Mary Frances Berry
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Historian Berry resurrects the forgotten life of courageous pioneering activist Callie House (1861-1928), ex-slave, widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five who, seventy years before the civil rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations. House was born into slavery in 1861 and sought African-American pensions based on those offered Union soldiers, targeting taxes on seized rebel cotton (over $1.2 billion in 2005 dollars) and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This book is the first history in forty years of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The author, who has been member of the commission for more than twenty years and chairperson for more than a decade, describes its founding in 1957 by President Eisenhower in response to the burgeoning civil rights protest. She makes clear that, from the outset, the commission was designed to be an independent bipartisan federal agency, beholden to no government body,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and noted professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, a book that examines both civil and criminal court cases from the Civil War to the present, to reveal the impact of stereotyping - race, class, gender - on the American legal system.
The question Mary Frances Berry asks: Whose story most strongly influences the making of legal decisions in the American justice system? Using...
5) Power in words: the stories behind Barack Obama's speeches, from the state house to the White House
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
