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      By Seidman, David
       2001., Pre-adolescent, Rosen Call No: 323.1 SEI   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Series Title: Individual rights and civic responsibilitySummary Note: Explains the concept of civil rights as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and describes the legal struggles of several groups concerning those rights, including African-Americans, women, Native Americans, immigrants, prisoners, and gays and lesbians. Also includes the Bill of Rights, a time line, a glossary, and a list of further resources.
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      -- White women and the politics of white supremacy.
      By McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie
       [2020]., Oxford University Press Call No: HI-INT 320.56 MCR    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: "They are often seen in photos of crowds in the mid-century South--white women shooting down blacks with looks of pure hatred. Yet it is the male white supremacists who have been the focus of the literature on white resistance to Civil Rights. This groundbreaking first book recovers the daily workers who upheld the system of segregation and Jim Crow for so long--white women. Every day in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed a myriad of duties that upheld white over black. These politics, like a well-tended garden, required careful planning, daily observing, constant weeding, fertilizing, and periodic poisoning. They held essay contests, decided on the racial identity of their neighbors, canvassed communities for votes, inculcated racist sentiments in their children, fought for segregation in their schools, and wrote column after column publicizing threats to their Jim Crow world. Without white women, white supremacist politics could not have shaped local, regional, and national politics the way it did, and the long civil rights movement would not have been so long. This book is organized around four key figures -- Nell Battle Lewis, Florence Sillers Ogden, Mary Dawson Cain, and Cornelia Dabney Tucker -- whose political work, publications, and private correspondence offer a window onto the broad and massive network of women across the South and the nation who populate this story. Placing white women's political work from the 1920s to the 1970s at the center, this book demonstrates the diverse ways white women sustained twentieth century campaigns for white supremacist politics, continuing well beyond federal legislation outlawing segregation, and draws attention to the role of women in grassroots politics of the 20th century."--Provided by publisher.
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       Call No: 303.48    Click here for ebook Username onondagahs Password library Summary Note: American politics have become increasingly polarized over the past several decades. As the two primary parties have moved further apart, so have those whose beliefs fall on the extremes of the political spectrum. This book features articles that examine the ideas and actions of political extremists from across the spectrum, ranging from single-issue groups like Second Amendment and anti-abortion radicals, to larger movements such as anti-government activists and the growing presence of white nationalists. With the reporting, photography, and media literacy questions and terms collected here, readers will discover that while these groups may operate on the fringes of American politics, the echoes of their positions resonate into the mainstream.
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      -- Black Panther Party's promise to the people
      By Magoon, Kekla
       2021., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS NF MAG   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: "In this comprehensive . . . history of the Black Panther Party, [the author] introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members--mostly women--and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens"-- Provided by publisher.
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      -- Black Panther Party's promise to the people
      By Magoon, Kekla
       2021., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS NF MAG   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: "In this comprehensive . . . history of the Black Panther Party, [the author] introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members--mostly women--and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens"-- Provided by publisher.
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      -- Black Panther Party's promise to the people
      By Magoon, Kekla
       2021., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: 323.1196 MAGOON   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: "In this comprehensive . . . history of the Black Panther Party, [the author] introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members--mostly women--and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens"-- Provided by publisher.
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      By Harris, Duchess  Cornell, Kari A.
       [2018]., Adolescent, Essential Press, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, Inc. Call No: 342.73 RTV    Availability:2 of 2     At Location(s) Summary Note: This volume examines the Right to Vote through examples and with historical context.
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      By Harris, Duchess  Zuchora-Walske, Christine
       [2018]., Adolescent, Essential Library Call No: 323.3 HAR    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Although women today can run for political office, they continue to be underrepresented in the US government. This title takes an inside look at the history of women in politics, the current issues surrounding this topic, and steps people can take to eliminate sexist practices.
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      By Meacham, Jon
       [2018]., Random House Call No: HI-INT 973 MEA   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: "We have been here before. In this timely and revealing book, ... author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. With clarity and purpose, Meacham explores contentious periods and how presidents and citizens came together to defeat the forces of anger, intolerance, and extremism. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called 'the better angels of our nature' have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women's rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson's crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in our national life has been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear--a struggle that continues even now. While the American story has not always--or even often--been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, "The good news is that we have come through such darkness before"--as, time and again, Lincoln's better angels have found a way to prevail."--Dust jacket.
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      -- Perry Wallace and the collision of race and sports in the South
      By Maraniss, Andrew
       [2014]., Vanderbilt University Press Call No: SPORTS NF MAR    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: " ... the ... story of Perry Wallace, a ... student and talented athlete who became the first African-American basketball player in the SEC at Vanderbilt University during the tumultuous late 1960s ... Places Wallace's struggles and ultimate success into the larger contexts of civil rights and race relations in the South"--Provided by publisher.