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All deliberate speed: Segregation and exclusion in California schools, 1855-1975

Wollenberg, Charles

University of California Press

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

All Deliberate Speed: Segregation and Exclusion in California Schools, 1855-1975

History

Americas

Essays on the history of the San Francisco region include discussions of prehistoric culture, the Gold Rush, immigrants, colleges, and regional government

Golden Gate Metropolis: Perspectives on Bay Area History

Univ of California Inst of

Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century's Best American Journalism 
Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for "The San Francisco News" in 1936, three years before _The Grapes of Wrath_. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of California. Here he found once strong, independent farmers—the backbone of rural America—so reduced in dignity, beaten in spirit, sick, sullen, and defeated that they had been "cast down to a kind of subhumanity." He contrasts their misery with the hope offered by government resettlement camps, where self-help committees, child nurseries, quilting and sewing projects, and decent sanitation were restoring dignity and indeed saving lives. 
_The Harvest Gypsies_ gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck's masterpiece, _The Grapes of Wrath_. Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck's original articles.

The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to "the Grapes of Wrath"

Steinbeck, John.

Heyday Books

"Photographing the Second Gold Rush offers sixty photographs, most of them nevery before published, plus an introduction by noted historial Charles Wollenberg on Dorothea Lange and the Bay Area during these formative years."--from the back cover.

Photographing the 2nd Gold Rush: Dorothea Lange and the East Bay at War 1941-1945

Arts & Photography

Lange, Dorothea

Photography & Video

<div>"A first rate book. . . . It is such a pleasure to read a historical work by a sociologist who goes to the primary sources."--Gert H. Brieger, M.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine "Halpern has chosen a strategic research site, and has exploited it with theoretical precision, with a good sense of empirical strategy, and with exceptionally clear writing. We have learned a good deal about pediatrics, a good deal about specialization, and a great deal about the strategy of study of the origins of institutions."--Arthur L Stinchcombe, Northwestern University</div>

Marinship at War: Shipbuilding and Social Change in Wartime Sausalito

Western Heritage

Fred Korematsu, Iva Toguri (alias Tokyo Rose), Japanese Peruvians, and five thousand Americans who renounced their citizenship under duress: Rebel Lawyer tells the story of four key cases pertaining to the World War II incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry and the trial attorney who defended them. Wayne Collins made a somewhat unlikely hero. An Irish American lawyer with a volatile temper, Collins's passionate commitment to the nation's constitutional principles put him in opposition to not only the United States government but also groups that acquiesced to internment such as the national office of the ACLU and the leadership of the Japanese American Citizens League. Through careful research and legal analysis, Charles Wollenberg takes readers through each case, and offers readers an understanding of how Collins came to be the most effective defender of the rights and liberties of the West Coast's Japanese and Japanese American population. Wollenberg portrays Collins not as a white knight but as a tough, sometimes difficult man whose battles gave people of Japanese descent the foundation on which to construct their own powerful campaigns for redress.

Rebel Lawyer: Wayne Collins and the Defense of Japanese American Rights

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Heyday

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