wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White
ISBN: 9780807859285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nation's leading historians. A friendship and a correspondence began, lasting until Murray's death in 1985. Ware, a Boston Brahmin born in 1899, was a scholar, a leading consumer advocate, and a political activist. Murray, born in 1910 and raised in North Carolina, with few resources except her intelligence and determination, graduated from college at 16 and made her way to law school, where she organized student sit-ins to...
In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline...
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Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History
ISBN: 9780252063206 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Suitable for not only historians and sociologists but also to those working with or studying voluntary organizations.
Suitable for not only historians and sociologists but also to those working with or studying voluntary organizations.
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135,32 zł |
Vein of Iron. Afterword by Anne Firor Scott
ISBN: 9780813916361 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A novel that takes place in the Valley of Virginia, tracing the experience of a family with four generations of strong women.
A novel that takes place in the Valley of Virginia, tracing the experience of a family with four generations of strong women.
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My Friend, Julia Lathrop
ISBN: 9780252071683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Biography of one Jane Addams best friend written after Julia Lathrop's death. As one of the four members of the inner circle at Hull-House, Julia Lathrop played an instrumental role in the field of social reform for more than fifty years. Working tirelessly for women, children, immigrants and workers, she was the first head of the federal Children's Bureau, an ardent advocate of woman suffrage, and a cultural leader. She was also one of Jane Addams's best friends. My Friend, Julia Lathrop is Addams' lovingly rendered biography of a memorable colleague and confidant. The memoir reveals a great...
Biography of one Jane Addams best friend written after Julia Lathrop's death. As one of the four members of the inner circle at Hull-House, Julia Lath...
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Democracy and Social Ethics
ISBN: 9780674729339 / Angielski / Twarda / 1964 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Excerpt: ...and is emerging from the narrower code of family ethics into the larger code governing social relations. It still remains to express the ethical advance through changed economic conditions by which the actual needs of the family may be supplied not only more effectively but more in line with associated effort. To fail to apprehend the tendency of one's age, and to fail to adapt the conditions of an industry to it, is to leave that industry ill-adjusted and belated on the economic side, and out of line ethically. CHAPTER V INDUSTRIAL AMELIORATION There is no doubt that the great...
Excerpt: ...and is emerging from the narrower code of family ethics into the larger code governing social relations. It still remains to express the e...
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295,43 zł |
Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South
ISBN: 9780807131336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Born, raised, and retired in Mississippi, Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895--1997) was a champion for the rights of women long before feminism emerged as a widely recognized movement. As told by Dorothy S. Shawhan and Martha H. Swain, hers is a remarkable life story-from a small-town upbringing to a career as an attorney, an activist, and the last of a generation of New Deal women in Washington, D.C. She held a presidential appointment under every chief executive from Franklin Roosevelt to John Kennedy. Howorth was a fervent believer in the power of organizations to bring about change, and... Born, raised, and retired in Mississippi, Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895--1997) was a champion for the rights of women long before feminism emerged ... |
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245,28 zł |