The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, Hardcover - Steve Sheinkin

Reducere. An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion ...

An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion ...

DescriptionOn New Year's Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified several ...

Reducere. Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or ...

"I will always be somebody." This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only A...

Reducere. A beautifully illustrated children's book about the fight for queer rights Around one o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1969, police raided the St...

Reducere. Celebrate the remarkable stories, events, and landmarks of the global LGBTQ movement with this inspirational and empowering infographic guide to th...

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 ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Patricia BeardIn March 2005 the business world woke up to an unprecedented full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal calling ...

Reducere. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world's most resolute, intellec...

Reducere. "Engaging . . . With a novelist's eye for biographical detail, Epps has written an . . . enthralling book."--David W. Blight, Chicago TribuneThe la...

A colourful cast of characters from Roman mythology are brought to life in this series of adventures with a fesity female heroine. Percy Jackson fo...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Victoria W. WolcottIllustration(s): 16 halftones, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 272Publication date...

DescriptionThe 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and milita...

Reducere. From war-torn Olympus to New York City, mythology and reality collide in a breathtaking adventure.

The lessons of the civil rights movements of the fifties and sixties as they might helpfully influence contemporary political activism are explored...

Reducere. DescriptionMost Dangerous is the award-winning nonfiction account of an ordinary man who wielded the most dangerous weapon: the truth. In 1964, Dan...

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 ...

Reducere. Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or ...

Reducere. "A classic. . . . It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American l...

Contributor(s): Author: Ilene CooperEleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice shows young readers how the former First Lady evolved from a poor little...

Reducere. In a working life that spanned half a century, Ernie Goodman was one of the nation's preeminent defense attorneys for workers and the militant poor...

Reducere. While Florida is rarely considered a traditional southern state, its history of race relations reveals otherwise. This study of the civil rights mo...

Reducere. This Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader with more than 30 sparkling stickers is based on Disney's new animated film Raya and the Last Dragon--...

Reducere. Among similar countries, the United States has a unique problem with gun violence. Gun-related deaths and injuries happen at high rates every year....

Reducere. Since the earliest days of slavery, African Americans have called on their religious faith in the struggle against oppression. In this book the Bea...

Reducere. A collective biography about five musicians and groups at the height of their careers, whose passion and talent influenced the Civil Rights Movemen...

Reducere. A great American sport and Native American history come together in this true story for middle grade readers about how Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner cr...

This book, which accompanies a bold and forward-facing British Library exhibition, presents the history of women's rights in sixteen diverse and ti...

The struggle for Catholic emancipation in 19th century Britain and the shattering of the traditional flow of power that came with the crumbling of ...

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom, " Heather Cox Richardson argues in this ...