Still Struggling for Equality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Still Struggling for Equality write by Plummer A. Jones. This book was released on 2004-12-30. Still Struggling for Equality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A companion volume to Immigrants and the American Experience (1999), this book covers American public library services to immigrants from 1876 to 2003. As such it provides an excellent text on public library services to diverse groups and multiculturalism in public libraries. It presents a detailed exposition of immigration law, accompanied by an analysis of laws affecting libraries. These legislative activities are placed in the context of library practice and the library profession, treating fully developments within ALA and the government agencies tasked with the funding and oversight of libraries.
Rights Gone Wrong
Rights Gone Wrong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rights Gone Wrong write by Richard Thompson Ford. This book was released on 2011-10-25. Rights Gone Wrong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt discrimination and prejudice. But how successful are they at combating the whole spectrum of social injustice-including conditions that aren't directly caused by bigotry? How do they stand up to segregation, for instance-a legacy of racism, but not the direct result of ongoing discrimination? It's tempting to believe that civil rights litigation can combat these social ills as efficiently as it has fought blatant discrimination. In Rights Gone Wrong, Richard Thompson Ford, author of the New York Times Notable Book The Race Card, argues that this is seldom the case. Civil rights do too much and not enough: opportunists use them to get a competitive edge in schools and job markets, while special-interest groups use them to demand special privileges. Extremists on both the left and the right have hijacked civil rights for personal advantage. Worst of all, their theatrics have drawn attention away from more serious social injustices. Ford, a professor of law at Stanford University, shows us the many ways in which civil rights can go terribly wrong. He examines newsworthy lawsuits with shrewdness and humor, proving that the distinction between civil rights and personal entitlements is often anything but clear. Finally, he reveals how many of today's social injustices actually can't be remedied by civil rights law, and demands more creative and nuanced solutions. In order to live up to the legacy of the civil rights movement, we must renew our commitment to civil rights, and move beyond them.
A Place at the Table
A Place at the Table - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Place at the Table write by Maria Fleming. This book was released on 2001. A Place at the Table available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Struggle for Black Equality
The Struggle for Black Equality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Struggle for Black Equality write by Harvard Sitkoff. This book was released on 2008-09-30. The Struggle for Black Equality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition highlights the continuing significance of the movement for black equality and justice.
An Example for All the Land
An Example for All the Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Example for All the Land write by Kate Masur. This book was released on 2010-10-04. An Example for All the Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative story of how black men's right to vote transformed local affairs, and how, in short order, city reformers made that right virtually meaningless. Bringing the question of equality to the forefront of Reconstruction scholarship, this widely praised study explores how concerns about public and private space, civilization, and dependency informed the period's debate over rights and citizenship.
