From Civil Rights to Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Civil Rights to Human Rights write by Thomas F. Jackson. This book was released on 2007. From Civil Rights to Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Civil Rights to Human Rights examines King's lifelong commitments to economic equality, racial justice, and international peace. Drawing upon broad research in published sources and unpublished manuscript collections, Jackson positions King within the social movements and momentous debates of his time.
Bringing Human Rights Home: From civil rights to human rights
Bringing Human Rights Home: From civil rights to human rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bringing Human Rights Home: From civil rights to human rights write by Cynthia Soohoo. This book was released on 2008. Bringing Human Rights Home: From civil rights to human rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This three-volume set chronicles the history of human rights in the United States from the perspective of domestic social justice activism. First, the set examines the political forces and historic events that resulted in the U.S.'s failure to embrace human rights principles at home while actively (albeit selectively) championing and promoting human rights abroad. It then considers the current explosion of human rights activism around issues within the United States and the way human rights is transforming domestic social justice work. The first volume provides a historical perspective on the United States' ambivalent relationship with the international human rights movement. It examines the implications of recognizing domestic rights violations as a matter of international concern and the relationship between international and domestic law. It also addresses the role the Cold War and Southern opposition to international scrutiny of its Jim Crow policies and segregation played in shaping U.S. attitudes toward human rights generally and social and economic rights in particular. These factors forced social justice organizations to largely abandon employing a human rights framework in their domestic work and had a lasting impact on U.S. perspectives about fundamental rights and the role of government. The set also chronicles current domestic human rights work. Volumes two and three consider why domestic activists currently are using human rights and the tactical advantages and practical challenges posed by such strategies. These volumes cover everything from globalization to terrorism and the erosion of civil rights protections that led to a renewed interest in human rights; human rights versus civil rights strategies; and the different ways human rights can support social activism.
Eyes Off the Prize
Eyes Off the Prize - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eyes Off the Prize write by Carol Elaine Anderson. This book was released on 2003-04-21. Eyes Off the Prize available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book was first published in 2003. As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horror wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, African American leaders, led by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), sensed the opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in America. The 'prize' they sought was not civil rights, but human rights. Only the human rights lexicon, shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations, contained the language and the moral power to address not only the political and legal inequality but also the education, health care, housing, and employment needs that haunted the black community. But the onset of the Cold War and rising anti-communism allowed powerful Southerners to cast those rights as Soviet-inspired. Thus the Civil Rights Movement was launched with neither the language nor the mission it needed to truly achieve black equality.
Roma Rights and Civil Rights
Roma Rights and Civil Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roma Rights and Civil Rights write by Felix B. Chang. This book was released on 2020-03-26. Roma Rights and Civil Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book-length work to offer a sustained comparison of Roma and African Americans.
A Nation of Widening Opportunities
A Nation of Widening Opportunities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Nation of Widening Opportunities write by Ellen D. Katz. This book was released on 2015. A Nation of Widening Opportunities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On October 11, 2013, a diverse group of civil rights scholars met at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor to assess the interpretation, development, and administration of civil rights law in the five decades since President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. In the volume that follows, readers will find edited versions of the papers that these scholars presented, enriched by our lively discussions at and after the conference. We hope that the essays in this volume will contribute to the continuing debates regarding the civil rights project in the United States and the world.
