Civil Rights Struggles Around the World

1) Equal rights is our minimum demand: the women's rights movement in Iran, 2005

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2011

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"We want to live, we do not want to face persecution for expressing our political opinion; as women we don't want to walk on the street with the constant horror that we could be intimidated for showing an inch of hair." --Narges Kalhor, a young Iranian filmmaker, October 2009 On June 12, 2005, hundreds of women gathered outside Tehran University in Tehran, Iran. These women were protesting an issue that Iranian women have battled for more than one...

2) Gay power!: the Stonewall Riots and the gay rights movement, 1969

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Kuhn, Betsy

Earliest Publication Date

2011

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"Come out for freedom! Come out now! Power to the people! Gay power to gay people! Come out of the closet before the door is nailed shut!" -Come Out! magazine, November 14, 1969 On the night of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. They intended to shut the bar down-part of the mayor's order to clean up illegal businesses. The cops didn't expect much trouble, especially not from the gay men and women dancing and...

3) Open the jail doors--we want to enter: the Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws, South Africa, 1952

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Kallen, Stuart A., 1955-

Earliest Publication Date

2010

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This riveting story of the long struggle against apartheid in South Africa explores the reasons why thousands were willing to die in the fighting for civil rights and how their courageous efforts led to the day in 1994 when Nelson Mandela stood before thousands of free South Africans as the nation's first black president.

4) Sitting for equal service: lunch counter sit-ins, United States, 1960s

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Herr, Melody

Earliest Publication Date

2010

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Examines events that led to lunch counter sit-ins in the United States during the 1960s and their influence, discussing segregation, the Freedom Rides, the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and other related topics.

5) The force born of truth: Mohandas Gandhi and the Salt March, India, 1930

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Kuhn, Betsy

Earliest Publication Date

2010

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This book follows Mohandas Gandhi's development of his nonviolent protest theories from his days as a young lawyer in South Africa to his later leadership in India. In a defining civil rights gesture Gandhi defied Great Britain's salt monopoly in India when he led a march to a beach and picked up a handful of salt.

6) Today the world is watching you ; the Little Rock Nine and the fight for school integration, 1957

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Magoon, Kekla

Earliest Publication Date

2011

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On September 4, 1957, nine African American teenagers made their way toward Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They didn't make it very far. Armed soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard blocked most of them at the edge of campus. The three students who did make it onto campus faced an angry mob of white citizens who spit at them and shouted ugly racial slurs.

7) We stand as one: the International Ladies Garment Workers' Strike, New York, 1909

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Edge, Laura Bufano, 1953-

Earliest Publication Date

2011

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Chronicles the events surrounding the 1909 International Ladies Garment Workers Union strike, in which twenty thousand workers from five hundred shirtwaist factories went on strike to demand better hours, higher wages, and safer working conditions.

8) Who will shout if not us?: student activists and the Tiananmen Square protest, China, 1989

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Kerns, Ann

Earliest Publication Date

2010

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In the spring of 1989, university students in Beijing grabbed world headlines with a courageous stand against decades of Communist authoritarian rule in China. Thousands and then millions of students and workers from all over China gathered on the city's Tiananmen Square to support demands for democracy, clean government, and increased personal freedoms.

9) You are now on Indian land: The American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island, California, 1969

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Goldstein, Margaret J

Earliest Publication Date

2011

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On the night of November 20, 1969, ninety-two Native Americans sailed silently across the San Francisco Bay toward the island of Alcatraz. They intended to reclaim the land for Indian people and to establish a community on Alcatraz. By the time the sun rose, they had settled onto the island and made their intentions clear: a large sign read, You Are Now on Indian Land. When the U.S. government discovered the occupation of Alcatraz, the U.S. Coast...