Search Results: Returned 10 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 10
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Juvenile Call No: 331.13 KAM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A celebration of the civil rights movementSummary Note: Explores the history of affirmative action, legislation, programs, policies, and plans put in place to improve the education or employment opportunities for minorities and women.
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-- Brown versus Board of Educationc2005, Omnigraphics Call No: 344.73 0798 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Defining momentsSummary Note: Explores how the Brown v. Board of Education case impacted American culture and government and offers an overview of the history of segregation in America, the origins of Jim Crow laws, and the role of the NAACP, biographical profiles of key figures, and a variety of primary sources related to the case.
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-- Brown versus Board of Education2004., Rosen Pub. Group Call No: 344.73 0798 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Supreme Court cases through primary sourcesSummary Note: Examines the history of the Jim Crow laws that allowed the segregation of whites and African-Americans, discusses challenges to the laws, and looks at how things changed when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public education in 1954 in the case of "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas." .
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c2008., Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale Call No: 370 EDU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Issues on trialSummary Note: This anthology examines four cases involving issues of students' rights: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Engel v. Vitale, Tinker v. Des Moines, and Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
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-- Encyclopedia of Title nine and sports2007., Greenwood Press Call No: 306.4 MIT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Provides an introduction to Title IX, legislation designed to ensure equal opportunities and benefits for women in athletics, and features alphabetically arranged entries that look at related people, court cases, and organizations.
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2016., Bloomsbury Call No: 379.2 60973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1847, a young African American girl named Sarah Roberts was attending a school in Boston. Then one day she was told she could never come back. She didn't belong. The Otis School was for white children only. Sarah deserved an equal education, and the Roberts family fought for change. They made history. Roberts v. City of Boston was the first case challenging our legal system to outlaw segregated schools. It was the first time an African American lawyer argued in a supreme court.
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[2022]., Adolescent, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: HI-INT 796.08 CRO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A comprehensive view of gender inequality in sports, this book details the continued struggle against unequal pay, discrimination, and sexism despite the landmark law of Title IX"--Provided by the publisher.
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-- Regents of the University of California versus BakkeBy McNeese, Timc2007., Juvenile, Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 344.73 0798 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Series Title: Great Supreme Court decisions
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By McNeese, Tim2007., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 344.73 MCN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great Supreme Court decisionsSummary Note: Provides an account of the case of "Bakke versus Regents of the University of California" in which medical school applicant Allan Bakke challenged the college's program of setting aside sixteen of every one hundred medical school slots for minority students, arguing that the policy kept him from gaining admittance and violated his civil rights.
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-- United States versus Virginia2000., Enslow Publishers Call No: 347.73 LON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Landmark Supreme Court casesSummary Note: Presents information about the Supreme Court case which questioned the Virginia Military Institute's male-only policy and which refueled the debate regarding private, single-gender schools.
