Abraham J. Heschel
Abraham J. Heschel (1907-1972), born in Poland, moved to the United States in 1940. A professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, Heschel became an active and well-known participant in the Civil Rights movement and the protests ... [... more]
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Harold Cruse
Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation of activists and intellectuals. The product of a lifetime of ... [... more]
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Donzaleigh Abernathy
Ralph David Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. were inseparable and together helped to establish what would become the modern American Civil Rights Movement. They preached, marched, and were frequently jailed together. Donzaleigh Abernathy, ... [... more]
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Joseph P. Shapiro
People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century. click for more> Joseph P. Shapiro [... more]
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Rita Murphy
I first began writing when my son was a year old. I took a... A powerful look at race and family at the dawn of the civil rights movement. Eleven-year-old Celli's summer begins the usual way -- her mother leaves for a month's vacation in Atlanta ... [... more]
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Linda Barrett Osborne
Now in paperback--a personal look at the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s told through dozens of interviews conducted by Washington, D.C., fourth graders with their parents, grandparents, neighbors, and others who helped fight the ... [... more]
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E. Franklin Frazier
Frazier's study of the black church and an essay by Lincoln arguing that the civil rights movement saw the splintering of the traditional black church and the creation of new roles for religion. click for more> E. Franklin Frazier [... more]
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Casey King
Now in paperback--a personal look at the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s told through dozens of interviews conducted by Washington, D.C., fourth graders with their parents, grandparents, neighbors, and others who helped fight the ... [... more]
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Miriam Gurko
Traces the course of the women's rights movement from its origin in the Seneca Falls Convention through the passage of the Nineteenth Ammendment giving women the right to vote. click for more> Miriam Gurko [... more]
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Eldridge Cleaver
The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge ... [... more]
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Howell Raines
Before stepping down in 2003, Howell Raines was Executive Editor of the New York Times. He is the author of Whiskey Man, a novel, and My Soul Is Rested, an oral history of the Civil Rights movement. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature ... [... more]
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