| 单词 | civil |
| 例句 | Of course, she was talking about civil rights or protesting a war or something. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z McKissick told reporters that the sit-in was actually sponsored by several national and local civil rights and religious organizations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He characteristically decided to stand on principle in a major civil rights case. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The federal government no longer made any effort to enforce federal civil rights legislation, and funding for the Freedmen’s Bureau was slashed to such a degree that the agency became virtually defunct. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When we landed on the topic of Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement, I wound up telling her about this Be Like Martin experiment. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The tribe migrated for several reasons, including civil war and discrimination at home, as well as the fact that the mountains held an abundance of grasslands—a paradise for grazing cows. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Throughout the 1970s, conservatives generally gave lip service to the goal of racial equality but actively resisted desegregation, busing, and civil rights enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Principalities of this type are usually endangered when they are about to change from a civil government into an absolute form of government. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The social and organizational changes occurring at Langley were buoyed by the civil rights forces gathering momentum in the country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A civil war had to be waged to end slavery; a mass movement was necessary to bring a formal end to Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He had only referred to his race in two ways—as African American and black—terms that had become popular after the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It pleased him to see America’s civil engineers at last expressing passion for the fair, although in fact the directors had promised nothing to Eiffel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Within five years, the effects of the civil rights revolution were undeniable. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The situation was dangerous, not only because of the virus but because a civil war was going on in Sudan—the area where Ebola raged also happened to be a war zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My father liked to think I was a civil servant. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Christine dutifully submitted to civil defense drills at school, ducking and covering under her desk, practicing the maneuver that adults said would protect her and her classmates from that telltale flash “brighter than the sun.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The men knew that we were accusing them of misconduct, but for the most part they remained civil. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z African American abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass had heard enough. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The abuse of civil liberties brought about by the Palmer Raids ultimately shocked fair-minded citizens. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Board of Education has created a widespread perception that civil rights lawyers are the most important players in racial justice advocacy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After 1919, the next large-scale unrest exploded nearly a half century later, when blacks took to the streets in cities across the country during the civil rights movement. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was very religious and a good student, and he had the kind of reputation that allowed the family to persuade civil rights leaders to push for an investigation into his death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Mother and the cook talked in a civil way, even joked. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The undertone of fear that San Francisco would be bombed which was abetted by weekly air raid warnings, and civil defense drills in school, heightened my sense of belonging. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He told me that Cambodia is fighting a civil war, and that most Cambodians do not live in cities but in rural villages, farming their small plot of land. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And longtime congressman John Lewis, a veteran civil rights activist and moving spirit of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, denounced the ruling as a major blow to minorities in the United States. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It concluded that Title VI does not provide a “private right of action” to ordinary citizens and civil rights groups; meaning that victims of discrimination can no longer sue under the law. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But the riots have a common cause, as named by the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “A riot is the language of the unheard.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As a large contingent of whites headed toward Hayti, they came face to face with another group of blacks not traditionally aligned with the civil rights movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The new racial caste system operates unimpeded by the Fourteenth Amendment and federal civil rights legislation—laws designed to topple earlier systems of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The classes were the same: language and communications; commerce and industry; science and technology; civil procedures and government. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Maddie flew the practical test for her “A” license, the basic pilot’s license, six months before all civil aircraft were grounded in August. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Being everyone’s mother again. D’you know, there are girls getting all sorts of jobs now. Even taking the civil service exams. That would please the Old Man.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The Freedom Riders, Mr. Belafonte explained, risked their lives to benefit the civil rights of human kind. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Board of Education, civil rights activists used direct-action tactics in an effort to force reluctant Southern states to desegregate public facilities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Leading the procession along with Dr. King and other civil rights leaders were an Episcopal bishop, a Jewish rabbi, a United Nations diplomat, and four Catholic nuns wearing long black habits. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The civil rights assault had failed because of defections in the ranks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To the civil enquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley’s, she could not make a very favourable answer. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Her primary school had been different, full of children like her, whose parents were teachers and civil servants, who took the bus and did not have drivers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Her case attracted national attention, but civil rights advocates declined to use her as a plaintiff because she got pregnant by an older man shortly after her arrest. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The civil rights movement cleared the way legally so we could progress. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z In 1939, when Grotjan got a high score on a civil service exam, he offered her a place in his unit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They had not long separated, when Miss Bingley came towards her, and with an expression of civil disdain accosted her: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z They regarded civil disobedience not as a form of protest but as a crime, and were perturbed by the growing partnership between Africans and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The case was closely watched by criminal lawyers and civil rights lawyers nationwide. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He won over all their followers who were noblemen, making them his own noblemen and giving them huge subsidies; and he honoured them, according to their rank, with military commands and civil appointments. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Given the magnitude—the sheer scale—of the New Jim Crow, one would expect that the War on Drugs would be the top priority of every civil rights organization in the country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was in the context of this spirit of activism by Indians, Coloureds, and Africans that Walter Sisulu first broached the idea to a small group of us of a national civil disobedience campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Black Americans sent up a cheer of jubilation, and the ruling provided momentum and hope to grassroots civil resistance and social movements throughout the land. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And Lena, though unforgiving as ever, was civil to him, since Corinthians had moved to a small house in Southside, which she shared with Porter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Attorney General Tom C. Clark developed a list of these organizations, which included everything from African American civil rights groups to labor unions and virtually anyone associated with communism or the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Hoover incorrectly believed both the peace movement and the civil rights movement were Communist attempts to take over the entire United States. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The civil war had gone on for ten years, with many deaths on both sides. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Ethiopia was in the middle of its own civil war. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I thank the civil population for their steadfastness and courage in the face of overwhelming odds and starvation. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There is no question that the historic civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s owed its existence to the summer of 1919, when organized black resistance to white abuse first became a reality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In the United States, the only way to enforce research ethics was in the civil courts. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Conservative politicians who embraced this rhetoric purposefully failed to distinguish between the direct action tactics of civil rights activists, violent rebellions in inner cities, and traditional crimes of an economic or violent nature. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There also remains a persistent tendency in the civil rights community to treat the criminal justice system as just another institution infected with lingering racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Over the years, civil rights lawyers have made heroic efforts to save the lives of condemned people on death row. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He had pledged to end civil strife forever, and he did not want to go back on his word. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z An elderly and civil woman waited on me while another woman talked to him some distance away. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t turn around without hearing about some ‘civil rights advance’! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This was one of the consequences of the civil war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z On June 12, 1963, President Kennedy announced that he would deliver to Congress a strong civil rights bill, a declaration that transformed him into a widely recognized ally of the Civil Rights Movement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Young militant leaders were emerging in the civil rights struggle, making Johnson nervous. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Speaking from the steps of the capitol, prominent civil rights leaders and ordinary citizens recalled the turbulent events at Selma that had turned the voting rights campaign into a mass protest against racial injustice. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The immunity from civil liability given to prosecutors and judges is even greater than the protections provided to law enforcement officers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One day, civil rights organizations may be embarrassed by how long it took them to move out of denial and do the hard work necessary to end mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Conspicuously absent from this list was the NAACP, the country’s dominant civil rights organization since 1909, but still dedicated to the slower tactic of filing legal challenges to segregation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In 2000, Congress passed the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act, which was meant to address many of the egregious examples of abuse of civil forfeiture. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The altercation threatened to descend into an acrimonious civil war, and I did my best to prevent a rupture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His conclusion was that life on Mars—by this he meant civil engineers with an interest in hydraulics—was impossible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, as civil rights advocates converted a grassroots movement into a legal campaign, and as civil rights leaders became political insiders, many civil rights organizations became top-heavy with lawyers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It’s not safe, Richard. I’m not staying here longer than another week. These people never fight civilized wars, do they? So much for calling it a civil war.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was no inquiry or investigation; that was reserved for white civil servants. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was imagining the civil liability, for Reggie, and his folks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In a victory for the civil rights movement, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that states cannot use trespass laws against individuals protesting state-mandated segregation policies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The same civil and religious institutions that kept Egypt stable could serve to focus domestic resentment over foreign domination. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The controversy surrounding military tribunals and civil rights continues. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z One would have thought a full-scale civil war was under way from the precautions the state was taking with us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Because I had never said a civil word to Capricorn Anderson. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z In the procession were all the dignitaries, civil and religious. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z This was my state of mind when Dr. Kimball began to lecture on something called the civil rights movement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Coups begat coups, he said, telling us about the bloody coups of the sixties, which ended up in civil war just after he left Nigeria to study in England. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z All this spoken extremely fast obliged Miss Bates to stop for breath; and Emma said something very civil about the excellence of Miss Fairfax’s handwriting. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z It may not be easy for the civil rights community to have a candid conversation about any of this. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That year Pakistan was engaged in civil war. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Remember the bomb blast at the airport when a civil rights lawyer was traveling. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Again, it’s not that civil rights advocates don’t care; we do. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He found pleasure in how quickly the civil defenders’ suspicious glances at his special duties pass changed to wide grins when he greeted them in Igbo, in how willing people were to answer his questions. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Figuring out Alabama civil and criminal law while managing death penalty cases in several other states kept me very busy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Mother shut the door, revealing a poster of Martin Luther King Jr. that I’d put up four years before, when I’d learned of the civil rights movement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In terms of civil service, you were only on probation for a year. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just as in so many civil rights organizations, he mused: the flamboyant male leaders make the speeches while the workaday women, most of them as plain as bread, make it happen. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It puts him in a civil humor when people are formal and polite. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Hundreds of black clergymen, journalists, civil rights activists, teachers, lawyers, students and anyone suspected of subversive acts had been detained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1917 the Russian Revolution had put an end to an empire that was centuries old and, after years of civil war, replaced it with a new system of government called communism. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z "He may as well begin here," Mr. Armin said, in a perfectly civil tone. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, at the same time that civil rights were being identified as a threat to law and order, the FBI was reporting fairly dramatic increases in the national crime rate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z State Department decided to allow certain refugees from the Sudanese civil war into the United States. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “David’s not an internee. He has civil rights. The rule of law exists.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z One of the more powerful civil rights organizations will no doubt cover me with laurels. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And we have never talked about finding out that Papa had anonymously donated to the children’s hospitals and motherless babies’ homes and disabled veterans from the civil war. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It had probably been designed by a self-taught civil engineer, which may have accounted for the absence of all those expected molecules of water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z King himself would recognize and decry this fundamental flaw in the early civil rights movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We know they’re the ones who will get jobs in the civil service and help the people who run the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “You can at least give him a civil answer. ” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Whitney Young was named for a civil rights activist and had been opened in 1975 as a positive-minded alternative to busing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Particularly since the civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s, the telltale signs of societal progress had finally taken root among black Americans. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And he knew that Judge Johnson was sympathetic to the civil rights movement. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The two sides fought a civil war and tough stains from that war remain. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Largely because of that, he and Joe had hardly ever exchanged two words, at least not civil words. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was no consensus on his civil status, his age, his family, or the region of France he came from. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The defection rate shot up to 34 percent among those Democrats who believed civil rights leaders were pushing “too fast.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I certainly supported the racial civil rights movement; supported the goal of broadening access to higher education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, how could civil rights organizations, some of which are larger and better funded than at any point in American history, have allowed this human rights nightmare to occur on their watch? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa and his army came to be at Cajamarca because they had just won decisive battles in a civil war that left the Incas divided and vulnerable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit claiming the study violated the boys’ civil rights and breached confidentiality of doctor-patient relationships by releasing results to state and juvenile courts. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Taking our cue from the courageous civil rights advocates who brazenly refused to defend themselves, marching unarmed past white mobs that threatened to kill them, we, too, must be the change we hope to create. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The introduction explained that “despite the civil rights victories of our past, racial prejudice still pervades the criminal justice system.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I'm surprised at how civil I sound, as if I'm asking her about a book she's read but that I have yet to finish. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Law enforcement officers generally have no personal resources to pay damages to victims of misconduct, so the city, county, or agency that employs them is typically the target of any civil action that seeks compensation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “You had your chance to be civil and respectful, Mr. Jeffries. Don’t cry to me when this gets out of control.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Those of us in the civil rights community are not immune to the racial stereotypes that pervade media imagery and political rhetoric; nor do we operate outside of the political context. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As public attention shifted from the streets to the courtroom, the extraordinary grassroots movement that made civil rights legislation possible faded from public view. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The lead established, other civil rights groups followed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The country’s legal system would guarantee equality before the law, and a bill of rights would be drawn up to protect civil liberties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Civil rights was “a moral issue,” Johnson was declaring to everybody—while his best friend was the Southern racist who led the civil rights opposition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1961, meanwhile, students meeting at a conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, agreed to form a new civil rights group. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did we not put that old book he used to read for the civil service exam inside?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z All people ever talked about after church were the Negroes and whether they’d get their civil rights. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes not. Some people are always like that and just pretend to be civil.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In recent years, civil rights advocates have launched important reform efforts, most notably the campaigns challenging felon disenfranchisement laws, crack-sentencing policies, and racial profiling by law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His strong hand ended the furious civil wars and brought about the Pax Augusta, which lasted for nearly half a century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was President Johnson, who’d worked so steadily with King on civil rights. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Chestnut was fiery and had done a lot of work in the black community to enforce civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Her role in Rome’s recent civil strife remained unclear. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For democracy to work, Eisenhower realized that one of the most important civil liberties was the freedom of speech. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At the time the new rules were adopted, the law governing civil forfeiture was so heavily weighted in favor of the government that fully 80 percent of forfeitures went uncontested. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Program of Action approved at the annual conference called for the pursuit of political rights through the use of boycotts, strikes, civil disobedience, and noncooperation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He understood that in spite of his present title of civil and military leader of the town, Don Apolinar Moscote was once more a figurehead. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I don’t want you to do anything but be civil to him and help to the pudding. You’ll give me your advice if I get in a muddle, won’t you?” asked Jo, rather hurt. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The young lawyer was on civil, if not close, terms with Durham’s older black leaders, but he labored under no illusions about their willingness to take bold action. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “And for your information, the Human Rights Club is studying civil disobedience. Like Rosa Parks. The wrappers are just a side project.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z They sent students to the Deep South for civil rights projects and to the inner city for fieldwork. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Segregationist Jimmy George Robinson attacks Martin Luther King as the civil rights leader tries to register at Selma's Hotel Albert, January 18, 1965. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack and I both knew what this day represented to many Americans, especially those who’d been a part of the civil rights movement. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z That same night, while the sound of the firing squad could be heard, Arcadio was named civil and military leader of the town. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Yet these civil penalties, although not considered punishment by our courts, often make it virtually impossible for people who have been convicted of crimes to integrate into the mainstream society and economy upon release. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Half of your donation goes to civil rights for colored people in the South. So they can get their rights. They're going to be really happy with your contribution.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z No lying or stealing, and no insubordination to civil authority, except on the grounds of religious obligation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And, like the Jews in Germany, Japanese American citizens—men, women, and children—were rounded up and forced to live in internment camps with no regard for their civil rights. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The southern movement gave impetus initially to the civil rights drives of nonwhite Americans in the North. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember well, for instance, the blind animal terror which ensued when some townie set off the civil defense sirens as a joke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The project took about fifteen years to complete, a testament to the civil engineering of the day and an indication of the extraordinary practical capability of the Ionians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now they had gone back to being civil, Mama often came over to see Baby, through the wooden gate in the mud wall that separated her home from Odenigbo’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z No matter how much that had hurt Hanako, in Tule Lake she had become incredibly proud of her father for standing his ground and asking for their civil rights back before he would serve. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Rosa Parks opened the door for one of the most famous boycotts of our time and introduced the struggle for civil rights. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Jackson also heard trumpets blowing, though for him they were “trumpets of civil war.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “But this is not, I suppose, a matter for the police. A civil, not a legal, matter,” she clarifies. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Our civil suit ran up against laws that give police, prosecutors, and judges special immunity from civil liability in criminal justice matters. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In 1964 near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, three young civil rights workers—two white, one black—were killed by a mob of Klansmen for helping local blacks register as voters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the first major civil rights victory won through widespread public protests. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6 in the ornate President’s Room of the Capitol as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and other civil rights leaders looked on. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1906, the year Anthony died, women in England were using civil disobedience in the battle for their voting rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Would an all-out rupture between the two of them cause the whole civil rights movement to lose ground? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “First off, they agreed to be civil about arranging these weddings—no more fighting,” I tell them. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Of course he’d follow a civil rights case, especially when it was in Mississippi, and he probably couldn’t wait to get my eyewitness account of the whole trial. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z They were going to have a civil ceremony and then they would take some pictures in the wedding grove at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He is threatening to sue the school district and Mr. Neck for everything from incompetence to civil rights violations. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s an aeronautical flare. I thought it looked familiar. I was reading a book on the civil air patrol just a month or so ago.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z News of the DAR’s ban had caused an angry controversy and set the stage for a historic event in the struggle for civil rights. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Many leaders in the civil rights struggle were afraid to speak out against the war, fearing they would be branded as unpatriotic, and the civil rights movement would be damaged. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z As president he envisioned what he called his Great Society—an ambitious set of programs including civil rights legislation and expanded access to quality education and health care. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In 1967, their campaign against southern segregation laws successful at last, black civil rights leaders were turning their attention to the North, a North they no longer saw in contrast to the South. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A giant black-complected man walked up to Bloom and in perfect House of Lords English said, “I suggest you be more civil. Otherwise I may lose my temper and throw you into the water.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The clerks in New York City’s civil court recently reported that name changes are at an all-time high. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Cooperation and communication broke down, and civil unrest caused fragile peacekeeping to crumble. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “Evacuations like this cause panic in the civil population.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Jimmy, the boy asked you a civil question,” Moms said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z But near Enugu, the civil defenders had blocked the road with tree trunks and old rusty drums. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I said that to me, one proof that all the civil rights posturing of so many Jews wasn’t sincere was that so often in the North the quickest segregationists were Jews themselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This can be called a civil principality, the acquisition of which neither depends completely upon virtue nor upon Fortune, but instead upon a fortunate astuteness. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He looked straight into the camera and declared: “I sunk the Coral Queen as an act of civil disobedience.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z An ANC government would still require much of the present civil service to run the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Saying that colorblindness is the problem may alarm some in the civil rights community, especially the pollsters and political consultants who have become increasingly influential in civil rights advocacy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was deeply ingrained in the culture, and it seemed that everyone—man, woman, and child; farmer, civil servant, or doctor—played chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The success of the Montgomery bus boycott encouraged growing numbers of civil rights activists, black and white, to challenge laws that enforced segregation. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is a daunting task; the Washington Post has called voter suppression “the civil rights issue of this era.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Domestic workers, laborers, small- business owners, and many of the doctor-lawyer-preacher-teacher class moved in alongside the drillers, riggers, and civil servants. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z These goof sessions, which almost always ended as earnest talks on civil rights, often went on until Mommy got home from work. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In her dissenting opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg drew sharply different lessons from the history of the civil rights movement. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a fundamental disconnect today between the world of civil rights advocacy and the reality facing those trapped in the new racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Prison jobs became civil service jobs; prisons within the states became more standardized and centrally controlled; and unions in a few states, particularly New York and California, became important players. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine if civil rights organizations and African American leaders in the 1940s had not placed Jim Crow segregation at the forefront of their racial justice agenda. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Now, at that time—April, i960—there were in United States prisons one hundred and ninety persons awaiting civil execution; five, the Clutter killers included, were among the lodgers at Lansing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Some aspects of Islamic law are observed in Iran's legal system, but today the country mostly operates under civil law, ratified by the parliament. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Among Leonardo’s many interests and accomplishments—in painting, sculpture, anatomy, geology, natural history, military and civil engineering—he had a great passion: to devise and fabricate a machine that could fly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With criminal records, the majority of young black men in urban areas are not seen as attractive plaintiffs for civil rights litigation or good “poster boys” for media advocacy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In a subsequent press poll, not one Congressman or Senator with a previous record of opposition to civil rights said he had changed his views. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A civil war had started in my country in 1991, and by the time I was three years old, it had been going on for seven years. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Lately, the meetings is more about civil rights than keeping the streets clean and who gone work at the clothing exchange. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The saboteurs' lawyer knew their best defense was to have the case transferred to a civil court. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “I know,” April said suddenly, “Marshall can be the young pharaoh, heir to the throne of Egypt. Only there’s a civil war going on, and the other side is trying to kill him.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “People who never saw a horse race in their lives are taking sides. If the issue were deferred another week, there would be a civil war between the War Admiral Americans and the Seabiscuit Americans.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It may be that traditional civil rights organizations simply cannot, or will not, change. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My parents sheltered me from many of the civil war images that surfaced on TV. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He returned to logging work while we made plans to file a civil lawsuit against everyone involved in his wrongful prosecution and conviction. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A civil war had to be won first, hundreds of thousands of lives lost, and then—only then—were slaves across the South set free. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We of Umkhonto have always sought — as the liberation movement has sought — to achieve liberation without bloodshed and civil clash. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Because civil penalties and sanctions imposed on people with criminal records applied only to a few, they never operated as a comprehensive system of control over any racially or ethnically defined population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By holding off combat until the five-year agreement ran out, Octavian avoided the stigma of starting a civil war. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Outraged by the lack of local law enforcement interest in the case, the black community and civil rights activists persuaded the United States Department of Justice to get involved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z An official order was made for women pilots from civil aviation and Osoaviakhim to report to an assembly point in Moscow, where Marina would take charge of them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The glamor of the underground struggle and the civil war still faintly clung to them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Animosity between Afrikaner and Englishman was still sharp fifty years after the Anglo-Boer War; what would race relations be like between white and black if we provoked a civil war? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I arst you civil enough, didn’t I?” said the old man, straightening his shoulders pugnaciously. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z After Parker finished his military service, he used the GI Bill to earn a degree in civil engineering from the Colorado School of Mines—as far from the South as he could get. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The numbers were double that of Angola, then at the end of a long civil war, and the North Korean government became furious when they were released to the public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Since the Battle of Fort Sumter took place in South Carolina in April 1861, the United States has been a “house divided,” locked in a civil war between the free North and the slaveholding South. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He asked the Reichstag members to suspend civil rights, and they did. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Now there was always some do-gooder civilian banging on about civil rights. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z With extraordinary bravery, civil rights leaders, activists, and progressive clergy launched boycotts, marches, and sit-ins protesting the Jim Crow system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Lincoln Memorial concert made both musical and civil rights history. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z He filed a civil suit, and a New Orleans jury awarded Thompson $14 million. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z After smallpox wiped out much of the political elite, each panaqa tried to move into the vacuum, stoking the passions of the civil war. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Support of civil rights legislation was derided by Southern conservatives as merely “rewarding lawbreakers.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Bagwell's public complaints made it hard for courts to appoint other civil lawyers for last-stage appeals in a death penalty case, not that they were particularly inclined to do so. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The city was trying to attract businesses to its new Research Triangle Park and the civil rights pioneers figured that local stores, wanting to avoid any bad publicity, would be “pushovers.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In a civil and humane society, each man is able to fulfill those obligations according to his own inclinations and abilities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hope, for her sake, you’ll keep this a civil affair.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The attention of civil rights advocates has been largely devoted to other issues, such as affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Change in civil rights organizations, like change in society as a whole, will not come easy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was nothing like my friends’ parents, who were younger, drove new cars, followed the Mets, talked about civil rights, and foot-raced with us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After it sponsored a membership drive for the foundering local branch of the NAACP, the civil rights organization grew from 11 to nearly 2,000 members, making it the largest affiliate in the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The NAACP, the civil rights organization most closely identified with the concert, reaped substantial rewards. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z When King’s staff learned that state troopers would almost certainly block the march, they advised the civil rights leader to remain in Atlanta. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Judging from Dr. Bright's accounts, the men of London dressed in splendid clothing, all ornamented and embroidered, and spoke in a civil and cultured manner. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The answer is not that civil rights advocates are indifferent to racial bias in the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But Allen wasn’t a foot soldier in the civil rights struggle anymore. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Civil war would mean the destruction of what the ANC stood for; with civil war racial peace would be more difficult than ever to achieve. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Love is love, after all, whether you’re Greek or Roman. This civil war won’t affect me as much as it will the others.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What makes the black man think of himself as only an internal United States issue is just a catch-phrase, two words, “civil rights.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It may have once been a storeroom, but its roof and doors had been blown off during the civil war years ago, and it had remained that way. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Liberals, by contrast, insisted that social reforms such as the War on Poverty and civil rights legislation would get at the “root causes” of criminal behavior and stressed the social conditions that predictably generate crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To do so, he reinstated the civil liberties that Hitler had taken away. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Why the outpouring of support and the promises of a “new civil rights movement” on behalf of the Jena youth but not their children? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The civil suit failed to slow down the State of Alabama, which moved ahead aggressively with more execution dates. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They feared that their church, like many others active in the civil rights movement, would be bombed. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Some folks in the office said I should explain in my complaint that I was a civil rights attorney working on police misconduct cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He contended that if the leaders of the established civil rights organizations persisted, the social struggle would end in bloodshed because he was certain the white man would never concede full integration. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z With all deliberate speed, civil rights organizations became “professionalized” and increasingly disconnected from the communities they claimed to represent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Days later a third bomb was sent to a civil rights office in Florida and a fourth to a courthouse in Atlanta. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Well... they develop it. They plan communities with nice houses, and schools, and industrial parks. They create jobs— construction jobs, teaching jobs, civil engineering jobs—like your father’s.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It helped create the format of the modern civil rights demonstration, and it established the Lincoln Memorial as moral high ground for generations of protesters. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I hate when a teacher assumes that just because I’m Black, I’ll know all about slavery and civil rights and stuff like that. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “Good. Then get going. Before this civil rights thing blows over.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Condemning “welfare queens” and criminal “predators,” he rode into office with the strong support of disaffected whites—poor and working-class whites who felt betrayed by the Democratic Party’s embrace of the civil rights agenda. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Let some civil rights “leader” make some statement, displeasing to the white public power structure, and the reporters, in an effort to whip him back into line, would try to use me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only after a decade of national wars, civil wars, revolutions and counterrevolutions in all parts of the world that Ingsoc and its rivals emerged as fully worked-out political theories. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Virtually all constitutionally protected civil liberties have been undermined by the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Although thus incapable of mounting a civil war, they are nevertheless increasingly asserting their rights. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The new caste system labels black and brown men as criminals early, often in their teens, making them “damaged goods” from the perspective of traditional civil rights advocates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It’s not like we have civil liberties in here—or lawyers.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was nothing like my friends’ parents, who were younger, drove new cars, followed the Mets, talked about civil rights, and foot-raced with us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you ever noticed I have never once approached you and have been exhaustively civil every time we’ve spoken? Yet here you are, seeking me out again.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Over the decades, the Banyamulenge got caught up in various conflicts and civil wars, but no matter what, they were always seen as outsiders, not truly Congolese. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The Chinese ambassador to the United States attended, along with prominent government officials and civil rights leaders. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z So that single answer, where he mentioned their civil rights, was why he was brought in for questioning and eventually branded “disloyal” and the family was sent from Jerome to Tule Lake. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Even after all they'd done, their focus was always on what they still planned to do for civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Then, feeling her answer was too civil under the circumstances, she added, “Mercurochrome’s no good at all for that.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He had to admit, it was probably the most civil robbery he’d ever been through. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Rob McDuff, an old friend of mine from Jackson, Mississippi, agreed to join our team for the civil litigation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She wanted to hire women, but by law she had to choose from lists of people who had taken civil service exams in math or science. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z So to be left really alone is like a gift of civil rights. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Sedition Act was a serious threat to civil liberties, Jefferson’s response was an equally serious threat to the sovereignty of the national government and the survival of the union. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Most recently, when the Somali civil war began in 1991, the warring factions forced the Somali Bantu off their land in the fertile Juba River valley. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Political and economic stagnation undermined many black Americans’ confidence in the old tactics of the civil rights movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The once-sleepy city of Selma was now the storm center of the civil rights movement, and tensions were rising. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “I get it. Our civil liberties have been shredded.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But today, civil rights is a dominating issue in every state, crowding the pages of the press and the daily conversation of white Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It marked the end of the power struggles that caused so much civil unrest. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The term informed consent first appeared in court documents in 1957, in a civil court ruling on the case of a patient named Martin Salgo. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The falcons and owls and eagles have no civil rights because you discriminate against them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We were married in a civil ceremony requiring only signatures and a witness at the Native Commissioner’s Court in Johannesburg, for we could not afford a traditional wedding or feast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What would happen if all the Negroes in the South were suddenly given full civil rights? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z While dramatic progress was apparent in the political and social realms, civil rights activists became increasingly concerned that, without major economic reforms, the vast majority of blacks would remain locked in poverty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I told him I was a writer, touring the Deep South to study living conditions, civil rights, etc., but I did not tell him I would do this as a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z After he killed all those who might have harmed him because they were unhappy with the situation, he strengthened his power by instituting new civil and military institutions. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Where were the protestors and civil rights leaders when their children were tried as adults and carted off to adult prisons? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z African Americans, largely excluded from this new industry, found themselves confronting new economic challenges even as they won basic civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He argued then that the time had come for racial justice advocates to shift from a civil rights to a human rights paradigm, and that the real work of movement building had only just begun. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z C.J. thought my case might be a good civil rights case. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Challenging mass incarceration requires something civil rights advocates have long been reluctant to do: advocacy on behalf of those labeled criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But outside of the death penalty arena, civil rights advocates have long been reluctant to leap to the defense of those viewed as criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The very facts were shrouded in uncertainty: Was it a civil war? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The civil war in Sudan had touched millions of lives. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The bomber seemed to be attacking legal professionals connected to civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In 1884, two years after his first wife died, abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass married a white woman, Helen Pitts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Ravkan civil war had erupted when she was still a student at the Little Palace, and she and her classmates had been forced to go into hiding. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I want to file a civil rights case. For you, and other students of color who are punished disproportionately.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “MIT has an amazing civil and environmental engineering program. That’s what I want to do, be a civil engineer.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z It appeared to be a civil, solitary form of corruption. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We felt that the country was drifting towards a civil war in which blacks and whites would fight each other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I have never seen a man in civil life as nervous as Robert Cohn—nor as eager. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z During the civil war, Portuguese soldiers came through the village and destroyed all the boats to keep them from being used by Frelimo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t trust the white radicals who dominated the peace movement, and they didn’t want civil rights linked with hippie protestors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Yet it was at that moment of maximum affluence that the Roman political order collapsed into a series of deadly civil wars. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It is important now to remember that the early leaders of the northern civil rights movement were from the South. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d promised to finish a book he was writing and needed to get away from the daily, ongoing demands of leadership in the civil rights movement. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Never a civil word had been spoken by either one of them. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Those who wanted to participate launched mass demonstrations and strikes, which soon spread to the Bophuthatswana civil service. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone who studied the early years of Sudan might have seen civil war in its future. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They traced their philosophy to Thoreau and Gandhi, debating the great works of civil disobedience at Floyd McKissick’s office on Main Street in study and prayer sessions that often lasted all night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But by the way he’s pressing up against me, I know his idea of civil is not the same as mine. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the ensuing civil war, which lasted until 2003, some three hundred thousand died, and countless fled into the mountains or into refugee camps in Tanzania and Mozambique. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The fact that the last question could plausibly be answered yes raises serious questions for the civil rights community. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We now had no alternative but to resort to civil disobedience, and we embarked on preparations for mass action in earnest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The controversy over the bus boycott vaulted the young Dr. King into the national headlines as the leader of the civil rights movement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Resistance killed the Emperor and the most important members of his house, Marcus stepped into his place, and now there will be no civil war, no struggle between Gens Taia and Blackcliff. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It had no particular reason to be friendly, but there was something in Hazel’s look that made a civil answer natural. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite these important efforts, what is most striking about the civil rights community’s response to the mass incarceration of people of color is the relative quiet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Three or four can travel quickly and aren’t conspicuous: and the Chief Rabbit of this warren would be less likely to object to a few strangers coming with a civil request.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “He has a childlike faith in the integrity of civil servants and he seems to think Congress corresponds to their aristocracy. No understanding of American politics a-tall.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Ralph’s second civil request — that the cats be confined to Theresa’s room — was less easily granted. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z How much longer would it take to eradicate the scars of interracial civil war, which could not be fought without a great loss of life on both sides? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It made me queasy, pretending to be civil with a person so beneath human decency that he could crawl under a pregnant ant. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z In early July, Martin Luther King Jr., one of Johnson’s biggest allies in the struggle to end racial discrimination, spoke out against the war while addressing civil rights leaders in Virginia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Abernathy was Martin Luther King Jr.’s closest collaborator and had inherited the mantle of his Poor People’s Campaign, the second phase of the civil rights movement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Until the 1950s, when it became a civil service post, the job was a political appointment, often bestowed on men who knew nothing whatsoever about running a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “No one’s really going to give me work as a landscape gardener. I don’t want to teach, or go in for the civil service. And medicine interests me...” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z You have already agreed that this letter raises questions like the rights of freedom, civil liberties, and so on? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike in classical Athens, however, the power of the city’s civil servants was entirely circumscribed by the king’s, preserving only the outward form, not the substance, of self-government. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z By the time Chacko finished his BA and left for Oxford to do another one, Kerala was on the brink of civil war. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Keep civil, my murdering mannie, or we will stab you at the King’s own feet!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than blaming civil rights groups, however, it is far more productive to understand the reasons why the response to mass incarceration has been so constrained. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She did not understand the state of civil war, nor did she realize that war is the soldiers’ work of art, the culmination of all their training, the gold medal of their profession. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They preferred that the country descend into civil war rather than have majority rule by peaceful means. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As we all know, nonviolence and passive resistance would eventually spread through the world, inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr., in the fight for civil rights in America. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z We did not want civil war, I said, but we needed to be prepared for it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Walter's civil case would also go to the U.S. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z During the past twenty years, virtually every progressive, national civil rights organization in the country has mobilized and rallied in defense of affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Papa said, “This is what we call above-board legal threats against our community that if we proceed to exercise our legal civil rights, they are going to punish us.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was not coincidence that the leadership of the southern civil rights movement was drawn mainly from a well-educated black middle class. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He never heard of civil rights, but we all had our pride. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting legislation was once again extraordinarily punitive, this time extending far beyond traditional criminal punishments and including new “civil penalties” for people convicted of drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Julian told Jus he “calmly explained the meaning of civil disobedience'’ before removing his framed degrees from the wall. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Many of them already knew of Carey from his role as field secretary of the nation’s oldest and preeminent direct-action civil rights group: the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a very overwhelming place in that uneasy peace-time when military and civil pilots took it in turns to use the runway, but Maddie was determined, and followed the signs to the flying club. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Instead of a faceless state or community, crime victims were featured at trial, and criminal cases took on the dynamics of a traditional civil trial, pitting the family of the victim against the offender. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Part of the answer is that civil rights organizations—like all institutions—are comprised of fallible human beings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They began squabbling with each other, and one filed a civil suit against the other about who could claim the money. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One book, The Gay Genius, by Lin Yutang, told the story of Su Tung Po, the Chinese poet, artist, philosopher, and civil servant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The act included a civil forfeiture provision authorizing the government to seize and forfeit drugs, drug manufacturing and storage equipment, and conveyances used to transport drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I feel—so, so terrible, Em. It was supposed to be civil disobedience. Like we talked about in Human Rights Club.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Once in the Oval Office, Bush stayed on message, opposing affirmative action and aggressive civil rights enforcement, and embracing the drug war with great enthusiasm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Gaea brought her back from the dead to throw you Amazons into civil war.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Once again, federal troops were sent to the South to provide protection for blacks attempting to exercise their civil rights, and the violent reaction of white racists was met with horror in the North. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Scores of civil rights leaders were arrested and sent to serve life sentences in the maximum-security penitentiary on Robben Island, in the cold Atlantic Ocean. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Working on the railroad was considered a good job, and A. Philip Randolph, perhaps the most important figure in the civil rights movement, was making it a better job. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z His light- brown eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lindy, let those attorneys who were here this afternoon know about the, uh, civil liberties violations these guys have made because they, I don’t know, abuse their employees by...withholding overtime pay. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The Southern struggle had grown from a modest group of black students demonstrating peacefully at one lunch counter to the largest mass movement for racial reform and civil rights in the twentieth century. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One very vocal opponent of the tide of ethnic imitation was the writer, civil rights activist and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, W. E. B. Du Bois. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I followed the progress of the southern black civil rights movement, which was gaining prominent notice in Sacramento’s afternoon newspaper. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the first definitive film stock collection of the life of Malcolm X and it traveled extensively throughout the nation’s university circuit as well as to civil rights and Afro-American nationalist events. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They were heading to the local jail to protest the arrest earlier that day of a civil rights worker. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The Second Army had been nearly obliterated in Ravka’s civil war. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Two of the most potent social campaigns of the past half-century were the civil rights movement and the feminist movement, which demonized discrimination against blacks and women, respectively. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Some 4,000 defiant protesters clustered on the lawn and in the parking lot that afternoon in the largest demonstration of the civil rights era in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Moderate black leaders quickly distanced themselves from him, saying it was crucial the focus remain solely on civil rights. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She thought about how in school she had learned that there had once been a civil war in the United States. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Ma, too, had a special dress: a pink lace, ankle-sweeping evening gown that she was going to wear at high noon to a civil ceremony. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z More words were exchanged, hot words and dark, and the whole thing ended with the arraignment of the three black men, and an appointment to appear in civil court Thursday next. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z At that time, a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African, the highest that a black man could aspire to. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “So people’s civil liberties can go to hell so long as we’re safe, yeah?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The legal question was whether condemned prisoners could file civil rights actions to challenge arguably unconstitutional methods of execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There were so many soldiers that the people on that street told Papa it reminded them of pictures from the front during the civil war. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The most ardent opponents of civil rights legislation and desegregation were the most active on the emerging crime issue. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Nonreligious white liberals have typically downplayed the role of religion in the civil rights movement, but historian Aldon Morris is correct in asserting that the lunch-counter protests were not primarily a college phenomenon. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She viewed the civil rights achievements of black Americans with pride, as if they were her own. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early 1980s, however, when the national government, dominated by northern Arabs, tried to impose Islamic laws on the entire nation, civil war broke out. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of these artists had been encouraged to leave the South by pioneer civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, who was also the editor of The Crisis magazine, the journal of the NAACP. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Even the civil police interfered with them very little. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They were drinking beer and talking about the indigenization decree, the civil servants being jobless. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We had, for instance, some civil servants, some nurses, clerical workers, salesmen from the department stores. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, now you cannot see? But you could see enough to write propaganda for Ojukwu? Is that not what all of you civil servants did?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Recognizing the public's disdain for the spoils system, he called for a law regulating civil service jobs within the government. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Peru was in the midst of a civil war between the government and theShining Path guerilla movement, and on midnight one New Year’s Eve, while Father Jack was saying Mass, the pharmacy was blown up. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The summons announced that the civil and military leader of the province would arrive on the following Friday ready to intercede in the conflict. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights activism and new federal laws inspired the same resistance to racial progress and once again led to a spike in the use of Confederate imagery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I am his junior in life, was his junior in Congress, his junior in the diplomatic line, his junior lately in our civil government.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry “Native passes” issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He promptly left Congo—which has recently descended once again into civil war—and hopes to reunite with his family, either in the United States or in Europe. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z So Professor Hunk was talking about civil rights and Jewish guy says, “The blacks have not suffered like the Jews.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z For decades, civil rights leaders have been saying things like “we all want a colorblind society, we just disagree how to get there” in defense of race-conscious programs like affirmative action or racial data collection. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He had made national news in the 1960s as a fierce opponent of civil rights and racial integration. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Such was the case of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I think people in the canyon pretty much gave up on the idea of civil engineering. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z His manner was unexpectedly civil from all accounts, absent his standard sardonic remarks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Probably a thousand goblins, courtiers and diplomats and civil servants, were spread out around the courtyard, and all of them were dancing in strict rhythm in a great spiral. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z In fact, twenty years after the civil rights revolution, the jury remained an institution largely unchanged by the legal requirements of racial integration and diversity. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Later they began to focus their efforts on what they regarded as the most crucial civil rights issue—securing the right of black citizens to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the huge nation, members of the Osoaviakhim and civil air clubs had received the same order, and were sending their women aviators to Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “You began the evening well, Charlotte,” said Mrs. Bennet with civil self-command to Miss Lucas. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Ironically, it was precisely this framing that ensured that the events in Jena would not actually launch a “new civil rights movement.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Much of Jordan’s civil code was based on Islamic law. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “In the fight for civil rights, for instance, there was sometimes violence. Terrible violence. But it eventually led to good as the minds and hearts of people were changed.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Inside, the walls are covered with photographs of civil rights leaders, politicians, and celebrities who have eaten here, like James Brown and pre-heart-bypass Bill Clinton. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He took factory jobs and minor civil service positions and eventually became a bouncer in a bar on Long Island, which was his principal occupation for much of his adult years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Like me, they had taken a civil service test nearly two years before and then not heard a word until January 1997, when we’d all been summoned to Albany for physical and psychological testing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When a country was as primed for civil war as Congo was, when it came apart, the pieces weren’t as heavy. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z What this country needs is an active civil society. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The leaders indefatigable activism, unrelenting pressure, and superior organizing skills laid the foundation for what, in the 1960s, would come to be known as the civil rights movement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z More important, the defamation lawsuits chilled sympathetic coverage of civil rights activism. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “David’s not an internee. He has civil rights. The rule of law exists.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Maybe we'll all be a bit more civil after a good night's sleep. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z His solution may not always be pretty—it may involve coercion or exorbitant penalties or the violation of civil liberties—but the original problem, rest assured, will be fixed. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z This view was a reaction against the civil rights movement and student activism of the 1960s and was seen as objective and fair. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z "I asked a civil question. If you don't care to answer, don't, but don't try to make me look ridiculous." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As the war intensified, the town post office was awash in civil service job bulletins, competing for the eyes of locals and college students alike. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Board of Education decision and endorsed by civil rights litigators “did not offer poor whites even an elementary framework for understanding what they might gain as a result of integration.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The progressives of the Stability Research group, regardless of their actual political practices, were certainly open to accusations of subversion for their embrace of “dangerous” ideas like racial integration, civil rights, and equality for women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As if that weren’t enough, although the fighting in Ireland had come to an end, civil war had broken out in England. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Besides, the black elite had always wrung concessions from the white power structure—slowly but surely—through back-channel meetings, arguing their case in a dignified, rational, and, above all, civil manner. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z With as civil a nod as he could muster, he stepped to the new boy’s side at the bench and drew a washing tray toward him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z For Cleopatra, luck came in the form of the civil war being waged between Caesar and Pompey, the two generals who now ruled Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z It was natural to have some civil hopes on the subject, and he said, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z He said “the so-called moderate” civil rights organizations avoided him as “too militant” and the “so-called militants” avoided him as “too moderate.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, fierce disagreements within Russia itself over how to run the country began a bitter and bloody civil war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z About the time that Arcadio was named civil and military leader they had a daughter. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I did not attend these meetings, which dragged on for both the remaining negligence case against the state and the civil rights case against the caseworkers in federal court. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It is not widely debated in the mainstream media or, for that matter, in civil rights organizations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Support for the legislation was so widespread that several Southern lawmakers cast their first vote ever for a civil rights bill. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Well-known segregationist George Wallace, for example, argued that “the same Supreme Court that ordered integration and encouraged civil rights legislation” was now “bending over backwards to help criminals.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He challenged the racial bias of these actions and the abuse of his civil rights. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Their tribal governments had three branches: a civil administration, a military, and a branch that dealt with the sacred. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I’d chosen not to escape a country heading into civil war. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The Fowls had held on to Fowl Manor over the years, surviving war, civil unrest, and several tax audits. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Moreover, the threat of violence often deterred blacks from pressing legitimate claims, making the “civil rights” of former slaves largely illusory—existing on paper but rarely to be found in real life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Voting Rights Act has been called the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I think—as I thought in 1967—that the black civil rights leaders were correct: Higher education was not, nor is it yet, accessible to many black Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard for me to be civil, and seriously, she couldn’t have missed the tension spilling out of the car alongside the battered boxes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We are all equally surprised that we have been designated civil rights icons who changed history in the eyes of historians and the American people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They envisioned thousands of black brothers converging together upon Washington—to lie down in the streets, on airport runways, on government lawns— demanding of the Congress and the White House some concrete civil rights action. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Race issues still scarred civil society, certainly, but one problem that Americans were happy to live without was the blight that ravaged Europe in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s: militant nationalism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As a society, our collective understanding of racism has been powerfully influenced by the shocking images of the Jim Crow era and the struggle for civil rights. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z More than forty years later, civil rights advocacy is stuck in a model of advocacy King was determined to leave behind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This civil war has not only divided the nation, it has also split countless families, pitting fathers against sons, and brothers against brothers. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “It’s your job to be civil when you get home.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And he had books, too; a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Black civil rights leaders continued to agitate, but the apartheid machinery ground on unheeding. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Like sexual confusion and atom bombs, self-taught civil engineers are causally associated with extinction. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Ms. Gievers developed a list of the individuals most responsible and filed a federal civil rights suit against them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Who becomes a social pariah and excommunicated from civil society and who trots off to college bears scant relationship to the morality of crimes committed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z II When civil rights leaders first demanded the admission of minority students to higher education, academic officials could have challenged their critics to seek the more important reform of primary and secondary education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who were formally students or involved in professions such as civil service, medicine, art, or teaching are considered morally corrupt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The parrot-in-the-chimney affair quite definitely cooled both parents down a lot and for over a week they were comparatively civil to their small daughter. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z They’d charge us with integration violation—I read about it in the paper all the time—they despise the whites that meet with the coloreds to help with the civil rights movement. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Artemis had warned her to be civil, but there was a limit. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The racial imagery associated with the riots gave fuel to the argument that civil rights for blacks led to rampant crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z ‘Orders to you. I’m in command of this pass. So speak civil. What’s your report?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Then you’ll spend the night in jail for vagrancy and threatening behavior. We’ll let you on your way in the morning if you’ve learned to keep a civil tongue in your head.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Like it was my fault the gods had almost gotten into a civil war? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The first few times I saw her after the conversation under the eaves, I was ready for at least a bit of huffiness, but no, she was completely civil, if a little flat. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The ruling marked a significant victory for freedom of the press, and it liberated media outlets and publishers to talk more honestly about civil rights protests and activism. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “They would want to maintain civil order above everything else.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The situation was threatening to lead to a bloody and unequal civil war when the authorities called upon the workers to gather in Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He had recently asked me to help him with an Alabama civil rights case involving law enforcement misconduct. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was then that Frederick Douglass, a civil rights leader who had escaped from slavery ten years before, asked to address the crowd. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The “future war” would be their “test,” as the civil war had been for their parents. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Widespread preoccupation with litigation, however, is not the only—or even the main—reason civil rights groups have shied away from challenging the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Various civil rights groups, including the NAACP, immediately began working for their release and succeeded in having them all set free by the middle of January 1925. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The bitter conflict between Protestants and Catholics, which had led to prolonged civil war in France, to the most terrible massacres and brutalities, had made all claims to truth seem partisan. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z How is the black man going to get “civil rights” before first he wins his human rights? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Tell them how you felt about the coup, the president thrown out before the year was over, the rebels up in the mountains, the civil war, the landing of the marines. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A few more stories followed, as well as chapters in two books about children of the civil rights movement. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The lesson wasn’t lost on the civil rights workers two decades later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I was never more surprised than by his behaviour to us. It was more than civil; it was really attentive; and there was no necessity for such attention. His acquaintance with Elizabeth was very trifling.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Nina had been too young to fight in the Ravkan civil war, and she’d been desperate to be part of the rebuilding of the Second Army. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Those who remained were banished to segregated areas or hidden behind curtains so that white civil servants and visitors to the offices wouldn’t have to see them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They’d had to restore defenses, civil life, industry, and at least the hope of trade. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I explained that what the State had done to him was illegal and that we could pursue a civil action against them, but he had no interest in that. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z All around them, the image of the Domino King grinned out of shiny, scribbled-on photographs with various celebrities and back-in-the-day civil rights leaders. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z But there was a man who’d embezzled money from Grandpa Vaughan’s estate after he died and whom Rosa then sued in civil court. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Days before the second college semester began, we met the civil rights’ activist Harry Belafonte, who was motivated to meet us after seeing the Freedom Writers on television. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The prevailing public consensus affects everyone, including civil rights advocates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Thus installed, the newly minted civil servants fanned out to take their places in one of the research facility’s expanding inventory of buildings, each already as full as a pod ripe with peas. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Gathered around Meredith’s hospital bed, leaders from three civil rights organizations—SCLC, SNCC, and CORE—vowed to complete the march for the fallen activist. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The article claimed King’s decision “to divert the energies of the civil rights movement to the Vietnam issue is both wasteful and self-defeating.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Was he maneuvering to now join the major civil rights leaders whom he had previously bitterly attacked? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In the late sixties, civil rights activists might have harnessed the great idealism that the southern movement inspired in Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A lorry loaded with sofas and shelves and tables was parked by the side, and a man stood beside it talking to a young female civil defender wearing khaki jeans and canvas shoes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Before the war it had a posh civil flying club, and it has also been a Royal Air Force base for years. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The elected leaders of the African American community have a much broader mandate than civil rights groups, but they, too, frequently overlook criminal justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The reporter, Jake Phelps, was, in fact, a longtime advocate of civil rights, though he tried to hide his sympathies from the paper. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet in the 1950s, a civil rights movement was brewing, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s decisions and a shifting domestic and international political environment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Fleeing Back to Egypt As the Romans chose sides between Mark Antony, Octavian, and Marcus Lepidus, the Republic was once again plunged into civil war. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Martin Luther King III were among those who traveled hundreds of miles to participate in what was heralded as “the beginnings of a new civil rights movement.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Chapter 6 reflects on what acknowledging the presence of the New Jim Crow means for the future of civil rights advocacy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So they hired a lawyer, Louis Koerner, to pursue a civil suit against the city, the state, the prisons, the police department, and a half-dozen other agencies and individuals. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Black churches active in the civil rights movement were at risk of being burned or bombed. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas, if you think about it, the Africans are running all over America right now, having riots for their civil rights and predominating the sports and popular-music industries. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a small undersized fellow with a foxy, waxed moustache, who had seen twelve years’ service and was in civil life a postman. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But the region was left deeply unstable, and civil wars raged. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And immediately beyond Korea's borders, Chinese Communists led by Mao Zedong seized control of the mainland in 1949, following a four-year-long civil war with the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He should “stay in his place,” a derisive way of putting down both his race and his domestic civil rights work. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The Court ruled unanimously in our favor, deciding that a condemned prisoner could challenge unconstitutional methods of execution by filing a civil rights case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Father said: “Why, doctor, I am no civil servant. Some of us follow careers and some of us get called out. My work is to bring salvation into the darkness.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a shocking, groundbreaking speech, especially from a civil rights leader. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Studied at the Lyceum of Nezhin, went to St. Petersburg in 1828 where he entered, in 1829, the civil service, in the Department of Public Works for the Ministry of the Interior. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Charles Taylor would come to power in an election in 1997, winning largely because people feared he would restart a civil war if he lost. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z King, along with other civil rights leaders, was arrested a number of times. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Either the peaceful dissolution of the United States or a civil war would occur unless some sort of political bargain was struck. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “They support the civil rights movement,” he reported. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He says this to Isaac because Isaac’s grandparents were part of the Young Lords Party, a Puerto Rican civil rights group. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z She passes me smiling, a civil, neutral smile. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We made an indifferent and unconcerned nation rise from lethargy and subpoenaed its conscience to appear before the judgment seat of morality on the whole question of civil rights. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He’d heard that most human civil wars started as fights between Greek and Roman demigods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Like many civil rights lawyers, I was inspired to attend law school by the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And night after night, Jesse Helms filled the airwaves with vague but alarming allegations of conspiracy and demanded that the authorities investigate civil rights groups. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, however, many of the new civil rights laws were proving largely symbolic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’d seem to slip and mention some recent so-called civil rights “advance.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Advertised as “a convention to discuss the civil and religious condition and rights of women,” it was organized by women Quakers along with pioneering women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The ferocity of the civil war was exacerbated by the epidemic’s impact on a peculiarly Andean institution: royal mummies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After asserting that “the architects of America had covered themselves with glory” through their exposition designs, Burnham rebuked the nation’s civil engineers for failing to rise to the same level of brilliance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z However, his no-compromise policy on racial slights of any sort would have a direct and indirect influence on the civil rights actions of the 1950s and 1960s. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I was no longer attracted by a career in the civil service, or being an interpreter in the Native Affairs Department. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The predictable response is that civil rights advocates are as committed to challenging mass incarceration and other forms of structural racism as they are to preserving affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The awkward silence of the civil rights community, however, is more problematic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I said that the American black man needed to quit thinking what the white man had taught him—which was that the black man had no alternative except to beg for his so-called “civil rights.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I flip-flop back and forth all day, not even really paying attention to the fact that my mom and I have been sort of civil today. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A bit of civil rights history may be helpful here. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On Monday, civil rights attorneys asked federal judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. to issue an injunction, forbidding the state of Alabama to interfere with Tuesday’s planned march. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean... he was an activist? With the civil rights... ?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z If something akin to a racial caste system truly exists, why has the civil rights community been so slow to acknowledge it? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They abhorred McCarthy’s witch hunts for communists and his attacks on civil liberties. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Inspired by one another, the women decided to take action: They planned to gather women together to “discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of Woman.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z One of the major goals of the second Five-Year Plan was to multiply the number of civil air routes across the USSR, covering extreme distances and connecting the far-flung corners of the huge country. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The big civil rights oiganizations right at this time had been publicly squabbling about donations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody seemed worried about an impending civil war. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z You don’t agree that the question of human rights, of civil liberties, is a matter of vital importance to the African people? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the country students were rioting over civil rights, Vietnam, social justice, and government cover-ups involving tapping phones and secret wars. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z |
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