The Inspiration Series: Fighting the Good Fight.

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Democracy rising : South Carolina and the fight for Black equality since 1865 / by Lau, Peter F., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Segregation, self-determination, and the making of the NAACP -- Riot, reaction, and the lineaments of reinvention -- Radicalism, liberal reform, and the remaking of the NAACP during the New Deal -- Remapping the struggle for civil rights -- Popular fronts -- Cold war civil rights.…”


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Moral panics, sex panics : fear and the fight over sexual rights /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : moral panics, sexual rights, and cultural anger / Gilbert Herdt -- The religious right and the reshaping of sexual policy : reproductive rights and sexuality education during the Bush years / Diane di Mauro and Carole Joffe -- Black sexuality, indigenous moral panics, and respectability : from Bill Cosby to the down low / Cathy J. …”


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Eight tales for eight nights : stories for Chanukah / by Schram, Peninnah

“…8 tales for 8 nights…”


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Fighting Back 1957-1962

Table of Contents: “…(3:26) -- "Warriors Don't Cry" (4:22) -- Graduation Day (3:44) -- Schools Close Across the South (1:52) -- James Meredith (3:17) -- Admitted into the University of Mississippi (3:27) -- Testing States Rights (3:09) -- Constitutional Test (4:12) -- Mississippi Riots (4:35) -- Symbol of Hope (3:21) -- Credits: Fighting Back 1957-1962: Eyes on the Prize-America's Civil Rights Movement 1954 - 1985 (2:48) -- Hampton's Insights (4:31) -- Morality Play (2:49) -- Out of the South (2:53) -- Assassinations (0:52) -- Truth and Heroes (0:49) -- Transformation (1:06) -- Surveillance (0:42) -- Making History (0:43) -- Legacy (1:22)…”
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Fighting Back 1957-1962 /

Table of Contents: “…(3:26) -- "Warriors Don't Cry" (4:22) -- Graduation Day (3:44) -- Schools Close Across the South (1:52) -- James Meredith (3:17) -- Admitted into the University of Mississippi (3:27) -- Testing States Rights (3:09) -- Constitutional Test (4:12) -- Mississippi Riots (4:35) -- Symbol of Hope (3:21) -- Credits: Fighting Back 1957-1962: Eyes on the Prize-America's Civil Rights Movement 1954 - 1985 (2:48) -- Hampton's Insights (4:31) -- Morality Play (2:49) -- Out of the South (2:53) -- Assassinations (0:52) -- Truth and Heroes (0:49) -- Transformation (1:06) -- Surveillance (0:42) -- Making History (0:43) -- Legacy (1:22)…”
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Opening the Doors : the Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa / by Hollars, B. J.

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Interview with Keegan Taylor and Rondel Benjamin

Subjects: “…Stick fighting Trinidad and Tobago.…”
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Fighting Terrorism. by Krauzová, Tereza

Table of Contents: “…Land of freedom or land of surveillance? Right to privacy in the U.S. after 9/11 -- Privacy and surveillance -- What is the right to privacy -- Rights of the government vs. rights of the governed -- Surveillance -- Historical development of surveillance legislation -- Legal context of the current surveillance issues -- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- United States Patriot Act -- Section 218 -- PRISM and upstream acquisition of Internet communications -- Bulk collection of telephony metadata program…”
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Fighting Terrorism by Krauzová, Tereza

Table of Contents: “…Land of freedom or land of surveillance? Right to privacy in the U.S. after 9/11 -- Privacy and surveillance -- What is the right to privacy -- Rights of the government vs. rights of the governed -- Surveillance -- Historical development of surveillance legislation -- Legal context of the current surveillance issues -- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- United States Patriot Act -- Section 218 -- PRISM and upstream acquisition of Internet communications -- Bulk collection of telephony metadata program…”
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Food Fights How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates /

Table of Contents: “…Ludington -- What does it mean to eat right? Nutrition, science, and society / Charlotte Biltekoff -- Regulating food. …”
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Fight back! : feminist resistance to male violence /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction by Barbara Smith ; Battered and raped: the physical/sexual abuse of women / Janet Howard ; Attack from the right / Pamela Johnston ; The future of the battered women's movement / Susan Schechter ; Battered women's refuges: feminist cooperative vs. social service institutions / Lois Ahrens ; Drifting from the mainstream: a chronicle of early anti-rape organizing / Nikki Craft ; To respectability and back: a ten year view of the anti-rape movement / Anne Pride ; Starting a safe homes network for battered women / Mary Haviland ; The park slope safe home project services ; Key points for other communities: the safe homes model ; Doing community outreach to third world women / Renae Scott - Heat wave / Melanie Kaye ; Of similar thread / Wendy Stevens ; Fighting back with deadly force: women who kill in self-defense / Susan Madden ; The night is a monster / Wendy Stevens ; Letters from prison / Juanita Thomas ; Women and violence / Melanie Kaye ; Rita Silk-Nauni ; Interview with Barbara Hart - A story about women who won't be battered and raped / Kelly Hilton ; Karate and the feminist resistance movement / Nadia Telsey ; Some facts on self-defense / Nadia Telsey ; Do it yourself-self-defense / Pat James - Pièce de resistance / Mariana Romo-Carmona ; feminist law-challenging actions / Pam McAllister ; Setting a "bad" example / Marcia Womongold ; We will not be silent victims / Shell Wildwomoon ; Pitocin: a synthetic form of oxytocin / Michelle Harrison M.D. ; Nadine Pagan explains her outlaw career to her sister, Jane Morningstar, Judith Katz (Quickbeam) ; Tips for enhancing an offensive billboard / Anonymous ; Charges dropped in the billboard case / Linda Gryczan, Olga Nada, Rose Mesec ; From pornography: a license to kill / Marcia Womongold ; Kitty Genovese women's project ; The incredible case of the stack o'prints mutilations / Nikki Craft ; In defense of disobedience / Nikki Craft ; Stack o'wheats: an exercise in issues / D.A. …”


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Fighting for justice : the history and origins of adversary trial / by Hostettler, John

Table of Contents: “…-- No counsel for prisoners -- Treason Trials Act : the birth of adversary trial -- Rights of the individual -- Sir William Garrow -- Garrow at the Old Bailey I -- Garrow at the Old Bailey II -- Rules of criminal evidence -- Counsel finally address the jury.…”
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Fighting for foreigners immigration and its impact on Japanese democracy / by Shipper, Apichai W. (Apichai Wongsod), 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Associative activism -- Controlling foreigners : Japan's foreign worker policy -- Long-distance nationalism : political activities of immigrant ethnic associations -- Democracy of illegals : organizing support for illegal foreigners -- Local partners : local governments and immigrant rights NGOs -- Foreigners in the public sphere : contesting prevalent social meanings -- Conclusion: Foreigners and democracy.…”
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Fighting for foreigners : immigration and its impact on Japanese democracy / by Shipper, Apichai W. (Apichai Wongsod), 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Associative activism -- Controlling foreigners : Japan's foreign worker policy -- Long-distance nationalism : political activities of immigrant ethnic associations -- Democracy of illegals : organizing support for illegal foreigners -- Local partners : local governments and immigrant rights NGOs -- Foreigners in the public sphere : contesting prevalent social meanings -- Conclusion: Foreigners and democracy.…”
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Fighting words polemics and social change in literary naturalism / by Wells, Ira, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Naturalism: a polemical introduction -- An education -- The polemical nature of naturalism in America -- Against the grain: ecology, environmentalism, and Frank Norris's The octopus -- Crimes of art and nature: an American tragedy and the problem of abortion -- "What I killed for, I am": domestic terror in Richard Wright's America -- Epilogue.…”
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Fighting words : polemics and social change in literary naturalism / by Wells, Ira, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Naturalism : a polemical introduction -- An education -- The polemical nature of naturalism in America -- Against the grain : ecology, environmentalism, and Frank Norris's The octopus -- Crimes of art and nature : an American tragedy and the problem of abortion -- "What I killed for, I am" : domestic terror in Richard Wright's America -- Epilogue.…”
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Fight the power! : the Spike Lee reader /

Table of Contents: “…The new race man: doing the right thing by any means necessary -- Athletic iconography in Spike Lee's early feature films / Kerr Houston -- Spike's blues: re-imagining blues ideology for the cinema / Mikal J. …”


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Fighting with Gandhi / by Juergensmeyer, Mark

Table of Contents: “…-- How do you know when you're right? -- Violence : the breakdown of a fight -- What to do with a recalcitrant opponent -- The weapon : the goal itself -- The power of noncooperation -- Fighting a very big fight -- How do you know when you've won? …”


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Fighting Hoosiers : Indiana in two World Wars /

Table of Contents: “…McFaddin -- "A fair chance to do my part of the work" : black women, war work, and rights claims at the Kingsbury Ordinance Plant / Katherine Turk.…”
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