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9780807076408 | Beacon Pr, February 2, 2016, cover price $25.95

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9780807061985 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, January 24, 2017), cover price $20.00

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9780756662066 | Dk Pub, July 19, 2010, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An essential chapter in American history from a distinguished historian”—Nell Painter), tells of the commission’s founding in 1957 by President Eisenhower, in response to burgeoning civil rights protests; how it was designed to be an independent bipartisan Federal agency—made up of six members, with no more than three from one political party, free of interference from Congress and presidents—beholden to no government body, with full subpoena power, and free to decide what it would investigate and report on...read more

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9780307263209 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 20, 2009, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This is the story of the U.

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Offers a portrait of Callie House, a former slave, Nashville seamstress, and widowed mother of five who pioneered original efforts to seek reparations for ex-slaves, and the persecution she faced from the U.S. government for her efforts.

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9781400040032 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 6, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Offers a portrait of Callie House, a former slave, Nashville seamstress, and widowed mother of five who pioneered original efforts to seek reparations for ex-slaves, and the persecution she faced from the U.

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9780307277053 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 10, 2006), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author of The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice offers an insightful portrait of Callie House, a former slave, Nashville seamstress, and widowed mother of five who pioneered original efforts to seek reparations for ex-slaves, and the persecution she faced on the part of the U.

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9781435282865 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 22, 2008), cover price $23.95
9781417797615 | Turtleback Books, October 10, 2006, cover price $26.95

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9780756727642, titled "Federal Efforts to Eradicate Employment Discriminatin in State and Local Governments: An Assessment of the U.S. Department of Justice's Employment Litigation Section" | Diane Pub Co, October 1, 2003, cover price $25.00

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The head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission explores two centuries of American case law and reveals how social attitudes toward race, class, gender, and sexuality have influenced the judicial process. 15,000 first printing.

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9780679436119 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The head of the U.

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9780375707469 | Vintage Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.95

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Updated for the 1990s, this indictment of use of the Constitution to maintain a status quo discusses injustices ranging from the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Rodney King beating

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9780713991024 | Rev upd su edition (Allen Lane, February 1, 1994), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Updated for the 1990s, this indictment of use of the Constitution to maintain a status quo discusses injustices ranging from the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Rodney King beating

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9780140232981, titled "Black Resistance White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America" | Revised edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1995), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Updated for the 1990s, this indictment of use of the Constitution to maintain a status quo discusses injustices ranging from the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Rodney King beating

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9781417703531 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 1995, cover price $30.60 | About this edition: Updated for the 1990s, this indictment of use of the Constitution to maintain a status quo discusses injustices ranging from the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Rodney King beating

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Product Description: A distinguished scholar presents a landmark historical perspective on parenthood in America. This trailblazing book suggests that behind the rhetoric of maternal responsibility are issues of power, resources, and control. "Berry's book could be a significant impetus for corporate executives and political leaders, conservatives and liberals, and mothers and fathers to support parental involvement that is gender-free...read more

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9780670837052 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Argues that businesses use childcare responsibilities to deny women equal opportunity for advancement, and suggests a national childcare policy

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9780140233605 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1994), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A distinguished scholar presents a landmark historical perspective on parenthood in America.

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Looks at the history of previous Constitutional amendments, including income tax, prohibition, women's suffrage, and child labor, and analyzes the factors that stopped the Equal Rights Amendment

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9780253365378 | Indiana Univ Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Looks at the history of previous Constitutional amendments, including income tax, prohibition, women's suffrage, and child labor, and analyzes the factors that stopped the Equal Rights Amendment

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9780253204592 | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 1988), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Looks at the history of previous Constitutional amendments, including income tax, prohibition, women's suffrage, and child labor, and analyzes the factors that stopped the Equal Rights Amendment

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