Author: National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeoplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Papers of the NAACP: The NAACP and labor, 1940-1955. ser. A. Subject files on labor conditions and employment discrimination, 1940-1955 (21 reels) ; ser. B. Cooperation with organized labor, 1940-1955 (25 reels) ; ser. C. Legal Department files on labor, 1940-1955 (12 reels) ; pt.13, suppl. 1956-1965 (16 reels)
Author: National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeoplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Papers of the NAACP, Part 13
Author: National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeoplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: Papers of the NAACP.
Author: National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeoplePublisher:
ISBN: 9781556555114
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Labor and the New Deal
Author: Louis StarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Highlander Folk School
Author: Aimee Isgrig HortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book reviews the history of the Highlander Folk School (Summerfield, Tennessee) and describes school programs that were developed to support Black and White southerners involved in social change. The Highlander Folk School was a small, residential adult education institution founded in 1932. The first section of the book provides background information on Myles Horton, the founder of the school, and on circumstances that led him to establish the school. Horton's experience growing up in the South, as well as his educational experience as a sociology and theology student, served to strengthen his dedication to democratic social change through education. The next four sections of the book describe the programs developed during the school's 30-year history, including educational programs for the unemployed and impoverished residents of Cumberland Mountain during the Great Depression; for new leaders in the southern industrial union movement during its critical period; for groups of small farmers when the National Farmers Union sought to organize in the South; and for adult and student leadership in the emerging civil rights movement. Horton's pragmatic leadership allowed educational programs to evolve in order to meet community needs. For example, Highlander's civil rights programs began with a workshop on school desegregation and evolved more broadly to prepare volunteers from civil rights groups to teach "citizenship schools," where Blacks could learn basic literacy skills needed to pass voter registration tests. Beginning in 1958, and until the school's charter was revoked and its property confiscated by the State of Tennessee in 1961, the school was under mounting attacks by highly-placed government leaders and others because of its support of the growing civil rights movement. Contains 270 references, chapter notes, and an index. (LP)
Rosie the Riveter Revisited
Author: Sherna Berger GluckPublisher: Plume
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The women who tell their stories in this extraordinary oral history worked in World War II defense plants.
Upheaval in the Quiet Zone
Author: Leon FinkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Papers of the NAACP.
Author: National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeoplePublisher:
ISBN: 9781556555220
Category : African American youth
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
When Abortion Was a Crime
Author: Leslie J. ReaganPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520387422
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what’s to come. When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-read book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed—and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. With this edition, Leslie J. Reagan provides a new preface that addresses the dangerous and ongoing threats to abortion access across the country, and the precarity of our current moment. While abortions have typically been portrayed as grim "back alley" operations, this deeply researched history confirms that many abortion providers—including physicians—practiced openly and safely, despite prohibitions by the state and the American Medical Association. Women could find cooperative and reliable practitioners; but prosecution, public humiliation, loss of privacy, and inferior medical care were a constant threat. Reagan's analysis of previously untapped sources, including inquest records and trial transcripts, shows the fragility of patient rights and raises provocative questions about the relationship between medicine and law. With the right to abortion increasingly under attack, this book remains the definitive history of abortion in the United States, offering vital lessons for every American concerned with health care, civil liberties, and personal and sexual freedom.