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3) Refuse to stand silently by: an oral history of grass roots social activism in America, 1921-1964
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 430 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction
New York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate “America’s second revolutionary generation” in this gripping history of one of the most dynamic eras of the twentieth century—brought to life through seven defining radical moments that offer vibrant parallels and lessons for
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Fifties is a work of history that transforms our understanding of a decade and honors the pioneers of gay rights, feminism, civil rights, and environmentalism. The book carries the powerful message that change actually begins not in mass movements and new legislation but in the lives of de-centered, often lonely individuals, who learn to fight for change in a daily struggle with themselves." -- inside front jacket flap.
9) History in dispute: Vol. 3 :American social and political movements, 1900-1945 : pursuit of progress
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxiv, 323 pages) : illustrations, photos
Language
English
Description
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers American social and political movements, 1900-1945. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Young and Restless recounts one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution: teenage girls. From the American Revolution itself to the Civil Rights Movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women’s liberation movement, through Black Lives Matter and school strikes for climate, Mattie Kahn uncovers how girls have leveraged their unique strengths, from fandom to intimate friendships, to organize and...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Today "populism" is seen as a frightening thing, a term pundits use to describe the racist philosophy of Donald Trump and European extremists. But the real story of populism is the story of American democracy itself, of its ever-widening promise of a decent life for all. Taking us from the tumultuous 1890s, when the radical left-wing Populist Party fought Gilded Age plutocrats to the reformers' great triumphs under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman,...
12) History in dispute: Vol. 2 :American social and political movements, 1945-2000: pursuit of liberty
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxiv, 323 pages) : illustrations, photos
Language
English
Description
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers American social and political movements, 1945-2000. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions-those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 611 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
During the academic calendar year of 1969 and 1970 schools across the country witnessed protests and acts of arson or bombings; students went on strike, and many colleges were forced to shut down. Bingham provides an oral history of that year when the anti-war movement could no longer be written off as fringe, and when America seemed on the brink of a revolution at home. In the words of those closest to the action-- activists, organizers, criminals,...
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