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  • You Can’t Eat Freedom

    Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement

    by Greta de Jong ...
    Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization. Political empowerment for black southerners coincided with the transformation of southern agriculture and the displacement of thousands of former sharecroppers from the ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • A Different Day

    African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970

    by Greta de Jong ...
    Examining African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, Greta de Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. Using evidence drawn from oral histories and a wide range of other ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

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  • The Working Poor

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  • Eureka: The story of Australia's most famous rebellion

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    On 3 December 1854 a bloody battle between gold miners, soldiers and police raged for fifteen minutes at the Eureka Lead in Ballarat. But this brief conflict, which had been brewing for years, would have momentous consequences overturning the accepted social order and bringing democracy to Victoria. EUREKA introduces you to the people and events that shaped this key moment in Australias history. ... Read more

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  • The Outskirts of Hope

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  • No Pity

    People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

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