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Martin, Rachel Louise

Summary: "An intimate portrait of a small Southern town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history--about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board--will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America. In graduate school, Rachel Martin volunteered with a Southern oral history project. One...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 MAR

Summary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHE

James, Kendra

Summary: "Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been the first African-American legacy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAMES, KENDRA JAM

Pishko, Jessica

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "A leading authority on sheriffs in America investigates the impunity with which sheriffs police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics. What should be of grave concern to us all is that sheriffs are wholly unaccountable. They do not report to federal, state, or local executives, and sheriffs' duties are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 363.28 PIS

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