Search Results - "NAACP"

Profiles in humanity the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / by Cohen, Warren I.

Table of Contents: “…Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Václav Havel and the power of the powerless -- Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy -- Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women -- Muslim feminists -- Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality -- Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid -- Nelson Mandela : grace in victory -- Holocaust rescuers -- Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe -- Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China -- Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state -- Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Profiles in humanity the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / by Cohen, Warren I.

Table of Contents: “…Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Václav Havel and the power of the powerless -- Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy -- Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women -- Muslim feminists -- Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality -- Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid -- Nelson Mandela : grace in victory -- Holocaust rescuers -- Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe -- Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China -- Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state -- Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

We must not be afraid to be free stories of free expression in America / by Collins, Ronald K. L.

Table of Contents: “…Meiklejohn : Alexander Meiklejohn and First Amendment theories -- "The final jury of the nation" : Daniel Ellsberg and national security -- Fighting times and fighting faiths : Eugene Dennis and the clear and present danger -- Saving the NAACP : Robert Carter and the (Civil) right to association -- Crosses and crises : Edward Cleary and hate speech -- Striking back at the birchers : Elmer Gertz and defamation -- Saving old glory : Gregory Johnson and flag desecration -- Count-me-ins and count-me-outs : Mary Beth Tinker and student speech.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

We must not be afraid to be free stories of free expression in America / by Collins, Ronald K. L.

Table of Contents: “…Meiklejohn : Alexander Meiklejohn and First Amendment theories -- "The final jury of the nation" : Daniel Ellsberg and national security -- Fighting times and fighting faiths : Eugene Dennis and the clear and present danger -- Saving the NAACP : Robert Carter and the (Civil) right to association -- Crosses and crises : Edward Cleary and hate speech -- Striking back at the birchers : Elmer Gertz and defamation -- Saving old glory : Gregory Johnson and flag desecration -- Count-me-ins and count-me-outs : Mary Beth Tinker and student speech.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change / by Gilpin, R. Blakeslee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America -- Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown -- The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero -- Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown -- A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown -- Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP -- The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benét and the silencing of John Brown's body -- The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South -- Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown -- Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history -- Epilogue. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change / by Gilpin, R. Blakeslee

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America -- Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown -- The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero -- Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown -- A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown -- Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP -- The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benét and the silencing of John Brown's body -- The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South -- Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown -- Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history -- Epilogue. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Investigate everything federal efforts to compel Black loyalty during World War I / by Kornweibel, Theodore

Table of Contents: “…"Every word is loaded with sedition": The Crisis and the NAACP -- under Suspicion 132 -- 6. "I thank my God for the persecution": The Church of God in Christ -- under Attack 149 -- 7. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

A century of eugenics in America from the Indiana experiment to the human genome era /

Table of Contents: “…Lombardo ; "Quality, not mere quantity, counts" : black eugenics and the NAACP baby contests / Gregory Michael Dorr and Angela Logan -- pt. 3. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

A century of eugenics in America from the Indiana experiment to the human genome era /

Table of Contents: “…Lombardo ; "Quality, not mere quantity, counts" : black eugenics and the NAACP baby contests / Gregory Michael Dorr and Angela Logan -- pt. 3. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Investigate everything federal efforts to compel Black loyalty during World War I / by Kornweibel, Theodore

Table of Contents: “…"Every word is loaded with sedition": The Crisis and the NAACP -- under Suspicion 132 -- 6. "I thank my God for the persecution": The Church of God in Christ -- under Attack 149 -- 7. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Window on freedom race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988 /

Table of Contents: “…Seen from the outside : the international perspective on America's dilemma / Paul Gordon Lauren -- Race from power : U.S. foreign policy and the general crisis of white supremacy / Gerald Horne -- Brown babies : race, gender, and policy after World War II / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- Bleached souls and Red Negroes : the NAACP and Black Communists in the early Cold War, 1948-1952 / Cary Fraser -- An American dilemma : race and realpolitik in the American response to the Bandung Conference, 1955 / Cary Fraser -- Segregationists and the world : the foreign policy of the white resistance / Thomas Noer -- The unwelcome mat : African diplomats in Washington, D.C., during the Kennedy years / Michael Krenn -- Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the image of America : international influence on U.S. civil rights politics in the Kennedy administration / Mary L. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Window on freedom race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988 /

Table of Contents: “…Seen from the outside : the international perspective on America's dilemma / Paul Gordon Lauren -- Race from power : U.S. foreign policy and the general crisis of white supremacy / Gerald Horne -- Brown babies : race, gender, and policy after World War II / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- Bleached souls and Red Negroes : the NAACP and Black Communists in the early Cold War, 1948-1952 / Cary Fraser -- An American dilemma : race and realpolitik in the American response to the Bandung Conference, 1955 / Cary Fraser -- Segregationists and the world : the foreign policy of the white resistance / Thomas Noer -- The unwelcome mat : African diplomats in Washington, D.C., during the Kennedy years / Michael Krenn -- Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the image of America : international influence on U.S. civil rights politics in the Kennedy administration / Mary L. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Charles H. Houston an interdisciplinary study of civil rights leadership / by Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950

Table of Contents: “…Darnell Weeden -- Chapter 9: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Development of the NAACP's Legal Assault on Jim Crow: The Texas White Primary as a Case Study -- Cary D. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Charles H. Houston an interdisciplinary study of civil rights leadership / by Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950

Table of Contents: “…Darnell Weeden -- Chapter 9: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Development of the NAACP's Legal Assault on Jim Crow: The Texas White Primary as a Case Study -- Cary D. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Boston's Histories : Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor /

Table of Contents: “…Gelfand -- The politics of sex and race in Boston's NAACP, 1920-1940 / Sarah Deutsch -- The last hurrah and the pluralist vision of American politics / James J. …”
Full text available:

Boston's Histories : Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor /

Table of Contents: “…Gelfand -- The politics of sex and race in Boston's NAACP, 1920-1940 / Sarah Deutsch -- The last hurrah and the pluralist vision of American politics / James J. …”
Full text available:

Deluxe Jim Crow civil rights and American health policy, 1935-1954 / by Thomas, Karen Kruse

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Saving the soul of Georgia : Donald L. Hollowell and the struggle for civil rights / by Daniels, Maurice Charles, 1952-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith / by Hammer, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Keith -- College life: West Virginia State College -- "The finest man I've ever known" -- 1943: war in the streets/war overseas -- Howard University School of Law: the West Point of civil rights -- Leaping the bar -- Rachel -- Taking a chance: life as a young lawyer -- A room on the second floor: rebuilding Detroit's NAACP -- "Get out on your own": how Damon Keith became his own start-up -- A leader emerges: from Jack Kennedy to Willie Horton -- Detroit 1967: the fire this time -- Approaching the bench: the long and winding politics of becoming a judge -- Into the maelstrom: busing in Pontiac -- Housing in Hamtramck and discrimination at Detroit Edison -- Taking on the Nixon White House: the Keith case -- Affirmative action in the Detroit Police Department -- "Tell him Thurgood's on the line" -- "Here, boy, park this car" -- Strange bedfellows: Damon Keith and Clarence Thomas -- Swimming upstream: ideological and political shifts in the courts -- "Democracies die behind closed doors" -- The Keith law clerk family -- Friends along the way: from Rosa to Russia -- "I don't work on your plantation!"…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Deluxe Jim Crow civil rights and American health policy, 1935-1954 / by Thomas, Karen Kruse

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view