... a melange of songs, skits, stories, and poems recorded by celebrated musicians, actors, and singers, Free to Be … You and Me dramatically changed the way in which parents and children thought about gender roles and social equality. Conceived by actress and children's welfare activist Marlo...

... ratcheted up the struggle for equality as a key part of the general campaign by postal unions for workplace reforms. Many jobs had opened up in the post office in 1965 that for the first time made black recruitment a priority, thanks in large part to the gains of the black freedom movement...

.... By 1866, it became clear that conservatives saw their every concession as tactical and temporary until they got the federal government off their back. Far from serving as a way-station on the road to full equality, the Black Codes were the absolute most that southern states were prepared to concede...

... the prison population and putting into practice the ideals of the PCC without establishing any hierarchical relation. The tension between political action and the practice of equality thus gives rise to an incessant assembly of often competing political theories that speak not simply to the goals of the PCC...

... A” Piatt Galt House Louisville Parker Theodore Seward William Sumner Charles Child Lydia Maria “How a Kentucky Girl Emancipated Her Slaves” Child Republican Party Antislavery Universal education Public schools Fiction Equality Enlightenment Harriet Beecher Stowe Black Convention Movement...

... of Racial Equality (CORE) chapter led by Julius Hobson, the Free D.C. campaign run by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader Marion Barry, welfare rights activism by Etta Horn and other low-income black women, and the Black United Front marked a strategic shift in the local movement toward...

... nor Jewish, that is, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and all the other followers of “new” forms of religion. Finally, it considers how the concepts of democracy, political participation, and equality owed their particular character to the revivalist tradition of evangelical Protestantism. Jews Religion...

...This section of the book contains a declaration made on July 4, 1776, which talks about unalienable rights of man: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. declaration liberty equality pursuit of happiness It says, * “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people...

...This chapter focuses on the life of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, more famously known as the “Siamese twins,” in the United States at a time of turmoil, much of it revolving around slavery and ideas of racial equality. It first considers the controversy that embroiled the twins...

... it faced attacks from conservative evangelicals from the 1970s to 1980s. Biblical feminism opened opportunities for women to claim the right to obey God's call in sharing their testimonies and preaching. The feminist movement helped in improving many aspects of women's equality and in transforming many...

... White citizens’ councils Branton Wiley A Due John Lewis John registrars denying voting rights violence for attempting to register Albany Movement GA Congress of Racial Equality CORE Dunbar Leslie W Greenwood movement MS National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP National...

...This chapter explores the short-lived Trinidad Hindu Mahasabha, which endeavored to articulate a Hindu identity that transcended local politics and concerns of "orthodox" and "reform," in order to unify all Hindus in Trinidad and allow them to take their place, on an equal footing, along...

... Hindu Sanatana Dharma conversion religious equality I am a modern Hindu. — Seepersad Naipaul, 1933 The goddess Kali was going to kill the Trinidad Guardian’s reporter. Only blood could sate Her thirst for revenge for his slight. What was a modern Hindu to do? A Trinidad...

...Chapter Two examines a handful of pivotal Supreme Court cases brought against school desegregation at the turn of the century and the first few decades of the 20th century. The Cumming v. Georgia case in 1899 indicated a demand for equality on the basis of taxpayer status...

... Hodges Luther North Carolina A&T African liberation movement decolonization in Africa Jones Mack Malawi Nyasaland sit in movement protests Gibbs Warmouth T Robinson Marvin Brown H Rap Congress of Racial Equality CORE Hedgemon J J McCain James Dennis David White Frank Reed Adolph...

... members did not treat her or other African Americans as equals. In the late 1940s, Terrell finally felt optimistic when Christian ministers began to engage in the Civil Rights Movement. The interracial Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) began bringing blacks and whites...

...The introduction establishes the argument that women’s integration into the US military after World War II began a process of redefining equality. Additionally, this use of womanpower during the Cold War created the foundation for women’s service today. The introduction situates the argument...

... to be removed. Rank limitations established in the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act in 1948 were shortening the length of women’s careers and preventing women from holding certain military jobs. Into the 1970s, servicewomen and their allies continued to fight for equality. However, the idea of equality...

...The conclusion revisits the overarching argument about how the definition of equality changed for servicewomen over the course of the early Cold War. The conclusion analyzes the legacies of women’s Cold War service, focusing on the myriad ways that limitations on women’s service continue to affect...

... Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This chapter positions resistance to racial justice and educational equality as inherent to college conservatism in an exploration of the 1970 police massacre at Jackson State University (then College). Black Panther Party Black student movement Carmichael Stokely King...