Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall
Author: Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2001-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1613746407

Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral arguments for the landmark school desegregation cases, investigative reports on race riots and racism in the Army, speeches and articles outlining the history of civil rights and criticizing the actions of more conservative jurists, Supreme Court opinions now widely cited in Constitutional law, a long and complete oral autobiography, and much more. Marshall's impact on American race relations was greater than that of anyone else this century, for it was he who ended legal segregation in the United States. His victories as a lawyer for the NAACP broke the color line in housing, transportation, voting, and schools by overturning the long-established &“separate-but-equal&” doctrine. But Marshall was attentive to all social inequalities: no Supreme Court justice has ever been more consistent in support of freedom of expression, affirmative action, women's rights, abortion rights, and the right to consensual sex among adults; no justice has ever fought so hard against economic inequality, police brutality, and capital punishment.

From the Kingdom of Memory

From the Kingdom of Memory
Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 259
Release: 1995-01-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0805210202

In this "powerful" (New York Times Book review) collection of personal essays and landmark speeches by "one of the great writers of our generation" (New Republic), Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a leading advocate of humanity and have earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. Here, too, as a tribute to the dead and an exhortation to the living are landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the Klaus Barbie trial, his impassioned plea to President Reagan not to visit a German S.S. cemetery, and the speech he gave in Oslo in acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, in which he voices his hope that "the memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil."

Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall
Author: Geoffrey M. Horn
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2004-01-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780836850987

An introduction to the life and accomplishments of the African American civil rights attorney who became a prominent Supreme Court justice.

Churchill: Historical Books, Memoirs, Essays, Speeches & Letters

Churchill: Historical Books, Memoirs, Essays, Speeches & Letters
Author: Winston Churchill
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 3854
Release: 2023-12-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This ebook collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Introduction: Winston Spencer Churchill by Richard Harding Davis The Influenza Novel: Savrola Biographies: Lord Randolph Churchill Marlborough: His Life and Times Historical Works: The Story of the Malakand Field Force The River War London to Ladysmith via Pretoria Ian Hamilton's March My African Journey The World Crisis 1911–1914 The Second World War The Gathering Storm Their Finest Hour A History of the English-Speaking Peoples The Birth of Britain The New World Essays & Articles: Painting as a Pastime Zionism versus Bolshevism Fifty Years Hence East London General Bullar's Headquarters Mr. Winston Churchill's Capture Speeches: Liberalism and the Social Problem The Conduct of the War by Sea Speech in the London Opera House Speech in the Tournament Hall, Liverpool First Radio Address as Prime Minister Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat Be Ye Men of Valour We Shall Fight on the Beaches Their Finest Hour The Few – Never was so Much Owed by so Many to so Few Broadcast on the Soviet-German War Never Give In, Never, Never, Never Winston Churchill's address to the United States Congress The Price of Greatness is Responsibility Announcement of the Surrender of Germany Sinews of Peace – The Iron Curtain Speech Letters of Winston Churchill My Early Life – A Roving Commission (An Autobiography)

Isadora Speaks

Isadora Speaks
Author: Isadora Duncan
Publisher: Charles H Kerr Publishing Company
Total Pages: 149
Release: 1994
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780882862279

This outstanding collection of the great dancer's heretofore uncollected writings and speeches gives us a vivid new perception of her importance as an original and radical thinker. Starting with reminiscences of her San Francisco childhood, Isadora Speaks features her outspoken views on America, revolutionary Russia, education and the arts, life with Russian poet Serge Esenin, love, woman's emancipation, and dance as a radical force capable of transforming the world and changing life. Prefaced by dance scholar Ann Barzel, this new edition also includes an updated foreword by Franklin Rosemont on Isadora's extraordinarily diverse and always expanding influence, and fifteen new illustrations.

Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation

Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation
Author: H. Kumarasingham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000094820

Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation explores the subject of liberalism and its uses and contradictions across the late British Empire, especially in the context of imperial dissolution and subsequent state- building. The book covers multiple regions and issues concerning the British Empire and the Commonwealth, in particular the period ranging from the late-nineteenth century to the late- twentieth century. Original intellectual contributions are offered along with new arguments on critical issues in imperial history that will appeal to a wide range of scholars, including those outside of history. Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation exposes commonalities, contradictions and contexts of different types of liberalism that animated the late British Empire and its rulers, radicals, subjects and citizens as they attempted to forge new states from its shadow and understand the impact of imperialism. This book examines the complexities of the idea and quest for self-government in the last stages of the British Empire. It also argues the importance of the political, intellectual and empirical aspects of liberalism to understand the process of decolonisation. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered

Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered
Author: John Channing Briggs
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2005-06-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801881060

In this close examination, John Channing Briggs reveals how the process of studying, writing, and delivering speeches helped Lincoln develop the ideas with which he would so profoundly change history.