Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Unjust Deeds
Author: Jeffrey D. GondaPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625466
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive covenants--one of the most pervasive tools of residential segregation in the aftermath of World War II. Over the next three years, local activists and lawyers at the NAACP fought through the nation's courts to end the enforcement of these discriminatory contracts. Unjust Deeds explores the origins and complex legacies of their dramatic campaign, culminating in a landmark Supreme Court victory in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). Restoring this story to its proper place in the history of the black freedom struggle, Jeffrey D. Gonda's groundbreaking study provides a critical vantage point to the simultaneously personal, local, and national dimensions of legal activism in the twentieth century and offers a new understanding of the evolving legal fight against Jim Crow in neighborhoods and courtrooms across America.
House documents
Author: Philharmonic
Author: Charles Elston NixonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Philharmonic
Author: Stay Alive: The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds, The Donner Party Expedition, 1846
Author: Rodman PhilbrickPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338692305
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"Soon we will eat the frozen cattle.... And then, when that is gone, what shall we eat?Shall we eat the snow? Shall we eat the ice? Shall we eat the bark on the frozen trees?What shall we eat?"Spring, 1846: Douglas Allen Deeds dreams of starting a new life out West. When the opportunity to join the Donner Party Expedition arises, he leaves the life he's known behind to set out on the nearly 2,000-mile trek from Independence, Missouri to sunny California.But progress is slow. Brutal heat, poisoned water, and rough terrain slows the expedition down. Soon they have a choice: continue on the known but grueling trail, or take a shortcut that would cut 350 miles from their journey-but take them through unknown territory. Is it worth the risk?Winter comes quickly in the mountains, and the wrong choice could leave them stranded in the Sierra Mountains when the snow comes, with no shelter, supplies, or even food.Newbery Honor-winning author Rodman Philbrick brings to life the excitement, danger, and horrors of the Donner Party's journey west.
Ifs & Ans
Author: Henry Brereton Marriott WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
None Other Gods
Author: Robert Hugh BensonPoems
Author: James Shepherd (Writer of Verse.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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Author: Euripides