The power of protest : a visual history of the moments that changed the world
Griffing, Brenda2018
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- back cover.
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Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, 2018
Collation:
204 pages : ill., (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Contents:
The Fight For Peace And Freedom -- Gandhi's Salt March -- Democratic National Convention Riots -- Moratorium Movement to End the War in Vietnam -- Kent State Riots -- Muharram Protests -- Singing Revolution -- Berlin Wall Protests -- Tiananmen Square -- Color Revolutions -- Egyptian Revolution of 2011 -- How to Get Involved -- The Fight For Women's Rights -- Women's Suffrage -- South African Women's March -- Second-Wave Feminism -- Roe v. Wade -- Working Women of the '80s -- Women's March on Washington -- The Silence Breakers -- How to Get Involved -- The Fight For Race Rights -- U.S. Civil War -- Abolition of Slavery -- Separate but Equal: 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Civil Rights Movement, 1960s -- March on Washington, 1963 -- Purple Rain Protest in Cape Town -- Race Relations in the '70s, '80s, '90s -- Million Man March -- Black Lives Matter -- How to Get Involved -- The Fight For Gay Rights -- Stonewall and the Movement that Followed --Contents note continued: AIDS Crisis and Gay Rights Movements of the '80s and '90s -- Marriage Equality -- Transgender Rights -- How to Get Involved -- The Fight For Workers' Rights -- Labor Protests in Early U.S. History -- Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions -- Knights of Labor -- Bread and Roses Strike -- Repression and Depression Strike Wave -- United Automobile Workers and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Forty-Hour Week and the Congress of Industrial Organizations -- Economic and Social Justice -- Strike Wave of 1946 -- March on Washington and the Equal Pay Act of 1963 -- International Labor Organization -- Lech Walesa and the Solidarity Movement -- Child Labor Laws -- How to Get Involved -- The Fight For Modern Causes No Censorship of Science -- Wealth and Occupy Wall Street -- Free Speech -- Education -- Death with Dignity -- Prison Systems -- Gun Control.
ISBN:
9781492660347
Dewey class:
303.484303.48
Language:
English
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BRN:
344050
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | 303.48 GRI | Available |