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A place at the table
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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.
| Title |
A place at the table : struggles for equality in America / edited by Maria Fleming. |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press in association with the Southern Poverty Law Center |
| Creation Date |
©2001 |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-145) and index. English |
| Content |
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.505 0 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. |
| Extent |
1 online resource (151 pages) : illustrations (some colour) |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
©2001. |
| National Library system number |
997010711948405171 |
MARC RECORDS
Tags
- Civil rights United States History Juvenile literature.
- Equality United States History Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights History.
- Basic rights
- Civil liberties
- Civil rights Law and legislation
- Constitutional rights
- Fundamental rights
- Rights, Civil
- Egalitarianism
- Inequality
- Social equality
- Social inequality
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