Wherever there's a fight
Subtitle: how runaway slaves, suffragists, immigrants, strikers, and poets shaped civil liberties in California
By: Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi.
Contributors: Yogi, Stan.
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781597141147
Subjects: Minorities -- Civil rights -- California -- History; Civil rights -- California -- History; California -- Social conditions; California -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Staking our claim : the law in early California; title: In a strange land : the rights of immigrants; title: An injury to all : the rights of workers; title: Under color of law : the fight for racial equality; title: Holding up half the sky : the rights of women; title: The right not to remain silent : dissent; title: Mightier than the sword : the right to free expression; title: Keeping the faith : the right to religious freedom; title: That dare not speak its name : the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people; title: To the best of our ability : the rights of people with disabilities; title: The wrong side of the law : criminal justice; title: Behind barbed wire : World War II removal and incarceration.