(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the fight to abolish slavery in the 1800's to the efforts to stop segregation in the 1900's, this program chronicles the civil rights movement in America. Viewers will learn about the courageous leaders of the civil rights movement who led the fight for freedom and fairness for all Americans.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching," writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the American Revolution to Black Lives Matter, Americans have come to associate freedom with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. Few ideas are as central to the national mythos. But whenever the federal government has taken a stand for racial minorities, however halfhearted, white Americans have been quick to weaponize the concept of freedom, framing the state itself as a tyrannical obstacle to their own liberties. In Freedom's Dominion,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The political landscape of the 1960s and 1970s was perhaps one of the most tumultuous in this country's history, shaped by the fight for civil rights, women's liberation, Black power, and the end to the Vietnam War. In many ways, this second American revolution was a belated fulfillment of the betrayed promises of the first, striving to extend the full protections of the Bill of Rights to non-white, non-male, non-elite Americans excluded by the nation's...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 358
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Library of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass's writings ever published Edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. (A companion Library of America volume, Frederick Douglass:...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request