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“lloyd a barbee”

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  • Justice for All

    Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee

    by Lloyd A Barbee ...
    Civil rights leader and legislator Lloyd A. Barbee frequently signed his correspondence with "Justice for All," a phrase that embodied his life’s work of fighting for equality and fairness. An attorney most remembered for the landmark case that desegregated Milwaukee Public Schools in 1972, Barbee stood up for justice throughout his career, from defending University of Wisconsin students who were ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • The King Years

    Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement

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  • Detroit 67

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    Fully revised and edited edition.Shortlisted for Penderyn Music Prize.Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the break-up of The Supremes and the ... Read more

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  • Uprising

    How Scott Walker Betrayed Wisconsin and Inspired a New Politics of Protest

    by John Nichols ...
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  • Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century

    The Growth of an American City

    by Iric Nathanson ...
    Today, Minneapolis is considered one of the most desirable places to live in the United States. However, like most cities, Minneapolis has its own checkered history.Iric Nathanson shines a light in dark corners of the city's past, exploring corruption that existed between the police department and city hall, brutal suppression of Depression-era unions, and reports on anti-Semitism at midcentury. ... Read more

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  • Miles Lord

    The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice

    by Roberta Walburn ...
    The life of a crusading federal judge who stood up and fought for “the little guy”This is the story of Miles Lord (1919–2016), who rose from humble beginnings on Minnesota’s Iron Range to become one of the most colorful and powerful judges in the country, described as “an unabashed Prairie populist” and “a live-wire slayer of corporate behemoths.” He cut a wide swath through history on his path to ... Read more

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  • Understanding Missouri's Constitutional Government

    by Richard Fulton, Jerry Brekke ...
    In the study of American government, analysis of state governments is often neglected in favor of concentration on the national system. Certainly in-depth knowledge of our country’s constitutional structure is critical to an understanding of American government, but this continuing inattention to the complexities of state governments has left a hole in the literature available to help us ... Read more

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  • The Nasty Women Project

    Voices from the Resistance

    by Erin Passons ...
    American Women. Their Stories. Their Resistance.The despot is perched in his tower, threatening democracy with every tweet. Vultures of big business occupy his cabinet seats, while empty-headed puppets tie the Senate to a string. With a wave of a pen, they set our rights on fire.Welcome to the new America.And who are we? We are the women of the marginalized majority. We come from every corner of ... Read more

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  • Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy

    William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy

    by Robert M. Owens ...
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  • South Dakota's Cowboy Governor Tom Berry

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    As South Dakotans endured the Great Depression and developing Dust Bowl in 1932, they elected a cowboy as their governor. Tom Berry rode in the great, iconic 1902 cattle roundup ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt. He established the successful Double X ranch next to the Badlands. Big voiced and tireless, Berry commanded the attention of all, including President Franklin Roosevelt, who broke ... Read more

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  • Harambee City

    The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism

    by Nishani Frazier ...
    BLACK POWER!It was a phrase that consumed the American imagination in the 1960s and 70s and inspired a new agenda for black freedom. Dynamic and transformational, the black power movement embodied more than media stereotypes of gun-toting, dashiki-wearing black radicals; the movement opened new paths to equality through political and economic empowerment.In Harambee City, Nishani Frazier ... Read more

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