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  • Dream of Justice

    The Story of Keyes v. Denver Public Schools

    de Pat Pascoe ...
    Series series Timberline Books
    A Dream of Justice is Colorado state senator and former teacher Pat Pascoe’s firsthand account of the decades-long fight to desegregate Denver’s public schools. Drawing on oral histories and interviews with members of the legal community, parents, and students, as well as extensive institutional records, Pascoe offers a compelling social history of Keyes v. School District No. 1 (Denver).Pascoe ... Leer más

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  • Helen Ring Robinson

    Colorado Senator and Suffragist

    de Pat Pascoe ...
    Series series Timberline Books
    No strangers to frontier conditions, the family used their expertise as miners, surveyors, land speculators, and lawyers to erect cabins, stake their claims, and survey and lay plans for a new town. From these experiences they prepared a set of laws -- in ... Leer más

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  • Supreme Inequality

    The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America

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    **“With Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen has built, brick by brick, an airtight case against the Supreme Court of the last half-century...Cohen’s book is a closing statement in the case against an institution tasked with protecting the vulnerable, which has emboldened the rich and powerful instead.” —Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, SlateA revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the ... Leer más

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  • Because of Sex

    One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work

    "Thomas writes with precision and grace (and a lovely lack of jargon) about ten cases that established the full reach and scope of Title VII." ― The Boston GlobeBest known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate "because of sex." But that simple ... Leer más

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  • The Engagement

    America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium"Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.” —John Williams, The New York TimesOn June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were ... Leer más

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  • The Affirmative Action Puzzle

    A Comprehensive and Honest Exploration of One of the Most Controversial Legal and Social Issues in US History

    A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous timesFrom an acclaimed legal historian, a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, ... Leer más

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  • America in Black and White

    One Nation, Indivisible

    In a book destined to become a classic, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom present important new information about the positive changes that have been achieved and the measurable improvement in the lives of the majority of African-Americans. Supporting their conclusions with statistics on education, earnings, and housing, they argue that the perception of serious racial divisions in this country is ... Leer más

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  • The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators

    American Society at the End of the Twentieth Century

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  • Women and Elective Office

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    This edition of Women and Elective Office offers the latest research on women as candidates and officeholders. It provides a comprehensive look at at the history and status of women in elective office, their prospects for the future, and why women in elected office matter to American democracy. It features all-new essays and up-to-the-minute research by leading experts in the field, including the ... Leer más

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  • Rich People's Movements

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    On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one percent. But why? Rich people have plenty of political influence. Why would they need to publicly demonstrate for lower taxes-and why would anyone who wasn't rich join the protest on their behalf? Isaac William Martin shows that such protests long predate the Tea ... Leer más

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  • Divided We Fail

    The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation

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