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"This title will inform readers about the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The title will discuss those involved, such as John F. Kennedy--who spoke about civil rights in 1963--as well as Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and more. Vivid details, well-chosen photographs, and primary sources bring this story and this case to life."--Publisher's website....
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Jesse Jackson is a modern day highway robber, says veteran investigative reporter Kenneth R. Timmerman, who uses cries of racism to steal from individuals, corporations, and government, to give to himself. Until now, however, no one has been brave enough to say it and diligent enough to prove it. But Ken Timmerman has cracked Jackson's machine, found Jackson cronies willing to break ranks, and uncovered a sordid tale of greed, ambition, and corruption...
3) Making the movement: how activists fought for civil rights with buttons, flyers, pins, and posters
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From Reconstruction through Jim Crow, through the protest era of the 1960s and '70s, to current-day resistance and activism such as the Black Lives Matter movement, the material culture of the Civil Rights Movement has been integral to its goals and tactics. During decades of sit-ins, marches, legal challenges, political campaigns, boycotts, and demonstrations, objects such as buttons, flyers, pins, and posters have been key in the fight against racism,...
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First published in 1862 after Dostoyevsky's imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, "The House of the Dead" is a collection of memoirs, related by themes, that portrays the horrific life of convicts. The author drew on his own experiences in prison to depict the squalor, destitution, and severity of a Siberian camp with remorseless detail. Dostoyevsky reveals the characters of many of the other convicts, which includes the depravity many have come...
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"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...
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A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights-and how to fight back.
Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders' vision for the nation? In When They Come For You, New York Times bestselling author David Kirby exposes federal, state, and local violations of basic...
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The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement. Informed by...
11) Juicio a la exclusión: El impacto de los tribunales sobre los derechos sociales en el Sur Global
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De un tiempo a esta parte, los sistemas jurídicos de América Latina han experimentado enormes transformaciones, como la creación de nuevas prácticas de litigio orientadas al cambio social y la reforma estructural. Ante estas experiencias, impensables poco tiempo atrás en los entornos jurídicos formalistas típicos de la región, los tribunales comienzan a ofrecer respuestas originales sobre las que todavía hay mucho que investigar y otro tanto...
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One of the hallmark features of the post–civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law. But how, precisely, should we understand this notion of colorblindness in the face of enduring racial hierarchy in American society? In Letters of the Law, Sora Y. Han argues that colorblindness is a foundational fantasy of law that not only informs individual and collective ideas of race, but also structures...
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La capacidad es un tema de interés transversal en el derecho, está presente en todos sus ámbitos. Es un atributo que tiene todo sujeto a través del cual puede realizar actos que no le estén prohibidos. Desde el 2018, a través del Decreto Legislativo 1384, contamos con un nuevo tratamiento de la capacidad en el Código Civil que se adecúa a las directrices en pro de la autonomía y la plena capacidad jurídica de las personas con discapacidad,...
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En los últimos años el fenómeno de la corrupción ha impactado significativamente en la región latinoamericana. En ese contexto, el libro analiza las instituciones, mecanismos, legislación y jurisprudencia que dan lugar al ius anticorruptionis commune latinoamericanum, pues se requiere conformar una cultura jurídica común anticorrupción para dar tratamiento a la amenaza que representa para los derechos humanos. Se enfatiza que la lucha anticorrupción...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America.
Mumia Abu Jamal, black, was convicted and sentenced to death in July 1982 for the murder of white police officer Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981. He has steadfastly...
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This series of essays address the ongoing debate centered on how patriotism is, defined and who is a patriot. True patriotism is much broader than how it has been traditionally, described in American society. There is a spirit of opposition within the nation's history that has never been, credited for being the primary source of developing American democracy.
"On Resistance" makes the case that activist groups such as the Black Panther Party for...
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¿Mis derechos terminan donde empiezan los de los demás? ¿Es más importante el derecho a la libre circulación que a una vida digna? ¿Qué respuesta ofrece la justicia? Carta abierta sobre la intolerancia entabla un diálogo con aquellos que exigen, por parte del derecho, una respuesta más severa hacia quienes protestan: los que reaccionan ante el maltrato estatal o empresarial, los que se manifiestan por salarios decentes, los que cortan calles...
18) Social Security: The New Rules, Essentials & Maximizing Your Social Security, Retirement, Medicar
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Let's be honest, Social Security can be complicated. Social Security is vital to many people's retirement plans. Yet is so shrouded in uncertainty.
There are so many different rules, income limitations, age requirements, cut-offs, and so on that it can drive a person mad.
Your choices influence the size of your Social Security checks and making mistakes could accidentally shrink them. Understanding how your decisions affect your Social Security...
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Democracy Detained exposes the deplorable secret crimes committed by the Bush administration in their war on terror. Prominent legal activist Barbara Olshansky documents the assault on our constitutional democracy since 9/11, meticulously analyzing the unlawful justifications made by the U.S. government for covert actions at home and abroad. She reports on current shocking practices, from the outsourcing of torture through extraordinary rendition,...
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Importance of Right to information is growing day to day to bring the transparency in the administration and the governmental works. The Government of India has notified 'The Right to Information Act, 2005', vide the Gazette of India; Extraordinary Part II-Section I, New Delhi, Tuesday, June 21, 2005. This is an Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control...
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