Tato historička zkoumá historii volebního práva a rasových a genderových práv ve Spojených státech. Její práce se zaměřuje na klíčové momenty, kdy marginalizované skupiny, zejména černošské ženy, bojovaly za občanská práva a rovnost. Poukazuje na to, jak jejich úsilí formovalo americkou společnost a politiku.
Jones recounts how African American women defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, she excavates the lives and work of black women - Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more - who were the vanguard of women's rights
The purpose of this book, first published in 1996, is to explore the dimensions of the changing workforce, and examines the issues faced by non-native workers and their employers. This study aims to explore issues such as culture shock and cultural adaptation in the healthcare, fast food and hotel industries in Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. This title will be of interest to students of business studies and sociology.
Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.