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A Real Coup with the Sports Fans
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Jesse Berrett
Published: 15 April 2018
... Athletic Association NCAA activism anti war anti war politics and activism protests Vietnam Klein Herb Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam Moynihan Daniel Patrick Ziegler Ron Butterfield Alexander Chapin Dwight Ivy League Mobilization Against the War National Unity Week Orange Bowl 1971...
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The Moment of Decision: The Empire Zinc Strike, Grassroots Feminism, and Mexican American Liberation, 1950–1953
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James J. Lorence
Published: 15 May 2013
..., which encouraged an immediate and vigorous response to the company's refusal to negotiate. Once the strike began, local committees were created with responsibility for various functions, including relief, negotiations, publicity, police relations, and fund-raising. As the community mobilized, it became...
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Published: 15 August 2016
...This chapter seeks to identify the sources of Arab political mobilizations in Canada from the 1920s through the late 1970s, with particular attention to the influence exercised by states and political controversies emanating from the region of origin. The history of political mobilization...
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Reconfiguring Documentation: Immigration, Activism, and Practices of Visibility
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Rebecca M. Schreiber
Published: 15 June 2017
... themselves from detention and deportation, as well as to create counter-documents, which challenged the state’s ability to determine the parameters of political inclusion and to mobilize other undocumented migrants. These activists’ circulation of counter-documents through digital and social...
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Did They Jump? Labor Organizations, Mutual-Aid Societies, and Ethnic Businesses
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Louis Corsino
Published: 01 November 2014
...For the greater part of the last century, Chicago Heights Italians found themselves on the wrong end of the cultural, political, and economic hierarchy in the city. This position made it extremely difficult for Italians to make recognizable gains in social mobility for themselves or their families...