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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 507 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites....
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief-a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave hardship...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
187 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this accessible "keep-it-real" guide, Marley explores activism, social justice, volunteerism, equity and inclusion, and using social media for good. Drawing from her experience, Marley shows kids how they can galvanize their strengths to make positive changes in their communities, while getting support from parents, teachers, and friends to turn dreams into reality.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Readers learn about the #WomensMarch, movement from the campaign for women's suffrage, to legislation safeguarding reproductive rights and protecting them from sexual harassment, to the 2017 and 2018 Women's Marches and the continued fight for gender equality and social justice.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Formats
Description
Analyzes scandals in high-profile institutions, from Wall Street and the Catholic Church to Major League Baseball, while evaluating how an elite American meritocracy rose throughout the past half-century before succumbing to corruption and failure.
15) King's dream
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
viii, 295 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"I have a dream"-no words are more widely recognized, or more often repeated, than those called out from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1963. King's speech, elegantly structured and commanding in tone, has become shorthand not only for his own life but for the entire civil rights movement. In this new exploration of the "I Have a Dream" speech, Eric J. Sundquist places it in the history of American debates about racial...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xxxi, 414 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines how the wealthy classes have contributed to growing inequality in society and explains how the quest to increase wealth has hindered the country's economic growth as well as its efforts to solve its most pressing economic problems.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A sharp examination of the troubled state of retirement in America shares sobering insights into how the real estate crash and limited social security are preventing retirement and inducing widespread poverty in aging Baby Boomers.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Bowling Alone offers [an] ... examination of the American Dream in crisis--how and why opportunities for upward mobility are diminishing, jeopardizing the prospects of an ever larger segment of Americans"--
"What has happened to the Land of Opportunity? The promise of the American Dream is that anyone, regardless of his or her origins, can have a fair start in life. If we work hard, we can get a good education and achieve...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xviii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people."--Page 4 of cover.
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