civil rights

A historical overview of the movement for freedom and equality for blacks in the United States.

Provides a historical overview of the case that desegregated public education in the United States.

Focuses on this one area of human rights, and considers how employee rights have been established, and how they work, or are overlooked, in societies around the world.

Examines ideas and arguments behind the case that brought about equal schooling for all.

Examines the link between gay rights and three successful civil rights movements, black civil rights, feminism, and religious toleration, and explains how those three movements can serve as an example for the gay civil rights movement.

Argues that anti-immigration groups are racist; explores the history of violence against immigrants; and contends that the United States needs to adopt a pro-worker and pro-immigrant agenda.

A collection of writings in which some of the thousands of men, women, and children being held in indefinite detention in the United States recount their impressions of America's War on Terror.

Examines the history of racism in the United States, pointing to slavery as the root of the country's continuing racial divide, and arguing that attention to the past, acknowledgement of wrongdoing by the white community, an apology, and reparations to African-Americans are the only way to eliminate racism.

Scrutinizes each United States president's record on racial issues, exposing the country's chief executives' long history of deterring the progress of racial relations.