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Nominated for an Academy Award, Freedom On My Mind tells the inspiring story of the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s when a handful of idealistic young activists believed they could change history, and did. Bob Moses, then a young Harvard student, recalls how we went to Mississippi, the center of massive resistance to integration in the South, to head the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's voter registration drive. Through interviews and news footage, we witness the growing confidence and courage of poverty stricken sharecroppers, maids and day-laborers as they confront jail, beatings and even murder for the simple right to vote. Freedom Summer helped transform political power in the South forever, paving the way for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Trace the women's rights movement from its roots in the abolition movement of the 1800s through the political, social, and economic advances of the 20th century. View hard-won victories through examples of social change ("Rosie the Riviter," World War II WASPs), legislation (ERA, Title IX), and the achievements of individual women.

In a time when power was determined by whether a person wore a skirt or a pair of pants, women across the United States were standing up to fill a void proclaiming, "We are women, hear us roar!" A powerful and moving documentary "Accomplished Women," shows not only accomplished women in the United States but successful, powerful women who are breaking the chattels of the expected to achieve their dreams. Interviews with Shirley Chisholm, the first black female senator, Dr. Virginia Apgar, Nikki Giovanni, a prominent African-American poet, and Helen Reddy, famous pop star and performing artist who penned, "I Am Woman," explore a wide range of pertinent issues of the day, such at attitude, image, and possibilities for women in the 1970s.

For over half a century, she endured threats and ridicule in her tireless quest for reform. She did not live to see the victory she helped bring about. Susan B. Anthony earned her place in history as an unstoppable crusader for woman's suffrage, helping found America's first major civil rights movement. BIOGRAPHY revisits her inspiring life, from her childhood in Massachusetts to cutting her teeth in activism as an anti-slavery crusader. But it was not until after the Civil War that she really began to make a name for herself, forming the National Women's Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Stanton. She would devote the rest of her life to the cause. Here, dramatic re-enactments bring the pivotal moments of her crusade to life including her 1872 arrest for daring to vote while historians reflect on her vital legacy. Relive one of the most influential and important campaigns in American history, and explore the drive and devotion of the remarkable woman at its head.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.Minny, Aibileen-s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody-s business, but she can-t mind her tongue, so she-s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women-mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends-view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don-t.

The American women’s movement was one of the most influential social movements of the twentieth century. Beginning with small numbers, the women’s movement eventually involved tens of thousands of women and men. Longstanding ideas and habits came under scrutiny as activists questioned and changed the nation’s basic institutions, including all branches of government, the workplace, and the family. Nancy MacLean’s introduction and collection of primary sources engage students with the most up-to-date scholarship in U.S. women’s history. The introduction traces the deep roots of the women’s movement and demonstrates the continuity from women’s activism in the labor movement and New Deal networks, the black civil rights movement, and the peace movement to the height of Second Wave feminism and into the Third Wave. The primary sources reflect the social breadth and depth of the movement. Dispelling the misconception that the American women’s movement was solely a white, middle-class cause, the documents include the voices of women of all ages, classes, and ethnicities. Topics addressed range from wage discrimination, peace activism, housework and childcare, sexuality, and reproductive rights to welfare, education, socialism, violence against women, and more. Document headnotes, a chronology of the women’s movement, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and index support student learning, classroom discussion, and further research.

Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show John Stuart Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today--the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of women in society. In his Introduction John Gray describes these essays as applications of Mill's doctrine of the Art of Life, as set out in A System of Logic. Using the resources of recent scholarship, he shows Mill's work to be far richer and subtler than traditional interpretations allow.

In a time when power was determined by whether a person wore a skirt or a pair of pants, women across the United States were standing up to fill a void proclaiming, "We are women, hear us roar!" A powerful and moving documentary "Accomplished Women," shows not only accomplished women in the United States but successful, powerful women who are breaking the chattels of the expected to achieve their dreams. Interviews with Shirley Chisholm, the first black female senator, Dr. Virginia Apgar, Nikki Giovanni, a prominent African-American poet, and Helen Reddy, famous pop star and performing artist who penned, "I Am Woman," explore a wide range of pertinent issues of the day, such at attitude, image, and possibilities for women in the 1970s.

Nominated for an Academy Award, Freedom On My Mind tells the inspiring story of the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s when a handful of idealistic young activists believed they could change history, and did. Bob Moses, then a young Harvard student, recalls how we went to Mississippi, the center of massive resistance to integration in the South, to head the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's voter registration drive. Through interviews and news footage, we witness the growing confidence and courage of poverty stricken sharecroppers, maids and day-laborers as they confront jail, beatings and even murder for the simple right to vote. Freedom Summer helped transform political power in the South forever, paving the way for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

For over half a century, she endured threats and ridicule in her tireless quest for reform. She did not live to see the victory she helped bring about. Susan B. Anthony earned her place in history as an unstoppable crusader for woman's suffrage, helping found America's first major civil rights movement. BIOGRAPHY revisits her inspiring life, from her childhood in Massachusetts to cutting her teeth in activism as an anti-slavery crusader. But it was not until after the Civil War that she really began to make a name for herself, forming the National Women's Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Stanton. She would devote the rest of her life to the cause. Here, dramatic re-enactments bring the pivotal moments of her crusade to life including her 1872 arrest for daring to vote while historians reflect on her vital legacy. Relive one of the most influential and important campaigns in American history, and explore the drive and devotion of the remarkable woman at its head.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.Minny, Aibileen-s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody-s business, but she can-t mind her tongue, so she-s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women-mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends-view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don-t.