wyszukanych pozycji: 4
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Learning from Birmingham: A Journey Into History and Home
ISBN: 9780817361068 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A steel town daughter’s search for truth and beauty in Birmingham, Alabama “As Birmingham goes, so goes the nation,” Fred Shuttlesworth observed when he invited Martin Luther King Jr. to the city for the transformative protests of 1963. From the height of the Civil Rights Movement through its long aftermath, images of police dogs, fire hoses and four girls murdered when Ku Klux Klan members bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church have served as an uncomfortable racial mirror for the nation. Like many white people who came of age in the Civil Rights Movement’s wake, Julie Buckner...
A steel town daughter’s search for truth and beauty in Birmingham, Alabama “As Birmingham goes, so goes the nation,” Fred Shuttlesworth observ...
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93,39 |
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Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom's Bittersweet Song
ISBN: 9780415932578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Since the late 1980s, there has been a renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the struggles into our homes and classrooms once again. New evidence in older criminal cases demands that the judicial system reconsider the accuracy of investigations and legal decisions. Racial profiling, affirmative action, voting districting, and school voucher programs keep civil rights on the front burner in the political arena.
Since the late 1980s, there has been a renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the strug...
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201,58 |
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Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching
ISBN: 9780820337661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching" traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant woman near Valdosta, Georgia. In 1918, the murder of a white farmer led to a week of mob violence that claimed the lives of at least eleven African Americans, including Hayes Turner. When his wife Mary vowed to press charges against the killers, she too fell victim to the mob. Mary's lynching was particularly brutal and involved the grisly death of her eight-month-old fetus. It led to both an entrenched local silence and a widespread... "Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching" traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregna... |
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158,25 |
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Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching
ISBN: 9780820337654 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant woman near Valdosta, Georgia. In 1918, the murder of a white farmer led to a week of mob violence that claimed the lives of at least eleven African Americans, including Hayes Turner. When his wife Mary vowed to press charges against the killers, she too fell victim to the mob. Mary's lynching was particularly brutal and involved the grisly death of her eight-month-old fetus. It led to both an entrenched local silence and a... Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a p... |
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699,73 |