Search Results - civil rights

Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! : Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement / by Costanza-Chock, Sasha, 1976-

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"A Road to Peace and Freedom" : The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954 / by Zecker, Robert, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A practical demonstration in democracy: the IWO -- A plan for plenty: the IWO tames capitalism -- We dare entertain thoughts not to the liking of present-day bigots: race, civil rights and the IWO -- A mandolin orchestra could attract a lot of attention: interracial fun -- Foreign policy and the IWO -- A fraternal order sentenced to death!…”
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Keeping the People's Liberties : Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights / by Dinan, John J.

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Ending the Civil War and Consequences for Congress /

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Equality under the Constitution : Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment / by Baer, Judith A.

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Voices raised in protest defending citizens of Japanese ancestry in North America, 1942-49 / by Bangarth, Stephanie D. (Stephanie Danielle), 1972-

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Cops and Kids : Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940 / by Wolcott, David B.

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Game of Privilege : An African American History of Golf / by Demas, Lane

Table of Contents: “…Real democracy is found on the links : African Americans and the origins of golf in the United States -- One hears of Negro country clubs : golfing the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance -- Our masters : the development of the United Golfers Association -- I will take your own golf stick and wham the world : golf and the postwar civil rights movement -- Guns in their golf bags : Black Power on the links -- Thai people don't get hate mail : race and golf in the age of Tiger Woods.…”
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America's Disenfranchised : Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul of Our Democracy / by Meade, Desmond, 1967-

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Privacy on the Line : The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption / by Diffie, Whitfield

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We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán / by Spener, David, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…South : blacks and whites, slavery and spirituals -- From worship to work : a spiritual is adopted by the U.S. labor movement and the left -- From union song to freedom song : civil rights activists sing an old tune for a new cause -- From English in the U.S. …”
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Mad Men, Mad World : Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s /

Table of Contents: “…Maddening times : Mad men in its history / Dana Polan -- Mad space / Dianne Harris -- Representing the mad margins of the early 1960s : Northern civil rights and the blues idiom / Clarence Lang -- After the sex, what? …”
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Barack Obama's America : How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era / by White, John Kenneth

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Sex Scene : Media and the Sexual Revolution /

Table of Contents: “…: Hollywood cinema and the end of the production code / Christie Milliken -- Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes home (1968-1978) / Linda Williams -- The new sexual culture of American television in the 1970s / Elana Levine -- Prurient (dis)interest : The American release and reception of I am curious (yellow) / Kevin Heffernan -- Wet dreams : erotic film festivals of the early 1970s and the utopian sexual public sphere / Elena Gorfinkel -- Let the sweet juices flow : WR and midnight movie culture / Joan Hawkins -- 33 1/3 sexual revolutions per minute / Jacob Smith -- "I'll take Sweden" : the shifting discourse of the "sexy nation" in sexploitation films / Eric Schaefer -- Altered sex : Satan, acid, and the erotic threshold / Jeffrey Sconce -- The "sexarama" : or sex education as an environmental multimedia experience / Eithne Johnson -- San Francisco and the politics of hardcore / Joseph Lam Duong -- Beefcake to hardcore : gay pornography and the sexual revolution / Jeffrey Escoffier -- Publicizing sex through consumer and privacy rights : how the American Civil Liberties Union liberated media in the 1960s / Leigh Ann Wheeler -- Critics and the sex scene / Raymond J. …”
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Presidential Accountability in Wartime : President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War / by Streichler, Stuart, 1957-

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A Criminal Power : James Baldwin and the Law / by Miller, D. Quentin (Daniel Quentin), 1967-

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