language: English
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
$28.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment–and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its in
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1635574250
- Language: English
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There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis
$16.95 Read moreThis kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today–Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314697
- Language: English
