Robert F. Kennedy once likened each act of civil disobedience in the name of justice to a ripple of hope – a single wave of activism which when gathered with others, causes a grand wave of change. Now, Basic Civitas is proud to publish RIPPLES OF HOPE, the first ever collection of American civil rights speeches. With a foreword from President Bill Clinton, and an afterword by Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, these speeches span the entire range of U.S. history – from the colonial period to the present. Taken as a whole, these “ripples of hope” constitute a unique chronicle of the nation’s civil rights movements, and the critical issues they’ve tackled from slavery and suffrage to immigration and affirmative action. Check out a copy of this book RIPPLES OF HOPE in stores now.
