Protest Book Reviews Samples For Students

- In what way did Dr. Martin King Luther King use non-violent protests in the Civil Rights Movement?
At the staff retreat of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), King talked about the dangers of violence. King said, “Violence has been the inseparable twin of materialism, the hallmark of its grandeur”, and he stood his ground against it on the basis that hate engenders violence. Hence, to curb hate and violence, King saw the importance of participating in peaceful protests no matter how unjust the situations they were in and how difficult it was for Black people to ...

Approximately 100 years after Union troops settled the issue of slavery, a second Civil War played out in America’s courts and on the streets of the America South. In Mississippi, as in Alabama, Georgia and other states where the Civil Rights movement played out, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown vs. the Board of Education and the ensuing battle over school integration inflamed white folks, who adopted every available tactic to maintain the doctrine of “separate but equal.” Black folks responded with incredible courage, implementing strategies that would eventually turn the tide in the battle for civil ...

Introduction

The book “The French and their Revolution by Richard Cobb” describes the French Revolution that took place in the last decade of the 18th century, between 1789 and 1799. This period was marred with political and social turmoil in European history. The revolt resulted in the crumple of the ‘absolute’ kingdom that had governed France for several decades. This book gives a brief summary of the revolution and how the government reacted towards the same. The author states that monarchy had ruled France for years which resulted into different social classes emerging. There was a very big gap between the poor ...

1: Book Information

This book is as a result of informative essays on the daily life during the French revolution. The essays are presented from a Master historian who had the gift of understanding some great historic events in terms of ordinary human relations. The author admired chronicles of daily life in Revolutionary France. He gathers the accounts into one volume with an enlightening introduction by his former pupil David Gilmour. In the book, the reader is able to not only meet history makers like Danton and Robespierre but is able to understand the occurrence of several events during the time of the revolutions. ...

My work is devoted to the book “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town” by Jon Krakauer. It is devoted to the series of sexual rapes which happened at the University of Montana, in the town of Missoula. Missoula is an ordinary college town, which has a state university with its own football team, the Grizzlies. Between years 2008 and 2012 there were over 300 sexual assaults reported to the local police station. Most of these cases were settled by the university or local authority. The author of the book examines several cases more deeply and ...

Introduction

Marlene LeGates is the author of a book called “Making Waves: A History of Feminism in Western Society.” The book was written in the year 1996 and was published by the Copp Clark Press. LeGates has written two other books as well. In 1970, she wrote “The Knights and the State in Sixteenth-Century Germany.” In the year 2012, she wrote the book, “In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society.” LeGates has spent her life pursuing her teaching career. However, a majority of her career was spent teaching history and women’s studies at Capilano College, which ...

"Walden or Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau belongs to the vivid and memorable American works of classical literature. The personality of the author and the pages of his famous book highlight anti-capitalist, romantic, and utopian ideas that received considerable spread in the United States in the 30-40-ies of the last century and these ideas were a kind of protest against the brutality of the bourgeois industrial progress and its accompanying social ills.
  The ideological pioneers of the anti-capitalist and romantic-utopian protests were called transcendentalists. It is a circle of prominent representatives of the American democratic intelligentsia, ...

Introduction

In the past, the place of women in the society was only recognized as that next to the man. Her roles and responsibilities clearly defined as that of being a home-maker, the support for her husband, a mother to her children, nothing more, nothing less. Girls that eventually became women grew up with these facts as they were taught and instilled in them from a tender age hence did not expect any more from life. However, there are those that challenged these societal expectations. Questioned these roles and responsibilities that they were expected to live by. These individuals went against the grain ...

The zoot suit culture was flamboyant embedded in fashion, unique patterns of speech, lindy hop dancing, jazz, swing music and jitterbug among other factors captivating the youth in the 1940’s. In this book, Luis Alvarez explains the relationship between race, region and politics of culture during the World War II in the urban America. He argued that most of the American youth from diverse communities such as African American, Mexican and American youths adopted the popular culture in opposing the commonly accepted modes of youthful behaviors. For example, the dominance of white, middle class expectations and behaviors was ...

A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill

A saint on death row is a story that was written by an Irish-American author Thomas Cahill. In this tragic and heart wrenching story of a death row inmate known as Dominique Green, Thomas brings out the injustices and flaws that surround the American legal system. The issue of racism also comes up because the death row inmate (Dominique Green) was African American.

About the Author

Thomas Cahill is an American scholar born in New York in 1940 to Irish- American parents. Cahill grew up in Queens and the Bronx. He studied at Greek and Latin Literature, scripture and theology as well as medieval ...

In Ellen Baker's book On Strike and On Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America, the author discusses attributes of racial and gender inequality that existed within the 1950s, as well as leftist attempts to combat these developments. During the 1951 miner's strike of Hanover, New Mexico, union leaders collaborated between blacklisted Hollywood filmmakers to create a film called Salt of the Earth, a controversial yet highly effective film that provided a filmic representation of leftist desire and calls for equality, for both women and minorities. Baker provides a detailed account of the circumstances leading up to the creation ...

George Hicks's book “comfort Women” is about "the legalized military rape of subject women on a scale ... previously unknown in history." The first question that gets answered by this book is about the reason for a long silence that haunted this issue; actually in Asian countries the chastity of women is precious and “comfort women”kept silent in order to keep their hopes of getting married alive. There are other reasons as well which are basically related to the Government’s defensive approach on this issue and since a long time the officials have continued “claiming that the comfort women were ...