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In Elusive Equality, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford place Norfolk, Virginia, at the center of the South's school desegregation debates, tracing the crucial role that Norfolk’s African Americans played in efforts to equalize and integrate the city’s schools. The authors relate how local activists participated in the historic teacher-pay-parity cases of the 1930s and 1940s, how they fought against the school closures and "Massive Resistance" of the 1950s, and how they challenged continuing patterns of discrimination by insisting on crosstown busing in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite the advances made by local activists, however, Littlejohn and Ford argue that the vaunted "urban adv...
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When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system rather than inte
Hope and History is both a memoir and a call-to-action for the renewal of faith in democracy and America. US Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel presents his most important public speeches and writings, compiled and presented over eight decades of adventure and public service, woven together with anecdotes of his colorful life as a second-generation American, a soldier, a lawyer, a political activist, and a diplomat. He touches upon themes that resonate as much today as they did when he first encountered them: the impact of heroes and mentors; the tragedy of the Vietnam War; the problems of racism and desegregation in America; tackling the crisis in America's prisons; America and the Holocau...
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Book 1 is part of a 4-book series of Children's Books; that feature two little mouses [sic] from Moratuzzi, Italy; who become great little detectives, solving mysteries from their home base, where they live in the town's bakery. Originally written for children; this 4-book series seems to have captured the imaginations of adults as well. Book One is also available on Audible.Com as an audio-book. The audio-book contains a six song soundtrack of original music; which was written and composed by Tom Rae who lives in Dunoon, Scotland. The music soundtrack; compliment the professional narration by Phil Williams.Enjoy!
For fans of the Watson & Willie adventure books, here's a chance to own the complete "set of four books" as a single volume.