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Social action

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Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly

Type: BOOK
Author: Fleischner, Jennifer
( African American , Friendship , General , History , Slavery , Social action , Women's History )

Social Action - The remarkable story of the friendship between a First Lady and a former slave.A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the antibellum South and the Civil War. Historian Jennifer Fleischner provides a riveting work of scholarship that reveals the legacy of slavery and sheds new light on the Lincoln White House. This work challenges much of what we think and know about nineteenth-century American color consciousness.

Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly

Type: BOOK
Author: Fleischner, Jennifer
( Friendship , General , History , Slavery , Social action , Women's History )

Social Action: This remarkable story of the friendship between a First Lady and a former slave provides new insight into race, women's lives, and american society in the nineteenth century. It is a vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the antibellum South and the Civil War. Historian Jennifer Fleischner's riveting work of scholarship reveals the legacy of slavery and sheds new light on the Lincoln White House, bringing to life a mesmerizing, intimate aspect of Civil War history...

Servant or Sucker?

Type: DVD
Author:
( General , Poverty , Social action , Social Justice , Theology And Doctrine )

Wise and compassionate ways to help the poor.This study helps viewers discern appropriate, Christ centered actions when it comes to addressing poverty on a personal or organizational level. 5 sessions, approx. 10 - 15 minutes each

Sweatshop Warriors

Type: BOOK
Author: Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
( General , Social action , UMW )

Immigrant Women Workers take on the Global Factory

The Betrayal of Work

Type: BOOK
Author: Shulman, Beth
( Economy , General , Government , Labor Issues , Poverty , Social action , Social Justice )

Social Action: How low-wage jobs fail 30 million Americans and their families. Beth Shulman's book offers a far-reaching argument about what must be done to restore fairness to America. This book became one of the most influential policy studies about economic life in the United States. It combines personal vignettes, social statistics, and policy prescription in a wonderfully readable manner.

Water Wars

Type: BOOK
Author: Vandana Shiva
( General , Social action , UMW )

Water Wars celebrates the spiritual and traditional role water has played in communities throughout history, and warns that water privatization threatens cultures and livelihoods worldwide.

William Sloane Coffin: A Lover's Quarrel with America

Type: VHS
Author:
( General , Poverty , Social action , Social Justice , War , William Sloan )

William Sloan Coffin - preacher, pastor and "conscience of the nation" prophetic voice for progressive religion in America and in the world human rights of all kinds of all people, peace and sanity in place of war and nuclear madness. "after 9/11 we had the worlds good will and we have squandered it! I'm worried that we have as self-righteousness now that comes from feeling unfairly urt. We could have expanded our horizons, widened our hearts, to understand that a lot of people in the...