Why We Can't Wait (Signet Classics)
by Jr., Dr. Martin Luther King
from Signet Classics
In 1963, Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. launched the Civil Rights movement and demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Why We Can't Wait recounts not only the Birmingham campaign, but also examines the history of the civil rights struggle and the tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality for African Americans. Dr. King's eloquent analysis of these events propelled the Civil Rights movement from lunch counter sit-ins and prayer marches to the forefront of the American consciousness.
With a special new afterword by The Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Afraid of the Dark: What Whites and Blacks Need to Know about Each Other
by Jim Myers
from Lawrence Hill Books
Finally, here is the definitive answer for anyone who has contact with people of another race-in companies, schools, neighborhoods, or other social situations-a book that finally reveals that race is not the unfathomable mystery it is usually made out to be. In a revealing, accessible, and stimulating discussion based on little-known facts and innovative research, this book explains why whites are uneasy about blacks and how blacks react to this, why blacks suspect the worst from whites and why white explanations don't work, why myths about sex remain so prevalent, and what they can do together to make their relations better.
A More Perfect Union
by Jesse Jackson
from Welcome Rain Publishers
In this new work, Jackson provides ample documentation and insightful analysis of the inextricable link between race and economics.
Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future
by Jesse Jackson
from New Press
An urgent, eloquent call for the abolition of the death penalty in America, from the father and son who are leading the fight against state-sponsored execution.
With public opinion polls showing opposition to the death penalty at its highest level in twenty years, this timely book by two of America's most important civil rights leaders and the Nation's criminal justice reporter makes a passionate and persuasive case against capital punishment. Combining a powerful moral argument with recent, overwhelming evidence of systematic legal error and widespread racial bias in death penalty cases, Legal Lynching directly attacks the basic claims of those—including our new president—who continue to insist on execution as a punitive solution for an increasing number of crimes. With the abolition of the death penalty in South Africa, the United States has become the last industrialized democracy to persist in state-sponsored execution.
Grounded in stories of those who were unjustly convicted and left to languish on death row, Legal Lynching is a moving, human book by America's leading death penalty abolitionists. It includes a fascinating history of capital punishment, stretching back to ancient Greece, as well as an inspiring account of the rise of the modern movement against state execution. This new, completely revised edition of Legal Lynching also incorporates the most up-to-date, comprehensive research on the death penalty, such as the recently released Columbia Law School analysis that, after examining every capital conviction and appeal between 1973 and 1995, found "serious, reversible legal error in nearly 7 of every 10 capital sentences."
Originally published in 1995 and out of print for several years, Legal Lynching was the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.'s first book. It has been completely revised and updated for this edition. 12 black-and-white photographs.
Legal Lynching: Racism, Injustice and the Death Penalty
by Jesse Jackson
from Marlowe&Co
Few leaders in American public life can speak with the moral authority of Jesse Jackson. Regardless of what you think of his politics or rhetorical style, Jackson can take debate to places where most public leaders dare not tread. In Legal Lynching, Jackson bravely takes aim at capital punishment. The argument he makes is not all bluster and bravado or simple preaching to the choir. Jackson recites the specifics of cases in which innocent men were sentenced to death--and even executed. He does not deny the popularity of the punishment, rather the purpose of his argument is to make it less popular. The racial injustice of sentencing and the application of capital punishment come in for particular attention, as Jackson sketches the moral case for reforming the American criminal justice system to conform with what he sees as morally sound notions of justice and human rights.
An impassioned rejection of Americans' knee-jerk reaction to the rise of violent crime, this book shows how executions fail to defer crime and reveals shocking statistics about injustices perpetrated in the administrations of the death penalty in America .
Black Misery (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature)
Black Misery was first published in 1969, but the gentle, funny, and sometimes melancholy words of Langston Hughes still cause a blink of recognition. After 25 years, it remains relevant in our own time. As you turn the pages you may say, "I remember feeling like that!" You may say, "I feel like that now."
As you look at Arouni's black and white illustrations and read the short but powerful one sentence captions, you feel the predicament of a black child adjusting to the new world of integration of the 1960s. You feel the mix of hope and dismay that characterized the decade.
Langston Hughes was a writer who often made his readers ask hard questions about life. In Black Misery he wrote about prejudice and indifference, but he wrote with humor and compassion. Today--just as we did 25 years ago-we smile and even laugh, and we also understand that some things are more than hard, are more than sad. They are pure misery.
Black Misery was the last book that Langston Hughes wrote. He died in May 1967, while working on the manuscript.
Negotiating Outside the Law: Why Camp David Failed
by Raymond G. Helmick
from Pluto Press
A startling account of the arguments, the relationships and the strategies that played out over the summer of 2000. Based upon personal correspondence and position papers with all three leaders, this book offers a unique account of the real reasons behind the failure of Camp David.
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