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The Westside Slugger : Joe Neal's Lifelong Fight for Social Justice /

"The Westside Slugger tells the story of Joe Neal, who rose from the sharecropped fields of Madison Parish, Louisiana during the Great Depression to become a history-making state lawmaker in Nevada, once known derisively as "the Mississippi of the West." Neal was part of a group that...

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Autor principal: Smith, John L., 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • From Louisiana soil
  • Welcome to "the Mississippi of the West"
  • Full service, full citizenship
  • From photo opportunities to real opportunities
  • Meet the new boss
  • Breaking into the system
  • Interrupting the party
  • Poetry, prose, and pay toilets
  • Showdowns, putdowns, and letdowns
  • The measure of the law, tested by fire
  • Fighting apartheid in the silver state
  • : death and life in the '80s
  • Causes, crotchets, and column inches
  • A day for Dr. King, years in the making
  • Standing on shaky ground
  • Open doors, open books
  • Radioactive politics
  • The death of Charles Bush
  • Smoke, and fire, and Rodney King
  • Battling artful tax dodgers, and raising the stakes
  • A fly in the anointment
  • In the good fight, until the final bell.