Civil Rights Baby: My Story of Race, Sports, and Breaking Barriers in American Journalism, Paperback - Nita Wiggins

Reducere. How would you fight to keep your dream alive? In this relatable true story, award-winning journalist Nita Wiggins reveals the abuses that happen of...

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A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

Do you think it's too early to teach your children about the decades old fight for civil rights? No, because today is actually the perfect time to ...

Reducere. The civil rights movement was defined by figures thrust into positions of importance; be they participants in a sit-in, Freedom Riders, or marchers...

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Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

1967. Two rival football teams. Two legendary coaches. Two talented quarterbacks. Together they broke the color line, revolutionized college sports...

On 22 July 2012 the author became the first British cyclist ever to win the Tour de France. In an instant, 'Wiggo' became a national hero. Ten days...

Reducere. DescriptionThe son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of segregation early in life. Inspired by the words of Dr. Mart...

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"In pointing us toward how to be 'better than we are, ' Gene Patterson--passionate, funny, sound of mind and full of heart--coincidentally reminds ...

In 2012 Bradley Wiggins became the first British rider ever to win the Tour de France and the most decorated Olympian of all time. This is his stor...

The inside story of Bradley Wiggins's record-breaking rideFor 60 minutes this summer, the British public stopped what they were doing, switched on ...

Reducere. Loren Miller was one of the nation's most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimin...

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Reducere. An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl o...

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Inspired by a 1968 US Commission on Civil Rights six-day hearing in San Antonio that introduced the Mexican American people to the rest of the nati...

Reducere. A biography of John Lewis, one of the "Big Six" civil rights leaders of the 1960s, focusing on his involvement in Freedom Rides, the March on Washi...

Reducere. In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by Afr...

Reducere. Winner of the Alice Hanson Jones Prize, Economic History AssociationA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe civil rights movement was al...

Herein The African American Civil Rights Movement is presented with 538 pages of primary documents after the civil war. Take a first-hand look into...

Reducere. Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681, 790 to just 45, 594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, h...

Reducere. They said, "No " She asked, "Why?" The answer was always the same: "Because you're a woman." She vowed to shatter each barrier they placed in her w...

Reducere. This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson's Operation PU...

DescriptionThe history of sports and race is messy. In baseball Jackie Robinson is universally touted as the first black major league player, which...

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Awards🏆Winner (2002) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: David W. BlightNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America'...

Reducere. The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to t...

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Reducere. Volume 2 of Double Exposure commemorates the ongoing fight to fulfil the promise of freedom and equality for all American citizens, from the Civil ...

Reducere. "For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders o...

A call to South Asian women to question everything they've been taught about self-lovePublisher: Hardie Grant Books (UK)Author(s): Sharan DhaliwalI...

Reducere. Description"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides ...

Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement is a unique sociohistorical analysis of the civil rights movement. In it Jack M. Bloom analyzes the inte...

Reducere. With a new introduction by celebrated baseball writer Roger Kahn and a new afterword by the author, updating John Henry's first year of ownership a...

Reducere. Infamous Scribblers is a perceptive and witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press. News correspondent and ...

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An African American Dilemma offers the first social history of northern Black debates over school integration versus separation from the 1840s to t...

Reducere. Latinas Rising Up in HR proudly showcases miraculous stories of aspiring human resources professionals who overcame obstacles and defied statistics...

Reducere. Including Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, read the stories of the amazing men an...

Reducere. Award-winning journalist Gillian Tett "applies her anthropologist's lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to...

Reducere. Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., this is the first compilation of its kind, bringing together the most influen...