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Iowa City Area Government News and MeetingsBook Talk - Water Tossing BouldersThe City of Iowa City's Office of Equity and Human Rights and the Iowa City Public Library partnered to host Book Talk: "Water Tossing Boulders" with author Adrienne Berard via Zoom.A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America's "separate but equal" doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for school desegregation. Why isn't what historian James Loewen called "the most racist Supreme Court decision in the twentieth century" better known? "Because we lost," says a descendent of the plaintiff. Unearthing one of the greatest stories never told, journalist Adrienne Berard...2023-05-031h 28
ABA Journal: Modern Law LibraryHow a Chinese-American family challenged school segregation in 1920s MississippiAlmost 30 years before Linda Brown and her parents took on the Topeka Board of Education in Brown v. Board of Education, Martha Lum's parents Jeu Gong and Katherine sued to try to stop Rosedale, Mississippi, from barring their Chinese-American children from the local "white" school. Their case, Gong Lum v. Rice, made it to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1927, but rather than granting them relief, the unanimous Supreme Court decision led to even stricter school segregation. For this episode of the Modern Law Library, in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the ABA Journal's Lee...2017-05-1726 min
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Title: Water Tossing Boulders
Subtitle: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
Author: Adrienne Berard
Narrator: Moe Egan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-15-16
Publisher: Beacon Press
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: History, 20th Century
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A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America's "separate but equal" doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest...2016-11-156h 04
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasWater Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South by Adrienne BeraPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South Author: Adrienne Berard Narrator: Moe Egan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from a...2016-11-1510 min
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasWater Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South by Adrienne BerardPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278762to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
Author: Adrienne Berard
Narrator: Moe Egan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Release date: November 15, 2016
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attend...2016-11-156h 05Your Story, Your Way: Full AudiobookWater Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South Audiobook by Adrienne BerardListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 278762
Title: Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
Author: Adrienne Berard
Narrator: Moe Egan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:05:00
Language: English
Release date: 11-15-16
Publisher: Beacon Press
Genres: History, Non-Fiction, North America, Social Science
Summary:
A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told
On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and he...2016-11-156h 05Discover Free Audiobook in History, AmericanWater Tossing Boulders by Adrienne Berard | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Water Tossing Boulders
Author: Adrienne Berard
Narrator: Moe Egan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-15-16
Publisher: Beacon Press
Genres: History, 20th Century
Summary:
A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America's "separate but equal" doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told.
On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister, Berda, were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and considered...2016-11-156h 04
Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceWater Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South by Adrienne BeraPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/278762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South Author: Adrienne Berard Narrator: Moe Egan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from a...2016-11-1510 min
Download Audiobook in Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsLove and War by Adrienne Berard | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Love and War
Author: Adrienne Berard
Narrator: Kathleen Gati
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-05-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
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Love and War is the unbelievable true story of one man's desperate hunt for Osama bin Laden and the woman who was fatally drawn to his side. From the backwoods of New York State, to the confines of an Afghan prison and a drug-fueled sex den in Mexico, the story charts the wild life of Jonathan "Jack" Keith Idema...2014-12-051h 49