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Before Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the judge, she was a young Jewish girl growing up in Brooklyn, inspired by books, past female trailblazers, and her mother to make the world a better, more just place to be. So even when people turned her away--for being a girl and for being Jewish; she never stopped fighting for equal treatment for everyone by pushing back against unjust laws and the beliefs around them.

"The United States has always been a nation of immigrants--and now you can learn all about the amazing people who've helped shape it! . . . From Levi Strauss to Madeleine Albright, discover how these dedicated and creative people made their mark--and how you can follow in their footsteps"--OCLC.

With accumulated wisdom and sharp-eyed clarity, Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me And Has Failed addresses the joys and hardships of being an older Black woman in contemporary, ?periracial? America. Award-winning author Kim McLarin utilizes deeply personal experiences to illuminate the pain and power of aging, Blackness and feminism, in the process capturing the endless cycle of progress and backlash that has long shaped race and gender.

This compact volume offers a broad selection of the most important documents in American history: the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which ratified women's right to vote; the Supreme Court's decision on Brown v. Board of Education; and the "Heroism and Horror" portion of the 9/11 Commission Report; as well as presidential speeches, Acts and Declarations of Congress, essays, letters, and much more.

This is the untold story of the women military aviators of the 1970s and 1980s who kicked open the door to fly in combat in 1993?along with the story of the women who paved the way before them.

Private Elisha Stockwell?s recollection of his Civil War service, in the Union Army, starting at fifteen years old. He lied about his age to join Company I, Fourteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment and saw action at Shiloh, Iuka, Cornith, Vicksburg, and Kennesaw Mountain. The text is written in his own words with editing for context. He makes us see and experience what a common soldier saw and felt in the Civil War.

America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution-- or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy.

Learn about Ginsburg's childhood, early career, and appointment to the highest court in the land. This early reader also features key moments from some of the cases Ginsburg argued before the Supreme Court, including the case for gender equality.

"In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American defectors from the Republican Party. At the time, most African Americans lived in poverty in the South, denied citizenship rights and terrorized by white violence. But Roosevelt's victory created the opportunity for a group of African American intellectuals and activists to join his administration as racial affairs experts. Known as the Black Cabinet, they organized themselves into an unofficial council. They innovated antidiscrimination policy, documented the New Deal's inequalities, led programs that lifted people out of poverty and paved the way for greater federal accountability to African Americans and a greater black presence in government. But the Black Cabinet never won official recognition from Roosevelt, and with his death, it disappeared from history"--Provided by publisher.