Wherever there's a fight : how runaway slaves, suffragists, immigrants, strikers, and poets shaped civil liberties in California / Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi.
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
Heyday Books,
[2009], ©2009.
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| Physical Description: | 500 pages: |
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Contents:
- Staking our claim : the law in early California
- In a strange land : the rights of immigrants
- An injury to all : the rights of workers
- Under color of law : the fight for racial equality
- Holding up half the sky : the rights of women
- The right not to remain silent : dissent
- Mightier than the sword : the right to free expression
- Keeping the faith : the right to religious freedom
- That dare not speak its name : the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people
- To the best of our ability : the rights of people with disabilities
- The wrong side of the law : criminal justice
- Behind barbed wire : World War II removal and incarceration.