| Description |
1 online resource (xliii, 519 pages) : illustrations |
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Social issues primary sources collection |
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Gale virtual reference library |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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| Contents |
Advisors and Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the Set -- Introduction -- About the Entry -- Using Primary Sources -- Chronology -- Development of Human Rights -- Introduction to Development of Human Rights -- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen -- Bill of Rights -- On the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of the Deaf and Dumb -- Man's Rights, or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams -- The Duties of American Citizenship -- The Communist Manifesto -- The People's Legal Right to Freedom -- Niagara's Declaration of Principles -- Four Freedoms -- Punishment and Prevention of War Crimes -- Creation of UN Commission on Human Rights -- UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights -- Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War -- Equal Rights Amendment -- Beauty Will Save the World -- The Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe -- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment -- Israel's Knesset Debates the Adoption of a Human Rights Charter -- Responding to Complex Humanitarian Crises and Massive Abuses of Human Rights -- Fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- The Menace That Wasn't -- Slavery and Genocide -- Introduction to Slavery and Genocide -- Handbill Offering a Reward for a Runaway Slave -- Proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women -- Copper Slave Tags -- Appellants, vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans, Captured in the Schooner Amistad -- Am I Not a Man and a Brother? -- Country, Conscience, and the Anti-Slavery Cause -- A British View on America's Slave Trade -- Slaveholding Not Sinful -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- Thirteenth Amendment -- League of Nations Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery -- Fate Did Not Let Me Go -- Cambodia's Killing Fields -- Letter to the Former Comfort Women -- Pacifique Mukeshimana -- U.S. Congress Terms Situation in Darfur "Genocide" -- Colombia: Displaced and Discarded -- Milosevic Case Information Sheet -- Mass Grave Near Samawa in the Muthanna Province in Iraq -- PEN Protests Charges Against Turkish Author Orhan Pamuk -- Nashi ("Ours") -- Imprisonment -- Introduction to Imprisonment -- Hanging A Woman -- Executive Order 9066 -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -- Human Rights Abuses in Shahist Iran -- The Visit -- Nigeria: On the Anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa's Execution, Human Rights Organizations Call for Reform -- U.N. Report on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment -- Conditions in Primam Prison, Jeddah -- We, On Death Row -- Open Letter to Deng Xiaoping -- Expressing the Sense of the House of Representatives Regarding Several Individuals Who Are Being Held as Prisoners of Conscience by the Chinese Government for Their Involvement in Efforts to End the Chinese Occupation of Tibet -- Coming Out of Solitary Confinement, Schlusselburg Fortress Prison, Russia, 1886 -- A Passion for Solitude -- By Right of Memory -- Chile: Torture Testimonies to Be Concealed for Fifty Years -- Last Secrets of Nazi Terror--an Underground Labor Camp -- Question of Detainees in the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo -- Camp Delta Four in the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba -- Health and Housing -- Introduction to Health and Housing -- The Sanitary and Moral Condition of New York City -- Fair Housing Act -- Roe v. Wade -- China's "One-Child Family" Policy -- Woman Cries with Her Dying Child -- No Electricity, Running Water, and Almost No Medical Supplies -- Indian Government's Comments on Asia Watch-Physicians for Human Rights Report "The Crackdown in Kashmir" -- World Medical Association Resolution on the Prohibition of Access of Women to Health Care and the Prohibition of Practice of Female Doctors in Afghanistan -- Apology for Study Done in Tuskegee -- Aid for Africa Development -- Water: Two Billion People Are Dying for It -- Act for the Relief of the Parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo -- An Act to Provide Compensation to the Persons Sterilized Through the State's Eugenic Sterilization -- Labor and Working Conditions -- Introduction to Labor and Working Conditions -- Labor Strikes and Their Effects on Society: -- Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 -- Legal Recognition of Industrial Women -- Conscientious Objector -- National Labor Relations Act -- Equal Pay Act of 1963 -- American Federation of Labor on President Johnson and Human Rights -- Solidarity's First Congress -- Americans with Disabilities Act -- Indian Child Labor -- How Ireland Hid Its Own Dirty Laundry -- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families -- Honduran Sweatshops -- Judge Rejects Lawsuit Challenging Army "Stop Loss" Policy -- Undocumented Migrant Farm Workers -- Civil and Political Rights -- Introduction to Civil and Political Rights -- Dred Scott v. Sanford -- Women's Disabilities Removal Bill -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- Lynch Law in America -- The Birth of a Nation -- The Causes of the Chicago Race Riot -- The Social Equality of Whites and Blacks -- American Women Enfranchised -- Man Buying Tickets at Black Entrance to Theater -- Executive Order 9981 -- Rosa Parks Is Fingerprinted by Police -- Newton Girl Jailed in Mississippi with Eight Freedom Fighters -- "I Have a Dream" -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- City of Memphis volume Martin Luther King, Jr -- International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid -- Mourners Surround the Coffin of Black Leader Steve Biko -- Nelson Mandela's Second Court Statement -- Tiananmen Square Protest -- Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 5 and 6, 1989 -- Tiananmen Square Declaration of Human Rights -- Appeal for Action to Stop Repression and Trials in South Africa -- Afghan Women Approach a Voting Station -- Borders, Sovereignty and Culture -- Introduction to Borders, Sovereignty and Culture -- Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) -- Dawes Severalty Act 1887 -- To Every Englishman in India -- Dalai Lama, Holy Ruler of the Land of Tibet -- UN Resolution 242 -- Cast Out Caste -- Rigoberta Menchú Tum's Nobel Lecture -- Human Rights Abuses of Jews in Arab Countries After the Six-Day War -- Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities -- Millicent -- A Pictorial Guide to Hell -- Honor Killings -- Refugees and Asylum: Global Figures for 2002 -- Global Internet Freedom Act -- Chirac Calls for Ban on Headscarves -- How Has 9/11 Changed America's Approach to Human Rights? -- National Identity Card -- International Religious Freedom Report for 2005 -- Googling the Great Firewall -- Education and Childhood -- Introduction to Education and Childhood -- No Church Need Apply -- Girl in a Bean Field -- Brown volume Board of Education -- Title IX, Educational Amendments of 1972 -- Education for all Handicapped Children Act -- Plyler volume Doe -- Young Children Weave Carpets at a Kathmandu Factory -- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty -- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children -- Attacks Beset Afghan Girls' Schools -- Sources Consulted -- Index |
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Advisors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Development of human rights -- Slavery and genocide -- Imprisonment -- Health and housing -- Labor and working conditions -- Civil and political rights -- Borders, sovereignty and culture -- Education and childhood -- Sources consulted -- Index |
| Summary |
These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Original: xliii, 519 pages : illustrations ; cm |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Civil rights -- Sources
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Human rights -- History -- Sources.
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Civil rights.
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Human rights.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Sources.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lerner, Adrienne Wilmoth.
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Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth.
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Lerner, K. Lee.
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Thomson Gale (Firm)
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| LC no. |
2006020044 |
| ISBN |
1414412622 |
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9781414412627 |
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