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Author | : Ralph Abernathy |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : African American clergy |
ISBN | : 9781569762790 |
The number-two manin the civil rights movement, Abernathy poignantly recalls his life from his poverty-striken childhood, his cofounding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and march to freedom at the side of his close friend Martin Luther King to his current fight for dignity and human rights worldwide. Illustrated.
Author | : Michael S Lief |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1416548637 |
The second volume in a must-have trilogy of the best closing arguments in American legal history Every day, Americans enjoy the freedom to decide what we do with our property, our bodies, our speech, and our votes. However, the rights to these freedoms have not always been guaranteed. Our civil rights have been assured by cases that have produced monumental shifts in America's cultural, political, and legal landscapes. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down showcases eight of the most exciting closing arguments in civil law -- from the Amistad case, in which John Quincy Adams brought the injustice of slavery to the center stage of American politics, to the Susan B. Anthony decision, which paved the way to success for women's suffrage, to the Larry Flynt trial, in which the porn king became an unlikely champion for freedom of speech. By providing historical and biographical details, as well as the closing arguments themselves, Lief and Caldwell give readers the background necessary to fully understand these important cases, bringing them vividly to life.
Author | : BABS H. DEAL |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Gale Stokes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1993-10-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199879192 |
Gale Stokes' The Walls Came Tumbling Down has been one of the standard interpretations of the East European revolutions of 1989 for many years. It offers a sweeping yet vivid narrative of the two decades of developments that led from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the collapse of communism in 1989. Highlights of that narrative include, among other things, discussions of Solidarity and civil society in Poland, Charter 77 and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and the bizarre regime of Romania's Nikolae Ceausescu and his violent downfall. In this second edition, now appropriately subtitled Collapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe, Stokes not only has revised these portions of the book in the light of recent scholarship, but has added three new chapters covering the post-communist period, including analyses of the unification of Germany and the collapse of the Soviet Union, narratives of the admission of many of the countries of the region to the European Union, and discussion of the unfortunate outcomes of the Wars of Yugoslav Succession in the Western Balkans.
Author | : Daniel Rachel |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1447272706 |
Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and 'the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang'. Through the voices of campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, Daniel Rachel follows the rise and fall of three key movements of the time: Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone, and Red Wedge, revealing how they all shaped, and were shaped by, the music of a generation. Composed of interviews with over a hundred and fifty of the key players at the time, Walls Come Tumbling Down is a fascinating, polyphonic and authoritative account of those crucial sixteen years in Britain's history.
Author | : Steve J. Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Sarotte |
Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465064949 |
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall—infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe—seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime—nor was it the result of a bargain between either Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It was an accident. In The Collapse, prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte reveals how a perfect storm of decisions made by daring underground revolutionaries, disgruntled Stasi officers, and dictatorial party bosses sparked an unexpected series of events culminating in the chaotic fall of the Wall. With a novelist’s eye for character and detail, she brings to vivid life a story that sweeps across Budapest, Prague, Dresden, and Leipzig and up to the armed checkpoints in Berlin. We meet the revolutionaries Roland Jahn, Aram Radomski, and Siggi Schefke, risking it all to smuggle the truth across the Iron Curtain; the hapless Politburo member Günter Schabowski, mistakenly suggesting that the Wall is open to a press conference full of foreign journalists, including NBC’s Tom Brokaw; and Stasi officer Harald Jäger, holding the fort at the crucial border crossing that night. Soon, Brokaw starts broadcasting live from Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, where the crowds are exulting in the euphoria of newfound freedom—and the dictators are plotting to restore control. Drawing on new archival sources and dozens of interviews, The Collapse offers the definitive account of the night that brought down the Berlin Wall.
Author | : Frank Fitzpatrick |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780803269019 |
The story of the 1966 NCAA Championship game, the first time that a team with an all-black starting five, Texas Western, faced a team with an all-white starting five, Kentucky. Don Haskins was the Texas Western coach.
Author | : Tania de Rozario |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780999451403 |
Author | : Robert Anton Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996-04 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : 9781561840915 |
This text deals with things that happen to those who stumble into a borderless or other-worldly consciousness without intent. It is also a guide to help them navigate.