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Wherever there's a fight : how runaway slaves, suffragists, immigrants, strikers, and poets shaped civil liberties in California / Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2009.Description: xi, 498 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781597141147 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1597141143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.09794 22
LOC classification:
  • F870.A1 E45 2009
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 -- 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.
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Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 323.09794 ELI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 500822
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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.

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