Foot Soldiers For Democracy

Author : Horace Huntley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252076680
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foot Soldiers for Democracy written by Horace Huntley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firsthand accounts from the Civil Rights Movement's frontlines

Author : Tim Bale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351400223
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the 21st Century written by Tim Bale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible, rigorously researched and highly revealing book lifts the lid on political party membership. It represents the first in-depth study of six of the UK's biggest parties – Labour, the Conservatives, the Scottish National Party, the Liberal Democrats, UK Independence Party and the Greens – carried out simultaneously, thereby providing invaluable new insights into members' social characteristics, attitudes, activities and campaigning, reasons for joining and leaving, and views on how their parties should be run and who should represent them. In short, at a time of great pressure on, and change across parties, this book helps us discover not only what members want out of their parties but what parties want out of their members. This text is essential reading for those interested in political parties, party membership, elections and campaigning, representation, and political participation, be they scholars and students of British and comparative politics, or politicians, journalists and party members – in short, anyone who cares about the future of representative democracy.

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Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Americans Defending Democracy written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the personal narratives of 31 American soldiers during the First World War.

Author : Thomas Armstrong
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0757391710
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Freedom Rider written by Thomas Armstrong and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the segregated Deep South when lynching and Klansmen and Jim Crow laws ruled, there stood a line of foot soldiers ready to sacrifice their lives for the right to vote, to enter rooms marked "White Only," and to live with simple dignity. They were called Freedom Riders and Thomas M. Armstrong was one of them. This is his story as well as a look ahead at the work still to be done. June, 1961. Thomas M. Armstrong, determined to challenge segregated interstate bus travel in Mississippi, courageously walks into a Trailways bus station waiting room in Jackson. He is promptly arrested for his part in a strategic plan to gain national attention. The crime? Daring to share breathing space marked "Whites Only." Being of African-American descent in the Mississippi Deep South was literally a crime if you overstepped legal or even unspoken cultural bounds in 1961. The consequences of defying entrenched societal codes could result in brutal beatings, displacement, even murder with no recourse for justice in a corrupt political machine, thick with the grease of racial bias. The Freedom Rides were carefully orchestrated and included both black-and-white patriots devoted to the cause of de-segregation. Autobiography of a Freedom Rider details the strategies employed behind the scenes that resulted in a national spectacle of violence so stunning in Alabama and Mississippi that Robert Kennedy called in Federal marshals. Armstrong's burning need to create social change for his fellow black citizens provides the backdrop of this richly woven memoir that traces back to his great-grandparents as freed slaves, examines the history of the Civil Rights Movement, the devastating personal repercussions Armstrong endured for being a champion of those rights, the sweet taste of progressive advancement in the past 50 years, and a look ahead at the work still to be done. Hundreds were arrested for their part in the Freedom Rides, Thomas M. Armstrong amongst them. But it is the authors' quest to give homage to "the true heroes of the civil rights movement . . . the everyday black Southerners who confronted the laws of segregation under which they lived . . . the tens of thousands of us who took a chance with our lives when we decided that no longer would we accept the legacy of exclusion that had robbed our ancestors of hope and faith in a just society."

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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Americans Defending Democracy written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Ancer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780620946940
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mensches in the Trenches: Jewish Foot Soldiers in the Anti written by Jonathan Ancer and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Keiley-Listermann
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinn Féin Women written by Margaret Keiley-Listermann and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The role of women in Sinn Fein has been varied, often in a supportive capacity simply below the surface, but Sinn Fein women have not been just behind the scenes or in the shadows. Republican women may have been foot soldiers in the movement, but they have also been generals leading the command for equality.

Author : I. B. Holley
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313231214
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General John M. Palmer, Citizen Soldiers, and the Army of a Democracy written by I. B. Holley and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1982-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chad L. Williams
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781469609850
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torchbearers of Democracy written by Chad L. Williams and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought and labored in the global conflict, these words carried life or death meaning. Relating stories bridging the war and postwar years, spanning the streets of Chicago and the streets of Harlem, from the battlefields of the American South to the battlefields of the Western Front, Chad L. Williams reveals the central role of African American soldiers in World War I and how they, along with race activists and ordinary citizens alike, committed to fighting for democracy at home and beyond. Using a diverse range of sources, Williams connects the history of African American soldiers and veterans to issues such as the obligations of citizenship, combat and labor, diaspora and internationalism, homecoming and racial violence, "New Negro" militancy, and African American historical memories of the war. Democracy may have been distant from the everyday lives of African Americans at the dawn of the war, but it nevertheless remained a powerful ideal that sparked the hopes of black people throughout the country for societal change. Torchbearers of Democracy reclaims the legacy of black soldiers and establishes the World War I era as a defining moment in the history of African Americans and peoples of African descent more broadly.

Author : Nancy MacLean
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101980982
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Chains written by Nancy MacLean and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's "Most Valuable Book" “[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic “This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this means for America's future, you should be.”—NPR An explosive exposé of the right’s relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, stop action on climate change, and alter the Constitution. Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. But billionaires did not launch this movement; a white intellectual in the embattled Jim Crow South did. Democracy in Chains names its true architect—the Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan—and dissects the operation he and his colleagues designed over six decades to alter every branch of government to disempower the majority. In a brilliant and engrossing narrative, Nancy MacLean shows how Buchanan forged his ideas about government in a last gasp attempt to preserve the white elite’s power in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. In response to the widening of American democracy, he developed a brilliant, if diabolical, plan to undermine the ability of the majority to use its numbers to level the playing field between the rich and powerful and the rest of us. Corporate donors and their right-wing foundations were only too eager to support Buchanan’s work in teaching others how to divide America into “makers” and “takers.” And when a multibillionaire on a messianic mission to rewrite the social contract of the modern world, Charles Koch, discovered Buchanan, he created a vast, relentless, and multi-armed machine to carry out Buchanan’s strategy. Without Buchanan's ideas and Koch's money, the libertarian right would not have succeeded in its stealth takeover of the Republican Party as a delivery mechanism. Now, with Mike Pence as Vice President, the cause has a longtime loyalist in the White House, not to mention a phalanx of Republicans in the House, the Senate, a majority of state governments, and the courts, all carrying out the plan. That plan includes harsher laws to undermine unions, privatizing everything from schools to health care and Social Security, and keeping as many of us as possible from voting. Based on ten years of unique research, Democracy in Chains tells a chilling story of right-wing academics and big money run amok. This revelatory work of scholarship is also a call to arms to protect the achievements of twentieth-century American self-government.