civil rights

Introduces readers to the life and accomplishments of civil rights activist and U.S. Congressman John Lewis through simple text and full-color illustrations.

Daniel Hernandez Jr. describes the accomplishments of his young life, including going to U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords' aid when she was shot in 2011. Presented in Spanish.

"Rich Wallace and Sandra Neil Wallace explore what led [Jonathan Myrick] Daniels to the moment of his death, the trial of his murderer, and how these events helped reshape both the legal and political climate of Lowndes County and the nation"--Amazon.

Describes an encounter between New Orleans police and several black residents on the Danziger Bridge six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall that ended in violence. Investigates the resulting cover-up, and the efforts to get the victims' families justice.

Eighteen people share their stories of being swept up in the War on Terror, and who have found themselves subject to rendition and torture, to workplace discrimination, bullying, or FBI surveillance and harassment.

Three individuals experience prejudice differently against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, from 1954 to 1964, and each develops their own concept of freedom. Twelve-year-old Joan Barnes considers freedom her birthright as the child of upper middle class Yankee Catholics in Mississippi. C.J. Evans was born to a life of cleaning whitefolks' houses and freedom is what she holds in her heart and can't be taken from her. And for Zach Bernstein, a Jewish University of Chicago law student, freedom is an ever-expanding circle that can only get bigger. As the lives of these three collide when Zach comes to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to teach at the Meridian Freedom School, they will each come to question their concepts of freedom and what price they are willing to pay for it.

In his book, Moustafa Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect their surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in a space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people make. In his essays, Bayoumi exposes how contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim-American past, but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present.