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c2006., Crown Publishers Call No: 973 Oba Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Summary Note: Senator Barak Obama addresses twenty-first century politics in the United States, commenting on economic insecurities of citizens, race, religion, terrorism, threat of a pandemic, and other related issues.
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1996., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Photographic memoir of the life of Nelson Mandela, recounting the development of his political consciousness, his role in the formation of the African National Congress Youth League, his imprisonment, and the events leading to his election as president of South Africa.
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2014., Juvenile, Scholastic Inc. Call No: B MANDELA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the life, imprisonment, and leadership role of Nelson Mandela.
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-- No easy walk to freedom2014., Juvenile, Scholastic Inc. Call No: B MANDELA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of Nelson Mandela, the man who spent twenty-six years in jail for trying to end apartheid in South Africa.
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2011., Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 323.168 KAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Civil rights struggles around the worldSummary Note: Examines events that led to the African National Congress's Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws, discussing racial intolerance in South Africa, the implementation of apartheid, violent resistance, and other related topics.
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Adult Call No: 921 HARRIS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing. The daughter of immigrants, she was raised in an Oakland, California community that cared deeply about social justice; her parents -- an esteemed economist from Jamaica and an admired cancer researcher from India -- met as activists in the civil rights movement when they were graduate students at Berkeley. Growing up, Harris herself never hid her passion for justice, and when she became a prosecutor out of law school, a deputy district attorney, she quickly established herself as one of the most innovative change agents in American law enforcement. She progressed rapidly to become the elected District Attorney for San Francisco, and then the chief law enforcement officer of the state of California as a whole. Known for bringing a voice to the voiceless, she took on the big banks during the foreclosure crisis, winning a historic settlement for California's working families. Her hallmarks were applying a holistic, data-driven approach to many of California's thorniest issues, always eschewing stale "tough on crime" rhetoric as presenting a series of false choices. Neither "tough" nor "soft" but smart on crime became her mantra. Being smart means learning the truths that can make us better as a community, and supporting those truths with all our might. That has been the pole star that guided Harris to a transformational career as the top law enforcement official in California, and it is guiding her now as a transformational United States Senator, grappling with an array of complex issues that affect her state, our country, and the world, from health care and the new economy to immigration, national security, the opioid crisis, and accelerating inequality. By reckoning with the big challenges we face together, drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, Kamala Harris offers in [this book] a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. Through the arc of her own life, on into the great work of our day, she communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values. In a book rich in many home truths, not least is that a relatively small number of people work very hard to convince a great many of us that we have less in common than we actually do, but it falls to us to look past them and get on with the good work of living our common truth. When we do, our shared effort will continue to sustain us and this great nation, now and in the years to come."--Dust jacket.