Wherever there's a fight :
Elinson, Elaine.
Wherever there's a fight : how runaway slaves, suffragists, immigrants, strikers, and poets shaped civil liberties in California / Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi. - Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2009. - xi, 498 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-487) and index.
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 -- Breaking down barriers : the rights of people with disabilities -- The wrong side of the law : criminal justice -- Behind barbed wire : World War II removal and incarceration.
9781597141147 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1597141143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009000433
Minorities--Civil rights--History.--California
Civil rights--History.--California
California--Social conditions.
California--Ethnic relations.
F870.A1 / E45 2009
323.09794
Wherever there's a fight : how runaway slaves, suffragists, immigrants, strikers, and poets shaped civil liberties in California / Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi. - Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2009. - xi, 498 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-487) and index.
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 -- Breaking down barriers : the rights of people with disabilities -- The wrong side of the law : criminal justice -- Behind barbed wire : World War II removal and incarceration.
9781597141147 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1597141143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009000433
Minorities--Civil rights--History.--California
Civil rights--History.--California
California--Social conditions.
California--Ethnic relations.
F870.A1 / E45 2009
323.09794