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    Turmoil and Transition in Boston
    Turmoil and Transition in Boston ab 30.49 € als epub eBook: A Political Memoir from the Busing Era. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,
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    A Step Too Slow , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
    It was 1971, and a new high school had just been regally constructed to provide education and refuge to the children of a small southern town’s rich and powerful people. But Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement had put a serious dent in those plans. Integration was now the law of the land, along with "forced busing". Few if any could be called happy campers on the first day of school. Black teachers and students had been uprooted from their community and made to travel into unfamiliar and hostile territory, while white teachers and students simply felt invaded. Even the most optimistic among them had serious concerns about how the coming events would unfold. But never in a million years would anyone have dreamed that the first week of school would become a “week of hell!” But the actions of a third-string football player do more than all of the politicians and educators put together to ease the pain of coming together. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pat Patterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/prmg/000010/bk_prmg_000010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Armstrong and Charlie , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 455min
    Charlie isn't looking forward to sixth grade. If he starts sixth grade, chances are he'll finish it. And when he does, he'll grow older than the brother he recently lost. Armstrong isn't looking forward to sixth grade, either. When his parents sign him up for Opportunity Busing to a white school in the Hollywood Hills, all he wants to know is "what time in the morning will my alarm clock have the opportunity to ring?" When these two land at the same desk, it's the Rules Boy next to the Rebel, a boy who lost a brother elbow to elbow with a boy who longs for one. From September to June, arms will wrestle, fists will fly, and bottles will spin. There'll be Ho Hos spiked with hot sauce, sleepovers, boy talk about girls, and a little guidance from the stars. Set in Los Angeles in the 1970s, Armstrong and Charlie is the hilarious, heartwarming tale of two boys from opposite worlds, different, yet the same. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ruffin Prentiss, III, Christopher Gebauer, Karen Chilton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009990/bk_reco_009990_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 703min
    Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women.Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed myriad duties that upheld white over black: censoring textbooks, denying marriage certificates, deciding on the racial identity of their neighbors, celebrating school choice, canvassing communities for votes, and lobbying elected officials. They instilled beliefs in racial hierarchies in their children, built national networks, and experimented with a color-blind political discourse.With white women at the center of the story, the rise of postwar conservatism looks very different than the male-dominated narratives of the resistance to Civil Rights. Women like Nell Battle Lewis, Florence Sillers Ogden, Mary Dawson Cain, and Cornelia Dabney Tucker publicized threats to their Jim Crow world through political organizing, private correspondence, and journalism. Their efforts began before World War II and the Brown decision and persisted past the 1964 Civil Rights Act and anti-busing protests. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirsten Potter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/012173/bk_tant_012173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 218min
    National Book Award, Young People's Literature, 2009 On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama. Shouting "It's my constitutional right!" as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she'd had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child. But instead of being celebrated, as Rosa Parks would be when she took the same stand nine months later, Claudette found herself shunned by many of her classmates and dismissed as an unfit role model by the black leaders of Montgomery. Undaunted, she put her life in danger a year later when she dared to challenge segregation yet again - as one of four plaintiffs in the landmark busing case Browder v. Gayle. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of a major, yet little-known, civil rights figure whose story provides a fresh perspective on the Montgomery bus protest of 1955 - 56. Historic figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks play important roles, but center stage belongs to the brave, bookish girl whose two acts of courage were to affect the course of American history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Channie Waites. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001949/bk_brll_001949_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Education issues
    Education issues ab 30.49 € als Taschenbuch: Corporal punishment School uniform Education reform School shooting Affirmative action Academic elitism School voucher Academic dishonesty Desegregation busing in the United States School violence Grade inflation. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    NPOV disputes from October 2008
    NPOV disputes from October 2008 ab 41.99 € als Taschenbuch: Art rock Slaughterhouse Deregulation Totalitarian democracy Jamul California Vojvodina South African Wars Puerto Vallarta White phosphorus Desegregation busing in the United States Rosicrucian Fellowship Ballot access. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,
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    The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min
    Sometimes a moment can change history. This one took 1/250th of a second. The photograph strikes us with visceral force, even years after the instant it captured. A white man, rage written on his face, lunges to spear a black man who is being held by another white. The assailant’s weapon is the American flag. Boston, April 5, 1976: As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Stanley Forman hurried to City Hall to photograph that day’s protest, arriving just in time to snap the image that his editor would title "The Soiling of Old Glory". The photo made headlines across the U.S. and won Forman his second Pulitzer Prize. It shocked Boston, and America: Racial strife had not only not ended with the 1960s, it was alive and well in the cradle of liberty. Louis P. Masur’s evocative "biography of a photograph" unpacks this arresting image in a tour de force of historical writing. He examines the power of photography and the meaning of the flag, asking why this one picture had so much impact. Most poignantly, Masur recreates the moment and its aftermath, drawing on extensive interviews with Forman and the figures in the photo to reveal not just how the incident happened, but how it changed the lives of the men in it. The Soiling of Old Glory, like the photograph it is named for, offers a dramatic window onto the turbulence of the 1970s and race relations in America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Young. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009631/bk_adbl_009631_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 887min
    Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America.   If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: You might say during Barack Obama’s presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or the “Reagan Revolution” and the the rise of the New Right.   For leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, it all starts in 1974. In that one year, the nation was rocked by one major event after another: The Watergate crisis and the departure of President Richard Nixon, the first and only US president to resign; the winding down of the Vietnam War and rising doubts about America’s military might; the fallout from the OPEC oil embargo that paralyzed America with the greatest energy crisis in its history; and the desegregation busing riots in South Boston that showed a horrified nation that our efforts to end institutional racism were failing.   In the years that followed, the story of our own lifetimes would be written. Longstanding historical fault lines over income inequality, racial division, and a revolution in gender roles and sexual norms would deepen and fuel a polarized political landscape. In Fault Lines, Kruse and Zelizer reveal how the divisions of the present day began almost five decades ago and how they were widened thanks to profound changes in our political system as well as a fracturing media landscape that was repeatedly transformed with the rise of cable TV, the internet, and social media.   How did the US become so divided? Fault Lines offers a richly told, wide-angle history view toward an answer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051664/bk_adbl_051664_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy: Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 567min
    Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another battle of the Civil War has been won. The rest is up to us and I'm very glad. What a wonderful world of possibilities are unfolded for the children!" Here, in a concise, compelling narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. Patterson takes listeners through the dramatic case and its 50-year aftermath. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African-Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits; to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision. Others include segregationist politicians; Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon; and controversial Supreme Court justices, such as William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Most Americans still see Brown as a triumph - but was it? Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. Could the Court - or President Eisenhower - have done more to ensure compliance with Brown? Did the decision touch off the modern civil rights movement? How useful are court-ordered busing and affirmative action against racial segregation? To what extent has racial mixing affected the academic achievement of black children? Where, indeed, do we go from here to realize the expectations of Marshall, Ellison, and others in 1954? The Pivotal Moments in American History series seeks to unite the old and the new history, combining the insights and techniques of recent historiography with the power of traditional narrative. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Anderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002814/bk_adbl_002814_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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