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Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Newtown school shooting. Aurora theater shooting. Tucson supermarket shooting. Are visceral reactions to tragedies trumping the words of our forefathers? Should we allow fear and the growing concern over public safety to limit our civil liberties? Dead Patriot Films presents Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire, a documentary that brings audiences to the center of the controversy over the issue that is dividing our nation - gun control. Narrated by...
3) Civil rights
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Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Throughout U.S. history, many groups of people have had to fight for their civil rights-and many are still fighting today. Black Lives Matter protesters work to stop police violence. Water protectors defend Native American lands. Explore how these groups and others have fought and are still fighting for civil rights. It's key current events topics made approachable for all!"--
Author
Publisher
BrightPoint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the United States, all citizens have certain rights and freedoms. The government cannot limit or take these freedoms away. But not everyone has always had these freedoms. Throughout history, many groups had to fight for equal rights. And as the country has changed, efforts to protect people's rights have also changed. Individual Rights and Liberties explores these freedoms, looking at how people interpret and understand them"--
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For a century, the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to keep Americans in touch with the founding values of the Constitution. As its centennial approached, the organization invited Ellis Cose to become its first ever writer-in-residence, serving as an "embedded journalist" with complete editorial independence. The result is Cose's groundbreaking Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU's 100-Year Fight for Rights in America, the most authoritative...
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century...
8) Big head
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Big Head revisits the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II and considers current-day treatment of those perceived as “the enemy now”, including Muslim Americans, Arab Americans, and South Asian Americans. A work that has been in the making since early 2001, this poetic, interdisciplinary performance offers up letters from Rohwer Internment Camp in Arkansas, responds to recent hate crimes and imprisionments, and considers the coalition-building...
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Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Despite a sea of change in attitudes in recent years, the LGBTQ+ community still faces much discrimination. This affirming book empowers readers to confront discrimination and offers practical guidance on navigating a sometimes hostile world where not everyone believes that LGBTQ+ people should have the same rights as everyone else. Readers who define as LGBTQ+ will find themselves encouraged, and those who do not will learn how to be supportive allies...
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Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The U.S. government is commonly characterized as being comprised of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. These two parties have differing views of how the government should be run, therefore creating a divide in legislative processes. Majority rule refers to a democracy being governed by decisions upon which a greater portion of people has agreed. However, U.S. citizens have basic and inalienable rights that can't be violated by the government....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On Christmas night 1951, Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette retired to bed in their white frame house tucked inside a small orange grove in Mims, Florida. Ten minutes later, a bomb shattered their house, their lives, and any notions that the South’s post-war transition to racial equality would be a smooth one. Harry Moore died that night, his wife nine days later. Harry T. Moore paved the way for the ‘60s civil rights movement by championing...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe, filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, William Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed "Chicago 8" activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
From a Pulitzer Prize winner and the bestselling author of "The Working Poor" comes an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade--and their direct impact on our lives.
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Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2024 high-definition program, learn all about the first amendment of the Bill of Rights and the history of freedom of speech. What does freedom of speech protect? Does it mean we can say whatever we want and not get in trouble? Can private institutions and private companies censor and fire people within their employ that express opinions that conflict with company policy or image? Is hate speech protected under the first amendment?...
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Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Presents issues at stake in the contemporary American debate over civil liberties versus the prevention of terrorism, discussing the PATRIOT Act, conducting daily business, the Guantánamo Bay detainees, secret courts, and safety.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching," writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation...
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