The Freedom to Read
Author : American Library Association
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
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Author : American Library Association
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1528785878
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 1985
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780521132138
Author : Margaret B. Kwoka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108482740
The Freedom of Information Act is vital for democratic accountability. Understanding who uses it is key to re-centering its oversight purposes.
Author : Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838913253
Collecting several key documents and policy statements, this supplement to the ninth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual traces a history of ALA’s commitment to fighting censorship. An introductory essay by Judith Krug and Candace Morgan, updated by OIF Director Barbara Jones, sketches out an overview of ALA policy on intellectual freedom. An important resource, this volume includes documents which discuss such foundational issues as The Library Bill of RightsProtecting the freedom to readALA’s Code of EthicsHow to respond to challenges and concerns about library resourcesMinors and internet activityMeeting rooms, bulletin boards, and exhibitsCopyrightPrivacy, including the retention of library usage records
Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393925036
Edited by Eric Foner and coordinated with each chapter of the text, this companion to Give Me Liberty! includes primary-source documents touching on the theme of American freedom. The freedom theme is explored in the words of well-known historical figures and ordinary Americans. Each document is accompanied by an introductory headnote and study questions.
Author : Rebecca J. Scott
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0674068408
Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family's quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States. Freed during the Haitian Revolution, Rosalie and her daughter Elisabeth fled to Cuba in 1803. A few years later, Elisabeth departed for New Orleans, where she married a carpenter, Jacques Tinchant. In the 1830s, with tension rising against free persons of color, they left for France. Subsequent generations of Tinchants fought in the Union Army, argued for equal rights at Louisiana's state constitutional convention, and created a transatlantic tobacco network that turned their Creole past into a commercial asset. Yet the fragility of freedom and security became clear when, a century later, Rosalie's great-great-granddaughter Marie-José was arrested by Nazi forces occupying Belgium. Freedom Papers follows the Tinchants as each generation tries to use the power and legitimacy of documents to help secure freedom and respect. The strategies they used to overcome the constraints of slavery, war, and colonialism suggest the contours of the lives of people of color across the Atlantic world during this turbulent epoch.
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Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
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Author : Loki Mulholland
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629721774
Biography of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland follows her from her childhood in 1950s Virginia through her high school and college years, when she joined the Civil Rights Movement, attending demonstrations and sit-ins. She also participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961 and was arrested and imprisoned. Her life has been spent standing up for human rights.
Author : Stephen F. Rohde
Publisher : Webster's New World
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : History
ISBN :
Presents the complete texts of key historic documents with commentary on events surrounding their creation and an overview of United States constitutional law.