Civil Rights Act
-
-
At America's Gates
- Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
- Written by: Erika Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of US immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out.
-
At America's Gates
- Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-03
- Language: English
-
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of US immigration history, but we know little about its consequences....
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wish list failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Price: $22.26 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $22.26 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
- Studies in American Constitutional Heritage
- Written by: Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, Justin J. Wert
- Narrated by: Bill Burrows
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On June 25, 2013, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. The decision - the culmination of an eight-year battle over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections - marked the closing of a chapter in American politics. That chapter had opened a century earlier in the case of Guinn v. United States, which ushered in national efforts to knock down racial barriers to the ballot.
-
The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
- Studies in American Constitutional Heritage
- Narrated by: Bill Burrows
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-23
- Language: English
- On June 25, 2013, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law....
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wish list failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Price: $26.82 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $26.82 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Bill of the Century
- The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
- Written by: Clay Risen
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. It gave the government sweeping powers to strike down segregation, to enforce fair hiring practices, and to rectify bias in law enforcement and in the courts. The Act so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, "it seems preordained", as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, "no force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." But there was nothing predestined about the victory.
-
The Bill of the Century
- The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2014-04-01
- Language: English
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history....
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wish list failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Price: $37.53 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $37.53 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
White Lawyer, Black Power
- A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South
- Written by: Donald A. Jelinek
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years. In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans, risking his career and his life to further the struggle for racial equality.
-
White Lawyer, Black Power
- A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2020-12-22
- Language: English
-
Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years....
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wish list failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Price: $27.83 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $27.83 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Insurrection
- Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
- Written by: Hawa Allan
- Narrated by: Hawa Allan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts. Its power is integrally linked to the perceived threat of Black American equity in what lawyer and critic Hawa Allan demonstrates is a dangerous paradox. While the act was initially used to repress rebellion against slavery, during Reconstruction it was invoked by President Grant to quell white-supremacist uprisings in the South.
-
Insurrection
- Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
- Narrated by: Hawa Allan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2022-04-12
- Language: English
-
The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts....
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wish list failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Price: $22.26 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $22.26 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Affirmative Action Puzzle
- A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
- Written by: Melvin I. Urofsky
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 21 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis and Dissent and the Supreme Court a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, mandating that federal contractors take "affirmative action" to ensure that there be no discrimination by "race, creed, color, or national origin" down to today’s American society.
-
The Affirmative Action Puzzle
- A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 21 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2020-01-28
- Language: English
-
A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous times....
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wish list failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Price: $34.96 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $34.96 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Engagement
- America's Quarter-Century Struggle over Same-Sex Marriage
- Written by: Sasha Issenberg
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable.
-
The Engagement
- America's Quarter-Century Struggle over Same-Sex Marriage
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-01
- Language: English
-
The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium....
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wish list failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Price: $40.79 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $40.79 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Enabling Acts
- The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
- Written by: Lennard Davis
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA - the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the surprising story behind how the bill came to be is little known.
-
-
Important Disability History
- By Luke D. on 2019-04-05
-
Enabling Acts
- The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2015-07-14
- Language: English
- The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA - the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights....
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wish list failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Price: $31.26 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $31.26 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act
- A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
- Written by: Christopher M. Finan
- Narrated by: Christopher M. Finan
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act traces the fight for free speech from the turn of the 19th century through the War on Terror. Christopher Finan has given us a vital history of our most fundamental, and most vulnerable, constitutional right.
-
From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act
- A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
- Narrated by: Christopher M. Finan
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-18
- Language: English
-
From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act traces the fight for free speech from the turn of the 19th century through the War on Terror. Christopher Finan has given us a vital history of our most fundamental, and most vulnerable, constitutional right....
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wish list failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Price: $23.31 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $23.31 or 1 Credit
-