| Description |
1 online resource (xli, 485 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Social issues primary sources collection |
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Social issues primary sources collection.
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| Contents |
Advisors and Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the Set -- Introduction -- About the Entry -- Using Primary Sources -- Chronology -- Protesters and Protest Rights -- Introduction to Protesters and Protest Rights -- U.S. Constitution, Amendment I -- Civil Disobedience -- Direct Action -- Buddhist Monk Sets Himself on Fire -- Burning the American Flag in Protest -- Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's Claims Television News Is Biased -- Jimi Hendrix Playing at Woodstock -- Two Judges Decline Drug Cases, Protesting Sentencing Rules -- Your Rights to Demonstrate and Protest -- Pie in the Eye -- What Makes an Activist -- Bush Zones Go National -- Civil and Human Rights -- Introduction to Civil and Human Rights -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- The Jim Crow Car -- The Suffragette Dilemma in World War One -- Suffragette Lady Constance Lytton Goes on Hunger Strike -- Highlights from the First Session of the League of Nations -- Letters from Halle-Salle Prison -- Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Mob Rule Cannot Be Allowed to Override the Decisions of Our Courts -- Negroes Plan Protest -- Civil Rights Workers Sing "We Shall Overcome" -- Letter From a Birmingham Jail -- The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door -- March from Selma -- We Shall Overcome -- Have Sanitation Workers a Future -- Tennessee Halted in School Inquiry -- Olympic Athletes on Podium -- Godfather Wins Oscar as Best Film -- Britain's 1981 Urban Riots -- Afghan Women Tear off Burqas -- Boycott Beijing 2008 -- Los Angeles 1992 Riots -- Marching with a Message -- Relatives of the "Disappeared" Protest -- Two Prosecutors at Guantanamo Quit in Protest -- War and Peace -- Introduction to War and Peace -- Women Carrying Peace Banner -- No-Conscription League Manifesto -- The Bonus Army -- Norwegian Anti-Nazi Protest -- The Atlantic Charter -- Promoting the Maintenance of International Peace and Security in Southeast Asia -- Counterprotesters Heckle Anti-War Demonstrators -- Fortunate Son -- Draft Card Burning Protest -- The Great Silent Majority -- Kent State Shootings -- Proclamation 4483 -- NATO London Declaration -- Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended -- No Military Recruiters in Public Schools, Scholarships for Education and Job Training -- Praise Mingles with Anger as Hundreds Turn Out for Rally to Support Troops -- Cindy Sheehan Leads Protest Against the Iraq War -- Civil Liberties and Social Issues -- Introduction to Civil Liberties and Social Issues -- Sedition Act of 1798 -- Temperance Protest -- Sedition Act of 1918 -- Anti-Prohibition Protest -- A Declaration of Conscience -- Telegram from Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman -- Homeless Child on a Protest March -- Sorbonne Revolt -- No More Miss America -- Harvard and Beyond: The University Under Siege -- New York Penal Laws 125.00-125.6 -- Coat Hangers Used in Abortion Protest -- Gallaudet Protesters Claim Victory -- Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 -- The Sit-In Begins -- USA PATRIOT Act, Section 215 -- USA PATRIOT Act sec. 213 -- Resolution to Protest the Eroding of Civil Liberties under the USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law 107-56) and Related Federal Orders Since 9/11/01 -- Presbyterian Founder of Gray Panthers Documented in "Maggie Growls" -- Protesting U.S.-Mexico Border Policy -- Pentagon Will Review Database on U.S. Citizens -- Activists, Opponents Clash at Immigration Rally -- Santa Cruz Journal: A Protest, a Spy Program, and a Campus in an Uproar -- Finding a Place for 9/11 in American History -- Nepal Blocks Protest Rally with Arrests and Curfew -- Moslems Protest Danish Cartoons -- Politics, Policy, and Political Dissent -- Introduction to Politics, Policy, and Political Dissent -- The Sugar Act of 1764 -- A Chartist Appeal to Lay Down Arms -- Haymarket Riots -- Winston Churchill on Liberalism and Socialism -- One Aspect of Bolshevist Liberty -- Lenine: The Man and His Beliefs -- Hitler's Propaganda Machine -- First Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- A Statement by Frank E. Gannett, Publisher, Gannett Newspapers -- American Indian Movement Siege of Wounded Knee -- Iranian People Vote for an Islamic Republic -- Nation Building and Singapore's People's Association -- The Party That Isn't -- Fall of the Berlin Wall -- Tiananmen Square Protests of June 1989 -- An Urgent Appeal From Our Anguished Hearts -- Anti-Soviet President Gorbachev Caricatured Protest Sign During Soviet Armed Crackdown on Independence-Bent Baltic SSR -- Britain's Labour Party Debate -- Greenpeace Activists Protest GOP Policy Agenda -- Berlin Police Use Tear Gas to Quell Anti-Nazi Protest -- Expatriates Urge Fellow Iranians to Boycott Presidential Election -- Labor, Trade, and Globalization -- Introduction to Labor, Trade, and Globalization -- Great Free Trade Demonstration at Liverpool -- Decrees of the Provisional Government Relating to the Workingmen -- Which Side Are You On -- Single Women of Boston Picket Relief Headquarters -- Deportee -- Rip in the Silk Industry -- Address by César Chávez, President United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO -- Casey Jones-The Union Scab -- Grand Jury Indictment of the Chicago Seven -- Bill Gates Hit with Pie -- Anti-WTO Protests Escalate -- May Day in the Soviet Union -- Solidarity's Message -- Globalization and the Maquiladoras -- What Charles and Evan Did for Spring Break -- On the Air Traffic Controllers Strike -- Protesters Smash the Window of a McDonald's -- Anti-FTAA Protestors Clash with Police -- Globalization: Environmental and Health Practices of American Companies Abroad -- Indonesian Village Chiefs Protest Pulp Mill -- Communities Oppose Wal-Mart -- Sovereignty -- Introduction to Sovereignty -- The Boston Tea Party -- Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii -- Dandi March -- The Zionist People's Council Proclaim the Establishment of the State of Israel -- State Department Telegram to Diplomats and Consulates Regarding the Recognition of Israel -- Prague Spring -- IRA Hunger Strikes -- Jewish Settlers Protest Israeli Withdrawal from Gaza -- Health, Environment, and Animal Rights -- Introduction to Health, Environment, and Animal Rights -- The First Earth Day -- Animal Rights Raiders Destroy Years of Work -- AIDS Die-in Protest -- Greenpeace Protests French Nuclear Tests in the Mururoa Atoll -- Kyoto Protocol -- A Bitter Pill For the World's Poor -- PETA's "We'd Rather Go Naked" Campaign -- The AIDS-Drug Warrior -- Commission Recommendations on Coexistence of Genetically Modified Crops with Conventional and Organic Farming -- Robbing the Poor to Pay the Rich -- Neighbors of Burned Homes Pained by Suburban Sprawl -- World AIDS Day: Human Rights Watch Calls for Increased Support -- Sources Consulted -- Index |
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Advisors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Protesters and protest rights -- Civil and human rights -- War and peace -- Civil liberties and social issues -- Politics, policy, and political dissent -- Labor, trade, and globalization -- Sovereignty -- Health, environment, and animal rights -- Sources consulted -- Index |
| Summary |
A collection of primary source documents that focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic |
| Notes |
Title from Web page (viewed Dec. 22, 2006) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Original: xli, 485 pages : illustrations ; cm |
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Print version record |
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Social history -- Sources
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Social problems -- Sources
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World politics -- Sources
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Social history.
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Social problems.
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World politics.
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| Genre/Form |
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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| ISBN |
1414412630 |
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9781414412634 |
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