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A place at the table : struggles for equality in America /
Examines the efforts of many different people in American history to secure equal treatment in such areas as religion, voting rights, education, housing, and employment.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press in association with the Southern Poverty Law Center,
©2001.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Apostles of liberty : 1768: Virginia Baptists challenge the state church in the name of religious freedom
- Who claims me? : 1851: anti-slavery activists in Boston take a stand against the Fugitive Slave Law
- Freedom's main line : 1870: black citizens of Louisville, Ky., use civil disobedience to protest segregation on the public streetcars
- This land is ours : 1877: a leader of the Ponca tribe in Nebraska chamions his people's right to their ancestral home
- The strike for three loaves : 1912: immigrant laborers in a Massachusetts mill town join forces to demand fair pay for a day's work
- Road trip for suffrage : 1915: three activists embark on a daring cross-country journey in support of women's voting rights
- The house on Lemon Street : 1916: a Riverside, Calif., family battle unjust laws aimed at immigrants of Japanese ancestry
- A tale of two schools : 1945: Mexican American parents in Westminster, Calif., struggle to overturn the policy of school segregation
- Against the current : 1974: Native Americans claim their treaty fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest
- Wheels of justice : 1977: disability rights activists stage a month-long sit-in at a government building in San Francisco
- Going to bat for girls : 1992: a Nebraska farm family questions the tradition of gender inequity in school sports
- The battle of Spanish Fork : 1997: a gay Utah educator fights for her right to teach
- Afterword.