This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality, Hardcover - Jo Ann Allen Boyce

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of t...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Jo NapolitanoNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 221 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. Description"Sustainable" has long been the rallying cry of agricultural progressives; given that much of our nation's farm and ranch land is alread...

Reducere. This is the story of a little girl who just wanted to go, even when others tried to stop her.Jennifer Keelan was determined to make a change--even ...

Reducere. Reveals the historical and political significance of "The Divine Nine"--the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his...

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The extraordinary story of a young Sudanese girl who was kidnapped and sold into slavery and how she finally escaped to freedom.

Reducere. "A superlative memoir of survival....Few wartime memoirs convey with such harrowing immediacy the evil of the Nazi genocide."--Daily Telegraph (Lon...

'Economics for People and the Planet' brings together recent essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality, and the economy.Part One, Ret...

Frederick Douglass dismissed Myrtilla's plan to open a school for African American girls in the slaveholding South as "reckless, almost to the poin...

Reducere. A LESSON IN FAITH AND COURAGE - In 1904 a young Italian man sails to America to become an indentured worker for a cotton farmer in the Mississippi ...

What can one girl do to fight back against the Nazis? Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer shines a light on life under wartime occupation, in a b...

Updated and expanded Dedicated to the entire history of feminist artworks on an international scale, this comprehensive survey traces the ways in w...

Reducere. Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings was known for saying "We're better than this." He said it in Baltimore, a city on the verge of explosion over...

Reducere. THE LONG BLINK is a narrative nonfiction book by Emmy Award-winning journalist, Brian Kuebler, who exposes the staggering cost of the American truc...

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From tulsi to turmeric, echinacea to elderberry, medicinal herbs are big business--but do they deliver on their healing promise--to those who consu...

A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England.

A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England.

A mother's heart-rending account of losing her two daughters in the Hillsborough disaster, her thirty-year quest for justice, and her inspiring jou...

Suffrage and Struggle in Manchester' celebrates the struggle for the recognition of female rights, the centenary of female suffrage and the 90th an...

Personal recollections, newspaper articles, new photos and material from the archives detailing the lives of women in Halifax from 1800-1950, throu...

Part memoir, part call to action, this young readers' edition dives into the inspiring life of the late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings--from c...

Reducere. A compelling novel based on a remarkable true story in World War II.In the early dawn hours of September 8, 1939, ten-year-old Dina Frydman sits at...

"Highly commendable and will keep the debate raging." - John BarnesPublisher: Ad Lib Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Harry HarrisNumber of pages: 352Publi...

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Wide focus on the experiences of women in Northumberland using source material drawn from local archives, local history groups, previous accounts a...

A searing look at the birth of America's space program, and the men and women aviators who set its course.In the 1960s, locked in a heated race to ...

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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. Always, always carry hope...Jo Horsley's story begins as a small child being rocked by her mother, as she struggles to hand Jo to the adoption agen...

Reducere. In the sixteenth century, the church faced a doctrinal crisis. Today, the crisis is race.We all know that racial unity is important. But what's the...

From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider's account of public health and its crucial role--from opioid addiction to global pandemi...

Reducere. Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American d...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller: " Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar's Poker did for our understanding of ...

Reducere. DescriptionExtend the benefits of differentiated teaching to virtually any kind of school situation and student population using the guidelines and...

Reducere. The African American Struggle for Library Equality: The Untold Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Program unveils the almost forgotten phil...

Reducere. It is 741. After subduing the pagan religions in the east, halting the march of Islam in the west, and conquering the continent for the Merovingian...

Reducere. In Mercy's Heroes, a Vietnam veteran battling with PTSD turns from the business world to life as a volunteer, helping to rescue and protect street ...

Reducere. In Mercy's Heroes, a Vietnam veteran battling with PTSD turns from the business world to life as a volunteer, helping to rescue and protect street ...

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 ...

DescriptionWhether on his own, with his family band, or as a duet act with his sister CeCe, this Grammy-winning singer is Gospel music royalty with...

In this inspiring story of individual activism, a boy recognizes gender inequality when his sister must stop attending school --- and decides to do...