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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Las Vegas :
University of Nevada Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.