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English
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"Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting 'lost boys' to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. When a group of seniors bring loner Darren Eberheart into the social scene,...
Publisher
Why Not Productions ; France 2 Cinema ; Orange Studio
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France during WWII, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas, an institution specializing in mental illness. Although he does not suffer any psychological causes for his painful symptoms, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The activist and TED speaker Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, her life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization.
At the age of five, Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded...
Author
Series
Lamar memorial lectures volume no. 48
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"On March 13, 1956, ninety-nine members of the United States Congress promulgated the Declaration of Constitutional Principles, popularly known as the Southern Manifesto. Reprinted here, the Southern Manifesto formally stated opposition to the landmark United State Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, and the emergent civil rights movement. This statement allowed the white South to prevent Brown's immediate fullscale implementation...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Neil Foley examines the complex interplay among regional, national, and international politics that plagued the efforts of Mexican Americans and African Americans to find common ground in ending employment discrimination and school segregation.
18) Fall from grace
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The surreal and shocking world of the controversial cult leader Reverend Fred Phelps and his hate group. Includes interviews and rare Phelps footage and allows viewers to reexamine the quintessentially American right of free speech.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
"In 1954, one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the twentieth Century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. Although known as Brown v. Board of Education, the ruling applied not just to the case of Linda Carol Brown, an African American third grader refused entry to an all-white Topeka, Kansas school, but to cases involving children in South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and Washington, DC"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Explains the history of segregation in the United States and cases that tested the law allowing "separate but equal" treatment, including the five cases that came together as Brown v. Board of Education.
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