The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library, Paperback - Louise S. Robbins

Reducere. WILLA Literary AwardIn 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thir...

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

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...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ruth ColkerIllustration(s): 1 tableNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x ...

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Reducere. Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 mur...

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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...

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Reducere. Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Comb...

An introductory book on the powerful topic of LGBTQ+ rights throughout history and the progress that is still being made todayPublisher: Hachette C...

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

Reducere. In this Bancroft Prize-winning history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that ...

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 ...

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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...

The historic Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter Sit-in on February 1, 1960 is one of the most well known incidents in Civil Rights history. T...

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An introductory book on the powerful topic of human rights throughout history and the impact it has on our lives todayPublisher: Hachette Children'...

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Reducere. In a revelatory work praised as "excellent and timely" (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes...

DescriptionThe American Civil Rights Movement: A documentary history collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Ci...

Reducere. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car--the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility--has always held particular importance for Afric...

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.Author(s): Angela ShanteNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 235 x 11Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

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Reducere. Relive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history. Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans ...

DescriptionPoetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freed...

Introductory books on powerful topics, that explore civil rights movements and moments from history and the progress that is still being made today

Reducere. Food has been and continues to be an essential part of any movement for progressive change. From home cooks and professional chefs to local eaterie...

Reducere. Since its very beginnings, St. Louis has been at the forefront of America's struggle for equality. Many people have contributed to the fight for ju...

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

Publisher: Encounter Books, USAAuthor(s): Greg LukianoffNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 23Cover type: Paperback /...

The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Vagina and The End of America illuminates a dramatic history - how the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 ...

Wollstonecraft's 1792 work sets out all the chief principles of feminist thought developed by later feminist writers and activists. Written in the ...

Reducere. It's hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for African Americans. Before the Civil War, masters confined their ...

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Reducere. Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far fr...

Reducere. Key events of the Civil Rights Movement will be brought to life in this exciting and informative new series.The civil rights movement in 1965 was f...