Sentences with phrase «fight for the desegregation»

Titles include Edwidge Danticat's Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation, and Duncan Tonatiuh's Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation.

«Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation,» written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.

A «compelling story told with impeccable care» is how the starred Kirkus review describes Duncan Tonatiuh's Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation.

Bearden made the collage and designed the set for his friend's 1957 same - titled off - Broadway play, a drama about a South Carolina pastor who fought for desegregation.

Not exact matches

In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club!)

Football was a backdrop for the desegregation battles of the 1960s, from the fight over James Meredith's enrollment at Ole Miss in 1962 to the integration of Alabama's football team (and Arkansas», and Texas») a few years later.

His first book, The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2016), examines school district politics across the twentieth century, with attention to desegregation, funding, professionalization, and curriculum.

There's no doubt many of these battles were brutal; in antebellum America, Sarah Roberts and her family fought for school desegregation; during WWII, civil rights activist Fred Korematsu resisted Japanese internment - camp imprisonment; and in 1967, Mildred and Richard Loving overturned a Virginia statute prohibiting interracial marriage.