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This book provides a variety of original source documents, from first-hand accounts to media responses to legislative texts, regarding the Chicano movement of the 1960s through 1970s. It examines the key events, individuals, and developments of La Causa: Chicanos uniting to free themselves of liberation from exploitation, oppression, and racism.
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This book covers all aspects of 1920s political, artistic, popular, and economic culture in America, examining cultural and social advancement as well as various forms of oppression in the United States, including the rise of tabloid journalism and mass media, the banning and reinstatement of alcohol, and the advent of voting rights for women and Native Americans. It includes topical and biographical entries, primary documents, sample essay questions,...
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This book covers the themes, events, people, legislation, economics, and policy of the Great Depression and New Deal in America. It provides primary documents accompanied by introductions that place them in their proper historical context; encyclopedic entries, period chronology, and primary documents contextually aligned; and a Hiistorical Thinking Skills section based on AP U.S. History course learning objectives.
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This encyclopedia documents the Black Power Movement by its cultural representation and promotion of self-determination and self-defense and showcases the its influence on American Black communities from 1965 to the mid-1970s. It provides an understanding of Black Power's important role in the turbulence, social change, and politics of the 1960s and 1970s in America and how the concepts of the movement continue to influence contemporary Black politics,...
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This book examines the American presidency through the prism of race and race relations in America, revealing a long and complicated relationship with the African American community. It evaluates each presidents' policies, cabinet appointments, and handling of race matters. Discusses each American president's life and career as well as his policies that affected the African American community. Includes presidents' personal writings, memoirs, autobiographies,...
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