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This book examines the intersection and interplay between
Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the
realities of prostitution in early-twentieth-century Philadelphia.
Arguing that any study of commercial sexual vice in a historical
context is difficult given the paucity of evidence, this work
instead focuses on reformers' construction of a cultural view of
prostitution, which Adams argues was based more upon their
perceptions of the trade than on reality itself. Looking at the
urban core of the city, Progressive reformers saw vice, immorality,
and decay-but as they frequently had little face-to-face
interaction with prostitutes plying their trade, they were forced
to construct culturally fueled archetypes to explain what they
believed they saw. Ultimately, reformers in Philadelphia were
battling against a rhetorical creation of their own design, and any
study of anti-vice reform in the early twentieth century tells us
more about the relationship between activists and the government
than it does about vice itself.
Title: Report of the special committee of the House of
Representatives of South Carolina, on so much of the message of His
Excellency, Gov. Jas. H. Adams, as relates to slavery and the slave
trade.Author: James H AdamsPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00331600CollectionID:
CTRG10168477-BPublicationDate: 18570101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 58 p.; 22 cm
After the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, no state fought
longer or harder to preserve segregated schools than Mississippi.
This massive resistance came to a crashing halt in October 1969
when the Supreme Court ruled in Alexander v. Holmes Board of
Education that ""the obligation of every school district is to
terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and
hereafter only unitary schools."" Thirty of the thirty-three
Mississippi districts named in the case were ordered to open as
desegregated schools after Christmas break. With little guidance
from state officials and no formal training or experience in
effective school desegregation processes, ordinary people were
thrown into extraordinary circumstances. However, their stories
have been largely ignored in desegregation literature. Based on
meticulous archival research and oral history interviews with over
one hundred parents, teachers, students, principals,
superintendents, community leaders, and school board members,
Natalie G. Adams and James H. Adams explore the arduous and complex
task of implementing school desegregation. How were bus routes
determined? Who lost their position as principal? Who was assigned
to what classes? Without losing sight of the important macro forces
in precipitating social change, the authors shift attention to how
the daily work of ""just trying to have school"" helped shape the
contours of school desegregation in communities still living with
the decisions made fifty years ago.
After the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, no state fought
longer or harder to preserve segregated schools than Mississippi.
This massive resistance came to a crashing halt in October 1969
when the Supreme Court ruled in Alexander v. Holmes Board of
Education that ""the obligation of every school district is to
terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and
hereafter only unitary schools."" Thirty of the thirty-three
Mississippi districts named in the case were ordered to open as
desegregated schools after Christmas break. With little guidance
from state officials and no formal training or experience in
effective school desegregation processes, ordinary people were
thrown into extraordinary circumstances. However, their stories
have been largely ignored in desegregation literature. Based on
meticulous archival research and oral history interviews with over
one hundred parents, teachers, students, principals,
superintendents, community leaders, and school board members,
Natalie G. Adams and James H. Adams explore the arduous and complex
task of implementing school desegregation. How were bus routes
determined? Who lost their position as principal? Who was assigned
to what classes? Without losing sight of the important macro forces
in precipitating social change, the authors shift attention to how
the daily work of ""just trying to have school"" helped shape the
contours of school desegregation in communities still living with
the decisions made fifty years ago.
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