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Our Minds on Freedom(2020) FRYSTAK, SHANNONExplores the organisational and leadership roles female civil rights activists in Louisiana played from the 1920s to the 1960s. Shannon Frystak highlights a diverse group of courageous women who fought alongside their brothers and fathers, uncles and cousVezava: Mehka57,03 € -
Challenging U.S. Apartheid(2006) GRADY-WILLIS, WINSTON A.A history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city's first Black mayor, in 1977. It highlights the work of grassroots activists, who taVezava: Mehka29,93 € -
Queen of America Goes to Washington City(1997) BERLANT, LAURENFocuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, this title addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of publicVezava: Mehka44,89 € -
Portable Frederick Douglass(2016) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKThe life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to reconstruction. His influence was felt in the political sphere, major social movements, literary culture, and even international affairs. This iVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
The Light of Truth (Penguin Classics)(2014) WELLS, IDAThrough brilliant social analysis, the author exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic progress in the southern USA. This book tells her story.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Loving Before Loving(2021) LESTER, JOAN STEINAUBraiding intellectual, personal, and political history, Joan Lester tells the story of a writer and activist fighting for love and justice before, during, and after the Supreme Court's 1967 decision striking down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v.Vezava: Trda37,41 € -
Trigger Warning(2016) HUME, MICKConcise and Abridged Edition Do we really have the right to say the ‘wrong’ thing? ‘I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd’ GuardianVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Blood Brothers(2016) SMITH, JOHNNY,ROBERTS, RANDYThe basis of the Netflix documentary BLOOD BROTHERS, the first book to bring to life the fateful friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad AliVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Prosecutorial Accountability and Victims' Rights in Latin America(2018) MICHEL, VERONICA (JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)In some Latin American countries, private prosecution improves access to justice for victims of crime as well as human rights violations. By examining how citizens use this right to push states to hold perpetrators accountable, Verónica Michel highlightsVezava: Trda176,72 € -









