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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"On point historical photographs combined with strong narration bring the saga of the Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins in the early 1960s to life. Readers will learn about the four brave college students who started it all, as well as the many who came after. These events changed the world. The photographer who took the photographs shown in this book is now in his 90s, but he agreed to an exclusive interview for this book."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1800s, racial tensions between white and Chinese Americans were high. The US government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. This act restricted immigration from China. 'The Chinese Exclusion Act and Its Relevance Today' explores this act's effects and its influence on modern immigration laws"--Provided by publisher.
4989) Birthright: a war story
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the recent movement across the United States to limit access to abortion services and other rights formerly held by pregnant women. Featured cases: a woman in Nebraska, who, following a diagnosis 22 weeks into her term, was forced to carry an unviable pregnancy to term; a woman in Alabama who is facing criminal charges for taking half a valium during her pregnancy.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
2008 edition.
Language
English
Description
Provides both sides of the divisive argument surrounding abortion. Also includes information on the number and types of abortions performed in the United States, abortion clinics, teen pregnancy and abortion, views of abortion from around the world, religious thoughts on abortion, and legal rulings pertaining to abortion.
4992) Young Frances
Author
Series
Young Frances volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"After insomniac law clerk Frances Scarland is recruited by her firm's most notorious senior partner, she seems poised for serious advancement--whether she wants it or not. But when her impulsive best friend Vickie decides to move to the opposite coast for an acting role, Frances' confusing existence starts to implode... An intimate study of work chaos and close friendships over time"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free black child in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was bound and gagged, snatched from a local farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Two weeks later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester County farm. Because slave catchers could take fugitive slaves and free blacks across state lines to be sold, the border country of Pennsylvania/Maryland had become a dangerous place for most black people....
4994) The Federalist papers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. Constitution was approved by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787. It was to become law only if it was ratified by nine of the thirteen states. New York was a key state, but it contained strong forces opposing the Constitution. A series of eighty-five letters appeared in New York City newspapers between October, 1787 and August, 1788 urging support for the Constitution. These letters remain the first and most authoritative...
4995) Michael Clayton
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
4996) The greater good
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The film re-frames the emotionally charged issue and offers, for the first time, the opportunity for a rational and scientific discussion on how to create a safer and more effective vaccine program.
4998) Equal rights for all
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the Bill of Rights, Quakers and abolition, the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Susan B. Anthony, and the Emancipation Proclamation.
4999) Poisoned waters
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Examines the perilous conditions of the nation's waterways and the effect on the overall ecosystem.
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