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Justice rising : Robert Kennedy's America in black and white / by Sullivan, Patricia,1950-author.(CARDINAL)778166;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-491) and index.Preface: "The best a white America has to offer" -- Misfit -- Along the color line: the 1950s -- Faith, hope, and politics -- Black votes -- Simple justice -- The challenge of a decade -- Freedom now -- "A great change is at hand" -- On his own -- Transitions -- Beyond civil rights -- Suppose God is Black -- Reckoning -- The gravest crisis since the Civil War -- Our country's future -- A time of danger and questioning -- The last of the believables -- Epilogue."A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s--and shows how many of today's issues can be traced back to that pivotal time"--
Subjects: Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.; Civil rights movements; Racial justice; Black people;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Soul food [videorecording]. by Dunbar, Rockmond,1973-actor.; Henson, Darrin Dewitt,actor.(CARDINAL)549750; Kodjoe, Boris,1973-actor.(CARDINAL)863644; CBS DVD (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)544739; Paramount Pictures Corporation,publisher.(CARDINAL)141482; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation,production company.(CARDINAL)137420;
The aftermath -- Welcome home -- Who do you know? -- God bless the child -- Sex and money -- Come back for the comeback -- Games people play -- Life lessons -- The root -- Never can say goodbye -- I'm afraid of Americans -- Running as fast as I can -- Fly away home -- If you don't know me by now ... -- From dreams to nightmares -- A taste of justice -- Help -- Lovers and other strangers -- In transition -- This must be love.Rockmond Dunbar, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Boris Kodjoe, Aaron Meeks, Nicole Ari Parker, Vanessa A. Williams, Malinda Williams.Based on the critically acclaimed film of the same name, the show reunites the Joseph family in an hour-long drama series, which chronicles the lives of a tight-knit African American family living in Chicago. The series explores, in an honest and touching way, the relationship between three sisters, the men in their lives and their children. The Joseph family faces everyday struggles to which all families can relate. It is not your typical family; it is simply the drama of a family.Rating: Not rated :DVD, NTSC, region 1, wide screen (4:3) presentation; Dolby stereo.
Subjects: Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; African American families; African American women; Man-woman relationships; Sisters;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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We are not slaves : state violence, coerced labor, and prisoners' rights in postwar America / by Chase, Robert T.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-506) and index."In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by Texas, southern states adopted northern prison design reforms. However, the transition to penitentiary cells only made the endemic violence more secretive, and the reformers' efforts had only made things worse--now it was up to the prisoners to fight for change. Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert T. Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. Told from the vantage point of the prisoners themselves, this book highlights untold but devastatingly important truths about the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the United States"--
Subjects: Prisoners; Prisoners; Convict labor; Prisoners; African American prisoners.; Mexican American prisoners.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The plot to save South Africa : the week Mandela averted civil war and forged a new nation / by Malala, Justice,author(CARDINAL)865358;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-321) and index"A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine days in the life of a country on the edge, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war"--
Subjects: Hani, Chris, 1942-1993; Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013; De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Exploring and understanding careers in criminal justice : a comprehensive guide / by Sheridan, Matthew J.,1948-author.(CARDINAL)411365; Rainville, Raymond R.,1943-author.(CARDINAL)411364;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-282) and indexes.This book explores the criminal justice career landscape by providing a glimpse into the different criminal justice careers and provides advice as to how to prepare to enter those career fields. This book includes personal profiles that exemplify real work in the criminal justice profession; these have been written by current employees, some retired and some by exemplary leaders in the field.
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of; Law enforcement;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Race for profit : how banks and the real estate industry undermined Black homeownership / by Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta,author.(CARDINAL)625005;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-333) and index.Homeowner's business -- unfair housing -- the business of the urban housing crisis -- forced integration -- let the buyer beware -- unsophisticated buyers -- the urban crisis is over-long live the urban crisis -- predatory inclusion."Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a ... chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Widespread access to mortgages across the United States after World War II cemented homeownership as fundamental to conceptions of citizenship and belonging. African Americans had long faced racist obstacles to homeownership, but the social upheaval of the 1960s forced federal government reforms. In the 1970s, new housing policies encouraged African Americans to become homeowners, and these programs generated unprecedented real estate sales in Black urban communities. However, inclusion in the world of urban real estate was fraught with new problems. As new housing policies came into effect, the real estate industry abandoned its aversion to African Americans, especially Black women, precisely because they were more likely to fail to keep up their home payments and slip into foreclosure"--
Subjects: Discrimination in housing; Discrimination in mortgage loans; Urban African Americans; African American women; Real estate business;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Revolutionary power : an activist's guide to the energy transition / by Baker, Shalanda H.,author.;
Energy, energy justice, and civil rights -- Utility reform : the linchpin to transforming the energy system -- Ending climate change fundamentalism -- The fight for local power -- Community energy : the devil is in the details -- Access to capital : a way to end solar segregation -- Revolutionary power."Climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate and distribute energy and regulate the system. But how much are we willing to change the system? This unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system, and thus, an opportunity to transform society. Revolutionary Power shows us how."--Back cover.Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-204) and index.
Subjects: Energy policy.; Poor; Energy development.; Renewable natural resources.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The plot to save South Africa : the week Mandela averted civil war and forged a new nation / by Malala, Justice,author.(CARDINAL)865358;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine days in the life of a country on the edge, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's protaegae by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war"--
Subjects: Biographies.; De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem); Hani, Chris, 1942-1993; Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Proverbs & Ecclesiastes / by Treier, Daniel J.,1972-(CARDINAL)463062;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes."Pastors and leaders of the classical church interpreted the Bible theologically, believing Scripture as a whole witnessed to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Modern interpreters of the Bible questioned this premise. But in recent decades, a critical mass of theologians and biblical scholars has begun to reassert the priority of a theological reading of Scripture....
Subjects: Bible.; Bible.;
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Bridging revolutions : the lives of Chief Justices Richmond Pearson and John Belton O'Neall / by Ranney, Joseph A.,1952-Author(DLC)n 00096038 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.Introduction -- Formative years in the Piedmont -- Early storms : nullification and O'Neall's freedom quintet -- Wrestling with slavery and state sovereignty -- Disputes corporate and domestic -- Leges inter arma : the judges' civil war -- Reconstructing Southern law -- The Kirk-Holden war and the crisis of reconstruction -- Final years -- The judges' legacies."Bridging Revolutions examines the lives of North Carolina chief justice Richmond Pearson (1805-1878) and South Carolina chief justice John Belton O'Neall (1793-1863) and their impact on the South's transition from a slave to a free society. Joseph A. Ranney documents how the two judges fought to preserve the Union and protect basic civil rights for both white and Black southerners before and after the Civil War. Pearson's and O'Neall's lives were marked by contrarianism and controversy. Prior to the Civil War, they took important steps to soften slave law during times marked by calls for more discipline and control of slaves. O'Neall, a committed Unionist, resisted his state's nullification movement during the 1830s and put an end to that movement with a crucial 1834 decision. Pearson was the only southern supreme court justice whose service spanned the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras. During the Civil War, he stoutly defended North Carolinians' civil rights against incursions by the central Confederate government. After the war, he urged the South to accept "the world as it is" rather than oppose civil rights for freed slaves, and he did more than any other southern judge to protect those rights and to reshape southern state law. Examined in conjunction, the two judges' colorful public and private lives illuminate the complex relationship between southern law and culture during times of deep crisis and change"--.
Subjects: Biographies.; History.; Pearson, Richmond Mumford, 1805-1878.; O'Neall, John Belton, 1793-1863.; Judges; Justice, Administration of; Judges; Justice, Administration of; Judges; Justice, Administration of;
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