I Am America

I Am America
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 54
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ISBN-10 : 0439431794
ISBN-13 : 9780439431798
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis I Am America by : Charles R. Smith (Jr.)

Photographs and rhyming text describe children growing up in America today.

Antarctic Law and Politics

Antarctic Law and Politics
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015005086767
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Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Antarctic Law and Politics by : F. M. Auburn

A review of the Antarctic Treaty regime, and its increasing inability to deal with the urgent issues of vast resources (oil, gas, krill, fresh water) and sovereignty disputes.

District of Columbia Code. 1967 Ed

District of Columbia Code. 1967 Ed
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 692
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435028255768
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis District of Columbia Code. 1967 Ed by : Washington (D.C.)

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1356
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044116492273
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 067003083X
ISBN-13 : 9780670030835
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis Joseph Smith by : Robert Vincent Remini

Chronicles the life of the founder of the Mormon Church from his birth in 1805, through the visions he started receiving at age fourteen, to his assassination in 1844.

Race, Labor, and Civil Rights

Race, Labor, and Civil Rights
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9780807134818
ISBN-13 : 0807134813
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Race, Labor, and Civil Rights by : Robert Samuel Smith

In 1966, thirteen black employees of the Duke Power Company's Dan River Plant in Draper, North Carolina, filed a lawsuit against the company challenging its requirement of a high school diploma or a passing grade on an intelligence test for internal transfer or promotion. In the groundbreaking decision Griggs v. Duke Power (1971), the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, finding such employment practices violated Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when they disparately affected minorities. In doing so, the court delivered a significant anti-employment discrimination verdict. Legal scholars rank Griggs v. Duke Power on par with Brown v. Board of Education (1954) in terms of its impact on eradicating race discrimination from American institutions. In Race, Labor, and Civil Rights, Robert Samuel Smith offers the first full-length historical examination of this important case and its connection to civil rights activism during the second half of the 1960s. Smith explores all aspects of Griggs, highlighting the sustained energy of the grassroots civil rights community and the critical importance of courtroom activism. Smith shows that after years of nonviolent, direct action protests, African Americans remained vigilant in the 1960s, heading back to the courts to reinvigorate the civil rights acts in an effort to remove the lingering institutional bias left from decades of overt racism. He asserts that alongside the more boisterous expressions of black radicalism of the late sixties, foot soldiers and local leaders of the civil rights community -- many of whom were working-class black southerners -- mustered ongoing legal efforts to mold Title 7 into meaningful law. Smith also highlights the persistent judicial activism of the NAACP-Legal Defense and Education Fund and the ascension of the second generation of civil rights attorneys. By exploring the virtually untold story of Griggs v. Duke Power, Smith's enlightening study connects the case and the campaign for equal employment opportunity to the broader civil rights movement and reveals the civil rights community's continued spirit of legal activism well into the 1970s.