Just Trying to Have School: The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi

DescriptionTraces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of...

In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the Ame...

DescriptionIn the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools...

"The challenges of identity, assimilation, achievement, and politics that were faced by Lahoma and Cindy are the same challenges our youth are faci...

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United St...

Reducere. This classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. Wh...

Reducere. Expansive and ambitious yet comprehensive and coherent, From Slavery to Services: The Struggle for Economic Independence in the Caribbean is a tour...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Matthew F. DelmontIn the decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve s...

Reducere. Mississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black res...

Reducere. In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson's Restaurant, just a few blocks from the ...

Reducere. "A story of daring in a time of great danger ... of two unknown heroes working for justice."--Dennis Flannigan, Washington State Representative, 20...

Reducere. From David Gedge's school days through to concerts in 2016, the book is packed with full colour images, including many from David s personal archiv...

A witty, poignant and candid memoir of one woman's dream of shedding her English inhibitions and becoming French.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s):...

Reducere. DescriptionDoes someone you know have cancer? Do you have cancer? Are you going to be taking care of someone who has cancer? Or, perhaps you want t...

Reducere. In Becoming Indian, author Circe Sturm examines Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon of racial shifting. Racial shifters, as described by ...

This book includes an analysis of the most significant Supreme Court cases that have been decided in the ten years since the first edition of the b...

Reducere. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabe...

Reducere. A compelling history. -- Foreword Reviews Inspiring and well-researched. -- Booklist The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one o...

Reducere. Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outca...

Reducere. As the father of the nuclear powered Navy, Adm. Hyman G. Rickover was a pivotal figure in twentieth-century American history. While many books have...

A unique approach to studying police forces around the globe.Publisher: SAGE Publications IncAuthor(s): Ibrahim CerrahNumber of pages: 432Publicati...

Ancillary purchase book appropriate for incoming and first - year law students, law students in academic support programs, pre - law students, and ...

Reducere. Does it appear to be extremely scary? How might you begin speaking profanely with your accomplice? Is your brain letting you know 'You can't do tha...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William LavenderWhen Lady Jane, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charlestown, South Carolina, in 1776, she ...

Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardWinner of the Washington Institute Book PrizeOne of the Best Books of the YearSt. Louis Post-Dispatch * Kir...

Publisher: Gaia Project PressAuthor(s): Jai RedmanIllustration(s): 82 colourNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 189 x 10Cove...

Squirrel Girl takes Nancy to visit her mom in Canada! What could possibly go wrong? How about the return of a villain not seen for more than a deca...

MAKE SCHOOL BETTER looks at the pivotal role all parents and carers can have in their child's experience of education, and the practical things the...

Explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. This book shows how human rights standa...

Leading interdisciplinary scholars focus on the 'social' of social policy. This ground-breaking volume tackles pressing 'social questions' and crit...

A diverse and innovative collection that explores the radical and innovative ways in which public services in the global south are being remade fro...

The St. Croix-born, Harlem-based Hubert Harrison (1883-1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist who combined class cons...

Reducere. A personal story of the struggle for authentic inclusion in the church. From a strong voice in the dialogue about what Black lives matter means in ...

Reducere. For generations, the Ojibwe bands of northern Wisconsin have spearfished spawning walleyed pike in the springtime. The bands reserved hunting, fish...

Leading interdisciplinary scholars focus on the 'social' of social policy. This ground-breaking volume tackles pressing 'social questions' and crit...

Ben & Jerry’s have always been committed to an insanely ambitious three-part mission: making the world’s best ice cream, supporting progressive cau...

Reducere. You study hard. You memorize. You work at a problem over and over until it feels like your head is going to explode. You think, finally I'm ready f...

Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle f...

Reducere. Alan Heymann is not an expert in any one given thing, nor do his talents extend to researching a thing thoroughly enough to write a book about it. ...

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that...