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Book Annual Report   Houston Public Library

Download or read book Annual Report Houston Public Library written by Houston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

Download or read book Annual Report written by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and published by . This book was released on with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Public Printer

Download or read book Annual Report of the Public Printer written by United States. Government Printing Office and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

Download or read book Annual Report written by National Endowment for the Humanities and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report   National Endowment for the Humanities

Download or read book Annual Report National Endowment for the Humanities written by National Endowment for the Humanities and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes appendices.

Book Annual Report of the Department of the Interior

Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of the Interior written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Library Statistics

Download or read book Public Library Statistics written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Endowment for the Humanities     Annual Report

Download or read book National Endowment for the Humanities Annual Report written by National Endowment for the Humanities and published by . This book was released on with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the U  S  Commissioner of Education

Download or read book Annual Report of the U S Commissioner of Education written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resources in education

Download or read book Resources in education written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Not Free  Not for All

Download or read book Not Free Not for All written by Cheryl Knott and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans tend to imagine their public libraries as time-honored advocates of equitable access to information for all. Through much of the twentieth century, however, many black Americans were denied access to public libraries or allowed admittance only to separate and smaller buildings and collections. While scholars have examined and continue to uncover the history of school segregation, there has been much less research published on the segregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South. In fact, much of the writing on public library history has failed to note these racial exclusions. In Not Free, Not for All, Cheryl Knott traces the establishment, growth, and eventual demise of separate public libraries for African Americans in the South, disrupting the popular image of the American public library as historically welcoming readers from all walks of life. Using institutional records, contemporaneous newspaper and magazine articles, and other primary sources together with scholarly work in the fields of print culture and civil rights history, Knott reconstructs a complex story involving both animosity and cooperation among whites and blacks who valued what libraries had to offer. African American library advocates, staff, and users emerge as the creators of their own separate collections and services with both symbolic and material importance, even as they worked toward dismantling those very institutions during the era of desegregation.

Book Who Gets a Childhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : William S. Bush
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0820337196
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Who Gets a Childhood written by William S. Bush and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the American juvenile justice system over the past century, the author tells the story of three cycles of scandal, reform, and retrenchment, each of which played out in ways that tended to extend the privileges of a protected childhood to white middle- and upper-class youth, while denying those protections to blacks, Latinos, and poor whites. On the forefront of both progressive and "get tough" reform campaigns, Texas has led national policy shifts in the treatment of delinquent youth to a surprising degree. Changes in the legal system have included the development of courts devoted exclusively to young offenders, the expanded legal application of psychological expertise, and the rise of the children's rights movement. At the same time, broader cultural ideas about adolescence have also changed. Yet the author demonstrates that as the notion of the teenager gained currency after World War II, white, middle-class teen criminals were increasingly depicted as suffering from curable emotional disorders even as the rate of incarceration rose sharply for black, Latino, and poor teens. He argues that despite the struggles of reformers, child advocates, parents, and youths themselves to make juvenile justice live up to its ideal of offering young people a second chance, the story of twentieth-century juvenile justice in large part boils down to the exclusion of poor and nonwhite youth from modern categories of childhood and adolescence.

Book Book Clubs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Long
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2003-08
  • ISBN : 9780226492612
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Book Clubs written by Elizabeth Long and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book clubs are everywhere these days. And women talk about the clubs they belong to with surprising emotion. But why are the clubs so important to them? And what do the women discuss when they meet? To answer questions like these, Elizabeth Long spent years observing and participating in women's book clubs and interviewing members from different discussion groups. Far from being an isolated activity, she finds reading for club members to be an active and social pursuit, a crucial way for women to reflect creatively on the meaning of their lives and their place in the social order.

Book The Polio Years in Texas

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  • Author : Heather Green Wooten
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1603443576
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Polio Years in Texas written by Heather Green Wooten and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1930s to the 1950s, in response to the rising epidemic of paralytic poliomyelitis (polio), Texas researchers led a wave of discoveries in virology, rehabilitative therapies, and the modern intensive care unit that transformed the field nationally. The disease threatened the lives of children and adults in the United States, especially in the South, arousing the same kind of fear more recently associated with AIDS and other dread diseases. Houston and Harris County, Texas, had the second-highest rate of infection in the nation, and the rest of the Texas Gulf Coast was particularly hard-hit by this debilitating illness. At the time, little was known, but eventually the medical responses to polio changed the medical landscape forever. Polio also had a sweeping cultural and societal effect. It engendered fearful responses from parents trying to keep children safe from its ravages and an all-out public information blitz aimed at helping a frightened population protect itself. The disease exacted a very real toll on the families, friends, healthcare resources, and social fabric of those who contracted the disease and endured its acute, convalescent, and rehabilitation phases.?In The Polio Years in Texas, Heather Green Wooten draws on extensive archival research as well as interviews conducted over a five-year period with Texas polio survivors and their families. This is a detailed and intensely human account of not only the epidemics that swept Texas during the polio years, but also of the continuing aftermath of the disease for those who are still living with its effects.Public health and medical professionals, historians, and interested general readers will derive deep and lasting benefits from reading The Polio Years in Texas.

Book The United States Department of Commerce Publications  Catalog and Index Supplement

Download or read book The United States Department of Commerce Publications Catalog and Index Supplement written by United States. Department of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Texas Women  150 Years of Trial and Triumph

Download or read book Black Texas Women 150 Years of Trial and Triumph written by Ruthe Winegarten and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Enriches and complicates African American and women’s history by connecting threads of race, gender, class, and region.” —Darlene Clark Hine, John A. Hannah Professor of History, Michigan State University Winner of the Liz Carpenter Award from the Texas State Historical Association Women of all colors have shaped families, communities, institutions, and societies throughout history, but only in recent decades have their contributions been widely recognized, described, and celebrated. This book presents the first comprehensive history of Black Texas women, a previously neglected group whose 150 years of continued struggle and some successes against the oppression of racism and sexism deserve to be better known and understood. Beginning with slave and free women of color during the Texas colonial period and concluding with contemporary women who serve in the Texas legislature and the United States Congress, Ruthe Winegarten organizes her history both chronologically and topically. Her narrative sparkles with the life stories of individual women and their contributions to the work force, education, religion, the club movement, community building, politics, civil rights, and culture. The product of extensive archival and oral research and illustrated with over 200 photographs, this groundbreaking work will be equally appealing to general readers and to scholars of women’s history, black history, American studies, and Texas history. “Occasionally a book comes along that is monumental in scope, overwhelming in amount of research, and so powerful in its impact as to be categorized at once as a lasting contribution to our knowledge of humankind. Black Texas Women is one of those rare books.” —The Journal of American History

Book Annual Message of Mayor of the City of Houston and Annual Reports

Download or read book Annual Message of Mayor of the City of Houston and Annual Reports written by Houston (Tex.) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing annual message of Mayor of the city of Houston with reports of all departments of the city and an analysis of the city.