"A street chaplain, activist, and nonprofit leader invites you on a spiritual journey to the margins of American society and to the front lines of social justice movements where faith means getting your hands dirty in the struggle for a better world"-- Provided by publisher.

Provides access to the historical documents of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. The Commission examines and endeavors to resolve issues related to race, ethnicity, religion and, more recently, sexual orientation. Documents are searchable by title, date, subject, and SUDOC number using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

"Hubert Humphrey, a fallen hero and a dying man, rose on rickety legs to approach the podium of the Philadelphia Convention Hall, his pulpit for the commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania. He clutched a sheaf of paper with his speech for the occasion, typed and double-spaced by an assistant from his extemporaneous dictation, and then marked up in pencil by Humphrey himself. A note on the first page, circled to draw particular attention,...

Documentary of the first 'Freedom Ride', undertaken in 1947 by a bi-racial group challenging Jim Crow laws in bus transportation. Jim Crow laws maintained separate and discriminatory accommodations on all public transportation at that time.

This book is the first history in forty years of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The author, who has been member of the commission for more than twenty years and chairperson for more than a decade, describes its founding in 1957 by President Eisenhower in response to the burgeoning civil rights protest. She makes clear that, from the outset, the commission was designed to be an independent bipartisan federal agency, beholden to no government body,...

"A nonfiction book detailing the case of Isaac Woodard, its influence on Judge J. Waties Waring, and how Waring went on to lay the groundwork for landmark civil rights rulings"-- Provided by publisher.

Ford illuminates the powerhouse fund-raising effort that supported the Civil Rights Movement: luncheons, galas, card parties and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry. Mollie Moon lived abroad in the 1930s but came home to fight against Jim Crow segregation in the United States. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples...