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Works Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California
Wherever There's a Fight captures the sweeping story of how freedom and equality have grown in California, from the gold rush right up to the precarious post-9/11 era. The book tells the stories of the brave individuals who have stood up for their rights in the face of social hostility, physical violence, economic hardship, and political stonewalling. "A lesson in American history riding the 14 Mission bus"
Published in the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday edition, July 9, 2006, this insightful article about what you can see on an ordinary bus ride generated a dozen letters-to-the-editor from people who starting thinking differently about their fellow passengers, and themselves. "Soup, salad, suffrage: How women won their right to vote in California"
Published in the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday edition on March 4, 2007, this article draws on unique historical archives--letters, diaries, and even a menu from a working woman’s café--to put the fight for women’s suffrage in a new light. Before Rosa Parks
Published in the Daily Journal, February 8, 2007. While the Civil War was raging in the South, Charlotte Brown, the daughter of a former slave, fought for her right to a seat on the San Francisco streetcars. Archy Lee: Fleeing from Slavery in a Free State
The same year the United States Supreme Court issued its infamous Dred Scott decision, an 18-year-old black man named Archy Lee made a very different kind of history in California. His bid for freedom had the support of black pioneers in Sacramento and the Bay Area, the Colored Convention, and famed entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant. Oakland Post/February 20, 2008 http://postnewsgroup.net/2008/02/20/slave-archy-lee-rebuffed-by-state-court/ Unflagging Courage
When Charlotte Gabrielli, an elementary school student in Sacramento, California, obeyed her Jehovah's Witness parents and refused to salute the flag, not only was she expelled from school -- but her action led to a Supreme Court decision about religious freedom and patriotism. Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines
Development Debacle “merits more serious attention. Its depth of documentation is unparalleled in studies of the World Bank. Thanks to active helpers inside the Bank, the authors got most of the internal country and project reports on the Philippines from... the Bank... Finest effort to date.” --Multinational Monitor United Farm Workers Documentation Project
European Grape Boycott While the United Farm Workers union was waging a battle for justice in the grape vineyards of the sweltering San Joaquin Valley, their unlikely ambassador brought the grape boycott to the dockworkers of England and Scandinavia. http://www.farmworkermovement.us/essays/essays/054%20Elinson_Elaine.pdf |
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