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Describes how the author made history in Baton Rouge by becoming the first African American to be elected to judgeships at three different levels of the court system. Judge Freddie Pitcher’s story of rising from ‘the bench to the bar to the bench’ is informative and inspiring.
American Jewish leaders, many of German extraction, created the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in 1901 in order to disperse unemployed Jewish immigrants from New York City to smaller Jewish communities throughout the United States. The IRO was...
One woman's courage to battle stigma and injustice for women and the mentally ill
What does it mean to hold power when you were never meant to? Drawing on her time as Colombia's first Afro-Colombian woman minister, Paula Moreno explores visibility, leadership and the personal cost of being "the first".
Transforming Rights draws on Yalden's extensive experience in rights work to provide a personal assessment of how issues of human rights and language rights have evolved over the past forty years, both within Canada and internationally.
Frances Freeborn Pauley, a white woman who grew up in the segregated South, has devoted most of her ninety-four years to the battle against discrimination and prejudice. A champion of civil rights and racial justice and an advocate for the poor and...
A lifelong crusader for society's powerless, Senator Paul Douglas was one of the most influential liberals of the 20th century. This work covers his life, offering a complete portrait of the man who brought civil rights issues to the forefront of American politics.
With a novelist’s flair, noted free speech authorities, Ronald K. L. Collins and David Skover tell the true story of an American maverick who refused to play it safe and who in the process gave staying power to freedom of the press in America.
From her childhood in Puli Khumri, Afghanistan, to her courageous advocacy on the global stage today, Judge Marzia Babakarkhail takes readers on a heart-pounding journey through the stark realities of life under Taliban rule.
In this exemplary work of scholarly synthesis the author traces the course of events from the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. He also provides... Læs mere