| Description |
1 online resource (151 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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OUP E-Books
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Apostles of liberty : 1768: Virginia Baptists challenge the state church in the name of religious freedom -- Who claims me? : 1851: anti-slavery activists in Boston take a stand against the Fugitive Slave Law -- Freedom's main line : 1870: black citizens of Louisville, Ky., use civil disobedience to protest segregation on the public streetcars -- This land is ours : 1877: a leader of the Ponca tribe in Nebraska chamions his people's right to their ancestral home -- The strike for three loaves : 1912: immigrant laborers in a Massachusetts mill town join forces to demand fair pay for a day's work -- Road trip for suffrage : 1915: three activists embark on a daring cross-country journey in support of women's voting rights -- The house on Lemon Street : 1916: a Riverside, Calif., family battle unjust laws aimed at immigrants of Japanese ancestry -- A tale of two schools : 1945: Mexican American parents in Westminster, Calif., struggle to overturn the policy of school segregation -- Against the current : 1974: Native Americans claim their treaty fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest -- Wheels of justice : 1977: disability rights activists stage a month-long sit-in at a government building in San Francisco -- Going to bat for girls : 1992: a Nebraska farm family questions the tradition of gender inequity in school sports -- The battle of Spanish Fork : 1997: a gay Utah educator fights for her right to teach -- Afterword |
| Summary |
Examines the efforts of many different people in American history to secure equal treatment in such areas as religion, voting rights, education, housing, and employment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-145) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
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Equality -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
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Civil rights -- History
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JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Social Science -- General.
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Civil rights.
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Equality.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Juvenile works.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fleming, Maria
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| LC no. |
2001036501 |
| ISBN |
1423774876 |
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9781423774877 |
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1280564296 |
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9781280564291 |
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9786610564293 |
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6610564299 |
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9780195150360 |
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0195150368 |
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